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...
Castle Combe, Wiltshire
Castle Combe is a breathtakingly beautiful village, which is recognised around the world from photographs printed on calendars and chocolate boxes. It is situated on the southern edge of the Cotswold Hills, tw...
Singleton, Sussex
Singleton is a small pretty village just off the main A286 Chichester to Midhurst Road, near the source of the River Lavant. The river bed is dry most of the year, but flows in the winter in a short valley to ...
Weald and Downland Living Museum, Singleton, Sussex
The Weald and Downland Living Museum is on a forty acre site at the pretty village of Singleton, Sussex, seven miles north of Chichester. Visitors can examine the collection of more than fifty historic buildin...
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...
East Hagbourne, Oxfordshire
East Hagbourne is an extremely attractive village, one mile south of Didcot and eleven miles south of Oxford, close to the Berkshire Downs. It contains a variety of lovely old cottages, red-bricked Georgian an...
Brightwell-cum-Sotwell, Oxfordshire
Brightwell-cum-Sotwell is a pretty village in Oxfordshire close to Wallingford, located just off the A4130 road which by-passes the village. The unusual name of the village dates from 1948, when the two separa...
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...
Rievaulx, North York Moors, Yorkshire
Rievaulx is a tiny village near Helmsley in the North York Moors National Park. It is located in the previous inner courts of Rievaulx Abbey. Here, at one time, were the brewhouse, bakehouse and guesthouse for ...
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...
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...
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...
Ashwell, Hertfordshire
Ashwell is a large village with many attractive, well preserved, mainly timber-framed buildings. Several buildings display pargeting, which is decorative fine patterned plasterwork. This is done whilst the plas...
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...
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...
Ebrington, Gloucestershire
Ebrington in Gloucestershire, is a lovely village, two miles from Chipping Campden. Typical of villages in this part of the country, it has narrow lanes and tiny streets of golden Cotswold stone cottages, many ...
Adlestrop, Gloucestershire
Adlestrop is a tiny settlement of honey coloured cottages, in the Cotswolds. It does not have a pub, but does have a church, village hall and a post office. This lovely isolated village is situated between Chip...