All Saints Church, Lydd, is known as The Cathedral on the Marsh for its exceptional size and grandeur. The church stands on ...

Saint Dunstan is fairly unusual among Anglo-Saxon saints in that we know where, if not precisely when, he was born. Dunstan was born in the village of Baltonsborough, Somerset, just a few miles south ...

3 Old Pharmacy Court in Kendal can sleep four people in two bedrooms. The open-plan living area includes a kitchen housing an electric oven and induction hob, microwave, fridge/freezer, dishwasher, ...

This mid-terrace cottage rests in Carmarthen, Wales and can sleep four people in three bedrooms. Llys-Yr-Onnen is a characterful, single-storey cottage resting in Carmarthen, Wales. Hosting three ...

This mid-terrace cottage rests in Boroughbridge, North Yorkshire and can sleep four people in two bedrooms. Roecliffe is a mid-terrace cottage resting in Boroughbridge, North Yorkshire. Hosting two ...

Tea, that most quintessential of English drinks, is a relative latecomer to British shores. Although the custom of drinking tea dates back to the third millennium BC in China, it was not until the mid ...

6 Canal Road, Ripon, North Yorkshire, sleeps 6 guests in 3 bedrooms. 6 Canal Road is set over four floors, with the living areas including a kitchen/diner with electric oven and hob, microwave, fridge ...

The [Napoleonic] war had caused distress, the price of food had risen to a very high point, and wages had fallen because the supply of labour was greater than the demand; the more so because the ...

Standing on the bank of The Lake in a historic landscape below Blenheim Palace is a Cedar of Lebanon known as The Harry Potter Tree for its role in the 2007 film Harry Potter and the Order of the ...

As its name suggests, the chief characteristic of Perpendicular architecture is the emphasis on strong vertical lines, seen most markedly in window tracery and wall panelling. Roof vaulting became ...

Mote of Mark is a conical hill overlooking the Rough Firth near the village of Rockcliffe in Dumfries and Galloway. On the hilltop is a Dark Ages fort occupied in the 5th and 6th centuries. The fort ...

When poet Robert Burns died in 1796 his body lay in state at Midsteeple, just off the High Street in Dumfries. From there he was carried to the churchyard of St Michael's Church, the parish church of ...