Rodmell, Sussex
Rodmell is a small village in the South Downs of Sussex, four miles south of Lewis and a few miles north of the coast at Newhaven. It has many lovely old buildings. The Abergavenny Arms is a traditional famil...
Cookham, Berkshire
Cookham is a village in Berkshire in a lovely setting on the River Thames, four miles north of Maidenhead, between Marlow and Taplow. The village is distinct from Cookham Rise, which has a railway station and ...
D.H. Lawrence and Eastwood, Nottinghamshire
Where was D.H. Lawrence born and what was the greatest influence and inspiration for his work?
Eastwood is a former coal mining town, eight miles north-west of Nottingham. It was important in the 19th centur...
Portchester, Hampshire
Portchester is a suburb of Portsmouth, four miles from the City. In medieval times, it was a small village of only a few hundred inhabitants, but is now part of the expanding conurbation along the main A27 roa...
Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire
Clifton Hampden is a quiet, attractive village on the River Thames, less than five miles from Abingdon. The 1885 edition of Charles Dickens's, Dictionary of the Thames, stated, 'this picturesque little village...
Ewelme, Oxfordshire
Ewelme is an unspoilt historic village in the Chiltern Hills. It is situated fourteen miles south of Oxford and four miles from Wallingford. It is built on three south-facing terraces of a fold in the hills. At...
Richmond Castle and Town, Richmond, Yorkshire
Richmond is a market town in North Yorkshire, one of the most dramatically beautiful towns in the north of England. It is not to be confused with Richmond in Surrey, nor fifty-seven other "Richmonds" throughout...
Thornton, Birthplace of the Brontës, Yorkshire
The Brontë sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne, the famous 19th century novelists, together with their brother, Branwell, were all born in Thornton village, near Bradford, West Yorkshire. Their father, Patrick, ...
Top Withens and Brontë Waterfalls, Haworth Moor, Yorkshire
The ruins of Top Withens, high up on the windswept heather covered Yorkshire moorlands of Haworth Moor, both inspire and depress. Believed by many to be the setting for Emily Brontë’s classic novel, Wuthering H...
Cobham, Kent
Cobham is a picturesque village, four miles from Gravesend, close to the M25 and M2 motorways. Significantly, it is within walking distance of Higham, where Charles Dickens lived. He often walked to the village...
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...
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...
Horsmonden, Kent
Horsmonden is a village eight miles east of Royal Tunbridge Wells in the High Weald of Kent, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The word "Weald", is Old English for forest. Kent is known as the Garden of En...
Appledore, Kent
Appledore is a small attractive village, situated between Tenterden and New Romney, on the edge of the Romney Marshes in Kent. It has medieval houses and a 14th century church. It is believed that the name is d...
Chagford, Dartmoor, Devon
Chagford is a small historic market town on the edge of Dartmoor, four miles from Moretonhampstead. The name, Chagford, is derived from the word "Chag", meaning gorse or broom. "Ford" relates to the crossing pl...
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...
Yattendon, Berkshire
Yattendon is a small village, easily accessible from junctions 12 or 13 of the M4 motorway, seven miles north-east of Newbury in Berkshire. It has an interesting history. In the Domesday Book survey of 1086, it...
Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire
Great Missenden is a large village in the Chiltern Hills, between Amersham and Wendover in Buckinghamshire, in the valley of the Misbourne River. It is popular with London commuters, having a forty minute direc...
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...
Welford-on-Avon, Warwickshire
Welford-on-Avon is situated on the meandering River Avon, which embraces the village on three sides. A narrow stone bridge named the Binton Bridge, crosses the river to the main street, off which lies the villa...