Hill House, Helensburgh.

Upper Colquhoun Street, Helensburgh, G84 9AJ

The Hill House is considered to be Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s domestic masterpiece. Working to a commission from Glasgow book publisher Walter Blackie, up-and-coming...

Bourton House Garden

Gloucestershire

Bourton House Garden opened to the public for the first time on a single Sunday in 1987 in aid of the National Garden Scheme. Twenty years later, the garden received the...

Alnwick Castle

Northumberland

Alnwick Castle is a castle and stately home in the town of Alnwick in the English county of Northumberland. It is the seat of the Duke of Northumberland, built following...

Icworth House

Suffolk

Ickworth House is a country house near Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England. It is a neoclassical building set in parkland. The house is in the care of the National Trust

Iford Manor and the Peto Garden

Iford, Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire. BA15 2BA

The Iford valley has been occupied since Roman times and the manor house sits idyllically by the Frome river in the steep-sided valley. Iford Manor is mediaeval in...

Big Pit Blaenavon

Blaenavon NP4 9XP

Prepare to be lowered 90 metres (300 feet) down the Big Pit mineshaft for our famous underground tour - a captivating journey around a section of original underground...

Hay Literary Festival

Wales

For 25 years Hay Festival has brought together writers from around the world to debate and share stories at its festival in the staggering beauty of the Welsh Borders....

South Downs Way - National Trail

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...

Hellens Manor

Much Marcle near Ledbury

Hellens Manor remains a unique family home.  It contains a variety of period furnishings, paintings and decorations dating back to when it was first granted to the de...

Mablethorpe North End Beach

Lincolnshire

Large sandy beach and gently shelving beach, with parking close by at the Mablethorpe Seal Sanctuary. Uncrowded, evern in summer. Safe for swimming, Lots of space for...

Wrekin

Shropshire

The Wrekin is made of very ancient ‘Uriconian’ volcanic rocks (though its shape does not in fact come from having been ‘a volcano’). The Ercall Quarry also has...