Information on St Mary Magdalene Church, Cobham, Kent, home of the superb Cobham Brasses, with a church history, beautiful ...

Information on the Iron Age hill fort of Badbury Clump, near Faringdon, Oxfordshire, with a site history, what to see, ...

Information on the outstanding medieval church of St Peter & St Paul, Appledore, Kent, with a church history, beautiful ...

Information on All Saints Church, Tudeley, Kent, famous for its twelve stained glass windows designed by artist Marc Chagall, with a church history, beautiful photos, what to see, and visiting ...

The beautiful parish church of St Mary in the Marsh stands on the site of an earlier Saxon building made of wood. That early church was known as Siwold's Circe, which loosely translates as a burial ...

Moonshine near Llanarth, Ceredigion, sleeps four in two bedrooms. The living areas in this single-storey lodge consist of an open-plan kitchen, dining area and sitting area with a gas oven and hob, ...

1 Hull House Cottage rests in Hellifield, sleeping four people in two bedrooms. The living areas in the property consist of an open-plan living area with a kitchen with an electric oven, ceramic hob, ...

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 ...

During the Napoleonic Wars, the British blockaded the European continent, hoping to isolate the Napoleonic Empire and bring economic hardship to the French. One result of this blockade was that goods ...

Find out much more about English Castles and stately homes ...

We know very little of the first few hundred years of the Anglo-Saxon, or "English", era, primarily because the invaders were an illiterate people. Our earliest records of them are little more than ...

When Queen Anne died without any heirs, the English throne was offered to her nearest Protestant relative, George of Hanover, who thus became George I of England. Throughout the long reign of George, ...