Cooling, Kent
Cooling is a small, remote and windswept village, overlooking the North Kent Marshes. The northern boundary of the Thames Estuary is two miles away and the chimneys of Canvey Island, Essex, can be seen on the h...
Brasted, Kent
Brasted is an attractive village in Kent and has a number of 18th century houses and several antique and art shops. It is situated on the A25 main road between Westerham and Sundridge. The M25 motorway follows ...
Ayot St. Lawrence, Hertfordshire
Ayot St. Lawrence is a picturesque village, situated a few miles from the suburbs of North London and yet can only be approached by narrow country lanes.
The village’s most famous inhabitant, was George Bern...
Countisbury, Exmoor, Devon
Countisbury is a hamlet, approximately two miles east of Lynmouth, on the Exmoor coast in north Devon. It is close to the border with Somerset and is fourteen miles west of Minehead. Countisbury is renowned for...
Widecombe-in-the-Moor, Dartmoor, Devon
Widecombe-in-the-Moor is probably Dartmoor’s best known village. This is mainly due to the song, ‘Widecombe Fair’, of which the chorus contains the phrase, “Old Uncle Tom Cobley and all”. This has become part o...
Aldbury, Hertfordshire
Aldbury, situated on the edge of the Chiltern Hills, in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty close to Tring, is one of the most attractive villages in Hertfordshire. It is regarded as a chocolate box village a...
East Meon, Hampshire
East Meon is a small village in Hampshire, the highest one in the Meon Valley, surrounded by the South Downs National Park. It is situated five miles west of Petersfield and twenty miles from the South Coast at...
Aldworth, Berkshire
Aldworth is a prime example of a fascinating English village. In a tiny hamlet, who would expect to find giants, the ashes of the author of, ‘We will remember them’, one of the best pubs in the country and link...
Hambledon, Hampshire
Hambledon, a small village in the Meon Valley in Hampshire, is known to cricket enthusiasts the world over as the “Cradle of Cricket”. The game of cricket had been played in Southern England for many years befo...
Steventon, Hampshire
Steventon is a small village, seven miles south west of Basingstoke, close to junction 7 of the M3 motorway. Jane Austen, the novelist, was born in the rectory in Steventon in 1775, where her father was the rec...
Waverley Abbey, Farnham, Surrey
Waverley Abbey is two miles south-east of Farnham town centre, situated on the flood plain of the River Wey. The ruins are in the care of English Heritage and are open to the public. Waverley Abbey was founded ...
Stanton, Gloucestershire
Stanton, in northern Gloucestershire, is a beautiful Cotswold village that does not attract the publicity that Snowshill, Broadway and other Cotswold tourist locations enjoy. It is a quiet totally uncommerciali...
Box Hill, Surrey
Box Hill is on the North Downs and is easily accessible from the A24 main road, near Dorking in Surrey. Box Hill and West Humble railway station, which provides direct trains from London, is within a short walk...
Snowshill, Cotswolds, Gloucestershire
Snowshill is a small secluded village of honey coloured Cotswold stone cottages, set high on an escarpment, three miles above Broadway and the Vale of Evesham. It is considered to be one of the prettiest Cotswo...
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...
Kennet and Avon Canal, Pewsey Wharf to New Mill, Wiltshire
Pewsey Wharf in Wiltshire, on the Kennet and Avon Canal, is almost one mile from Pewsey town itself and seven miles south of Marlborough. The Canal was once a busy industrial canal, but is now tranquil. The W...
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 ...
Eastwood, Nottinghamshire
Eastwood is a former coal mining town, eight miles north-west of Nottingham. It was important in the 19th century as a major producer of coal, but the last pit closed in 1985. The majority of the men who lived ...
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...