Crinan Canal

Crinan, Argyll

Every year nearly 2000 boats make the journey along the 9 miles of "Britain's most beautiful shortcut". Once an important commercial connection with the Western Isles...

Brogdale Farm

Faversham

For a great food day out in Kent with healthy eating explore the Brogdale Farm orchards with fruit trees ranging from apples and pears to plums and cherries to cobnuts,...

Mull of Galloway RSPB and lighthouse

At the Mull of Galloway you can climb the Lighthouse, visit the Exhibition of Lighthouse History, experience the Vintage Engines and Foghorn, walk around the RSPB...

Hadrians Wall

Northumberland

Hadrian's Wall Country   The emperor Hadrian visited Britain in 122AD when he found ‘the Britons could not be kept under Roman control’, a remark which suggests that...

Caernarfon Castle

Caernarfon, Gwynedd

A brute of a fortress. Caernarfon Castle’s pumped-up appearance is unashamedly muscle-bound and intimidating. Picking a fight with this massive structure would have been...

Porthcurno Telegraph Museum

Porthcurno, Penzance

Porthcurno valley, in the far west of Cornwall, was the hub of international cable communications from 1870-1970 and a training college for the communications industry...

Wrest Park

Silsoe, Bedfordshire

After decades behind virtually closed doors, its treasures overgrown and largely unknown, English Heritage is reviving one of Britain's largest and most important...

Conkers

Derbyshire

CONKERS, the hands on experience in the heart of the National Forest, is open all year round and is only five miles from Junction 11 of the M42. Suitable for a day out...

National Botanic Gardens

near Llanarthe

The Garden covers 568 acres of Carmarthenshire countryside and includes a nature reserve as well as a formal garden, with Lord Foster’s Great Glasshouse as its...

Jane Austen's House Museum

Hampshire

 Home of the author Jane Austen

Cragside National Trust

Northumberland

Discover the world of Lord Armstrong – Victorian inventor, innovator and landscape genius. Cragside house was a wonder of its age. Built on a rocky crag, it is crammed...

Shepherd Neame

Faversham, Kent

 The Shepherd Neame Visitor Centre is the start of the guided tour of Britain's oldest brewer.  See the traditional mash tuns; taste natural mineral water from the...