Montacute, Somerset
Montacute in Somerset, is a village of exceptional interest. The buildings are almost entirely of golden coloured Ham Hill stone, including Montacute House, one of the finest Elizabethan houses in Britain. Th...
Marlborough, Wiltshire
Marlborough is a market town in Wiltshire, situated on the A4, the old London to Bath Road. It is famous for its High Street, one of the widest in Europe and is lined with buildings full of character from diffe...
Avebury, Wiltshire
Avebury is a place of mystery and is one of the most important prehistoric sites in Europe. Larger than Stonehenge, covering twenty-nine acres and surrounded by an earth bank over fifteen feet high, this Neolit...
Wellow, Somerset
Wellow is a small village of about 500 inhabitants, four miles south of the City of Bath. It has many warm, golden coloured cottages and is situated in a conservation area. The Manor House in the High Street,...
Norton St. Philip, Somerset
Norton St. Philip is a small attractive village, only six miles from the City of Bath. From about 1230 until the dissolution of the Monasteries by Henry VIII in 1539, it belonged to the Carthusian monks at Hin...
Farleigh Hungerford Castle, Farleigh Hungerford, Somerset
Farleigh Hungerford Castle, near Bath, is on a hillside above the Somerset bank of the River Frome, the other bank being in Wiltshire. Originally a manor house, it was sold to Thomas Hungerford in 1369, who pr...
Avoncliff, near Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire
Avoncliff is a small, picturesque village of less than thirty homes and a pub, nestling in the Limpley Stoke Valley, one and a half miles from Bradford on Avon. At this point, the Kennet and Avon Canal crosses ...
Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire
Bradford on Avon is a small attractive town in Wiltshire, eight miles from Bath. Its name means 'broad ford', which, in the Middle Ages, was replaced by a stone bridge across the River Avon. This dates from the...
Bishops Cannings, Wiltshire
Bishops Cannings is a small village of only 1,500 inhabitants, in the Vale of Pewsey, Wiltshire, two and a half miles north east of Devizes. The Kennet and Avon Canal, with its famous swing bridge, is close to ...
St. Albans, Hertfordshire
St. Albans is a city that once was the largest Roman town in Britain, known as Verulamium. It has Roman remains dating back over 2,000 years. Only twenty miles north of London, it is a compact city with a magni...
Westward Ho! Devon
Westward Ho! is a popular seaside resort in north Devon, near Bideford and has the distinction of being the only place name in the British Isles that has an exclamation mark in its official name. It has a long...
Lustleigh, Dartmoor, Devon
Lustleigh is a small village on Dartmoor in Devon, nestling in the Wrey Valley, eight miles north west of Newton Abbot. Its deeply thatched pretty granite cottages lie on moorland, surrounded by huge granite b...
Bickleigh, Devon
Bickleigh is an attractive riverside village, four miles downstream of Tiverton on the main road to Exeter. Photographs of its thatched cottages, situated by a five arched stone bridge, are often chosen to ador...
Appledore, Devon
Appledore is a quaint fishing village in North Devon, situated where the Rivers Taw and Torridge meet. Sailing is very popular and the view at low tide across a vast spread of sandbanks to the open sea, is par...
Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire
Long Crendon is an attractive village with its many sixteenth and seventeenth century thatched cottages, timber-framed houses and mellow stone walls. It was once an important lace-making centre. Needle-making, ...
Brill, Buckinghamshire
Brill is situated on a hill six hundred feet above the Vale of Aylesbury and commands magnificent views into Oxfordshire. On top of the hill, stands one of the oldest post-mills in England, dating from 1689. It...
Turvey, Bedfordshire
Turvey is a pretty village seven miles west of Bedford. Many of the buildings were built by the Lord of the Manor in the nineteenth century, from locally quarried limestone. The history of Turvey is dominated b...
Silsoe, Bedfordshire
Silsoe is a small village south of Bedford. It has a long High Street, lined by brick built cottages right on the pavement. At the end is the George Hotel, a Georgian coaching inn, which was a staging post betw...
Pavenham, Bedfordshire
Pavenham is a picturesque village north-west of Bedford, where the traditional craft of rushwork is still carried on. Matting made in Pavenham was supplied to the Houses of Parliament. The common bulrush has be...
Petworth, Sussex
Petworth is a small town in West Sussex, most famous for Petworth House, the grand stately home and subject of Turner's paintings.
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