Virginia Water, Surrey
Virginia Water Lake is on the southern edge of Windsor Great Park and is six miles from Windsor town centre. It is easily reached from the M25 motorway and there is a large car park close to the A30 main road. ...
Chastleton, Oxfordshire
Chastleton, near Moreton-in-Marsh, Oxfordshire, is a very small village in the lovely Evenlode Valley in the Cotswolds. The main attraction of this village is Chastleton House, a rare and probably the most comp...
Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire
Chalfont St. Giles is a pretty village with a village pond in Buckinghamshire, 25 miles from London, on the edge of the Chiltern Hills. Chalfont means "chalk spring". It is in the valley of the River Misbourne ...
Hampton Court Palace, East Molesey, Surrey
Hampton Court Palace is one of England's most popular tourist attractions. A visitor to the magnificent buildings and gardens, can experience over 500 years of English history. Situated on the banks of the Ri...
Cowleaze Wood, near Stokenchurch, Oxfordshire
Cowleaze Wood, three miles west of Stokenchurch in Buckinghamshire, is a wood renowned for its bluebell displays in late April and May. It is easily reached from the A40 road, near the television mast and has a...
Hungerford, Berkshire
Hungerford is a small historic market town, nine miles west of Newbury, situated in the North Wessex Downs, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The name, Hungerford, originates from the Saxon name, "Hanging ...
Kintbury, Berkshire
Kintbury is a small village, but has a railway station providing services to Reading and London. It is situated between the Lambourn Downs to the north and Hampshire Downs to the south. In the Sunday Times news...
Kennet and Avon Canal, Hungerford Wharf to Kintbury, Berkshire
Hungerford Wharf is a good place to start a walk along the Kennet and Avon Canal towpath, which leads out of the town into the surrounding Wiltshire countryside. Hungerford is a market town, nine miles west of ...
Kennet and Avon Canal, Newbury Wharf to Marsh Benham, Berkshire
Newbury is an ideal start for a walk along the Kennet and Avon Canal. The walk along the towpath is very pretty. The town prospered from the canal transporting cloth from the various weaving houses and later, g...
Kennet and Avon Canal, Aldermaston Wharf to Woolhampton, Berkshire
Aldermaston Wharf, on the Kennet and Avon Canal between Newbury and Reading, was once a major trade centre. Two hundred years ago, goods were transported from here all over the world. Horse-drawn barges carried...
Hambleden, Buckinghamshire
Hambleden is an attractive Buckinghamshire village in the Chiltern Hills, three miles north-east of Henley-on-Thames and a short distance from the River Thames. It is one of the prettiest villages in the Chilte...
Remenham, Berkshire
Remenham is a hamlet on the Berkshire bank of the River Thames, east of Henley-on-Thames. The name means "home of the ravens" and is probably derived from the Saxon god, Woden, whose symbol was the raven. Most ...
Much Hadham, Hertfordshire
Much Hadham is regarded by many, as the most attractive village in Hertfordshire. It has a long main street, filled with well preserved Elizabethan cottages and fine quality gentlemen’s residences of the 18th a...
Quainton, Buckinghamshire
Quainton is a small village, six miles north-west of Aylesbury. The Old English spelling, Cwene-tun, means Queen's manor. The half-timbered thatched cottages for which the village is known, line The Green in th...
The Claydons, Buckinghamshire
The Claydons is a cluster of four small villages, six miles south of Buckingham, which grew up around Claydon House and the Estate, to house the workers and traditional craftsmen needed to support a farming com...
Sandwich, Kent
Sandwich in Kent, is a well preserved medieval town, rich in 16th and 17th century architecture. It is now two miles from the sea, but was once one of the most important naval bases in England. Before the River...
Whitstable, Kent
Whitstable is a seaside resort on the north coast of Kent. The name is a combination of ancient British words for salt (whit) and market (stable). Oyster fishing on this coast, has been important since Saxon ti...
Osterley Park and House, Isleworth
Osterley Park and House is one of the last surviving country estates in London. It forms one of the largest open spaces in West London, being 140 acres of landscape park and farmland. It is only ten minutes wal...
Uffington and White Horse Hill, Oxfordshire
Uffington is a village in the Vale of the White Horse, four miles south of Faringdon and seven miles west of Wantage. Although below the Berkshire Downs, it is now within Oxfordshire. The village is built almos...
East Hendred, Oxfordshire
East Hendred is a pretty Oxfordshire village, four miles east of Wantage, below the Downs, in the Vale of the White Horse. It does not have a through road, as it is south of the A417 and consequently, has windi...