Swanage, Dorset
Swanage in Dorset, is a small popular seaside resort, with a beautiful setting facing east to Swanage Bay in the Purbeck Hills, between Ballard Down and Peveril Point. The golden sandy beach has been given Euro...
Corfe Castle, Dorset
Corfe Castle is one of the most spectacular ruined castles in Britain, from whatever direction it is viewed. The name is also given to the village in which the castle is set. One of the best views clearly demon...
Ham Hill Country Park, Somerset
Ham Hill, west of Yeovil in Somerset, is a hill from which the famous honey-coloured building stone has been quarried for over 2,000 years. It has been used to build Roman villas, Saxon and Medieval churches, s...
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...
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...
Bath, Somerset
Bath in Somerset, on the edge of the Cotswolds, is a World Heritage City. It attracts thousands of visitors from all over the world every year to see the fine Georgian buildings, beautiful parks, riverside walk...
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...
Devizes, Wiltshire
Devizes is an historic market town in Wiltshire, with almost 500 "listed" buildings. The Kennet and Avon Canal, with the spectacular Caen Hill Flight of 29 locks, is close by. Wadsworth Brewery is prominent at ...
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...
Twickenham, Middlesex
Twickenham is a town south west of London, on the River Thames. It is famous for Twickenham Stadium, the largest rugby union venue in the world, with a capacity of 81,605, the home of English Rugby Union. It ...
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...
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...
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...
Midhurst, Sussex
Midhurst is a beautiful small town in West Sussex. View photos of the area, including the grammar school attended by the famous science fiction novelist H.G. Wells.
...
Selsey, Sussex
Selsey, which is located at the southern most point of the Manhood Peninsula, is a seaside town and beach in West Sussex. It makes for a lovely day at the beach and is home to the inventor of the mouse trap!
...