Duncan Haskell

From boating and biking to walking, birding and camping out beneath the starry night sky, this Exmoor lake has something for everyone

Enjoy a 6.5-mile walk from Morgan's Hill nature reserve to Calstone Down in Wiltshire.

There is no guarantee of a partridge in a pear tree, but this RSPB reserve is a birdwatchers’ festive paradise

Take a walk on the banks of Loch Garten – one of Scotland's most beautiful RSPB nature reserves – in search of ancient trees, tottering wood-ant nests, grazing deer and soaring ospreys

This month marks 100 years since the founder of the garden city movement Ebenezer Howard established Welwyn Garden City just north of London. To celebrate to centenary, we look back at the history of garden cities in Britain.

This flood-defence strategy on the Somerset coast shows just how successfully people and nature can work in harmony

Fly up, up and away to an enchanting house that once inspired Neverland and is now a children’s literature centre encouraging the next generation of writers

Visit the ghost-haunted Gothic archways of Hellfire Caves 100m beneath the Buckinghamshire countryside

Visit the finest gardens of the renowned English landscape designer Humphry Repton.

The Hobbit was published on 21st September 1937, on its 80th anniversary of J. R. R. Tolkien's famous fiction, we look at alternative 'Lonely Mountains' to inspire budding Tolkien’s. Plus our pick of the best mountain walks.