Great Ayton, Yorkshire
Great Ayton is a large village, five miles south-west of Guisborough, on the banks of the River Leven in North Yorkshire. It is famous for its connections with James Cook and his family. He later became Captain...
Thornton-le-Dale, Yorkshire
Thornton-le-Dale, also known as Thornton Dale, is a small picturesque village on the edge of the North York Moors National Park, three miles east of Pickering. It is situated on the A170 main road between Thirs...
Eyam, Plague Village, Peak District, Derbyshire
Eyam, known as the Plague Village, is in a beautiful setting, eight hundred feet up in the heart of the Derbyshire Peak District. It is situated six miles north of Bakewell. When visiting Eyam, it is difficult ...
Castleton, Peak District, Derbyshire
Castleton is one of the most beautifully situated villages in the Peak District in Derbyshire. It is at the head of the Hope Valley, sixteen miles from Sheffield and can be approached through the dramatic limes...
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...
Windsor, Berkshire
Windsor is a town twenty miles west of London, on the River Thames. It is situated close to Runnymede, where the Magna Carta was sealed and Eton, home of the famous Eton College, which can be reached across the...
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...
Brenchley, Kent
Brenchley is a village situated nine miles east of Royal Tunbridge Wells, in the Weald of Kent and in the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, amongst orchards and farmland. Hops have been grown in th...
North Bovey, Dartmoor, Devon
North Bovey is a lovingly preserved Devon village, eleven miles from Exeter, on the east side of Dartmoor. It is on a hillside above the River Bovey, from which it gets its name. The village consists of thatc...
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...
Wendover, Buckinghamshire
Wendover is a small market town at the foot of the Chiltern Hills, five miles south-east of Aylesbury, on the A413 main road. It has good rail and road links to London and is a popular commuter location, enjoyi...
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...
Biddenden, Kent
Biddenden displays perfect examples of English architecture, from late medieval times to the 17th century. The well preserved timber-framed houses line the road, which links the churchyard with a small green. H...
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...
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...
Lenham, Kent
Lenham in Kent, is a village nine miles east of Maidstone, situated close to the main A20 London to Folkestone road. It is at the foot of the North Downs and the Pilgrims Way is on the Downs above the village. ...
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...
Bidford-on-Avon, Warwickshire
Bidford-on-Avon is a large riverside village on the banks of the River Avon, seven miles downriver from Stratford-upon-Avon and twenty-five miles away from Birmingham. For over one hundred years, residents from...