villages & market towns
Hartington guide: the Tudor mansion and the cheese shop in the midst of a gorgeous English vale
Tissington guide: visit an elegant Jacobean manor house and cycle the scenic Tissington Trail
Ashford in the Water guide: discover the Bull's Head pub, walks and the medieval Sheepwash Bridge
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Eyam guide: visit the charming English village with a harrowing past
Bakewell guide: visit the home of the famous English tart
Nicola Chester: Rural buses are a dying breed
Bike ride: Strathspey, Highland
Walk: Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire
Walk: Lincoln Cathedral and Arboretum, Lincolnshire
Walk: Gawsworth, Cheshire
Crail to Anstruther walk, Fife
Day out: Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire
Day out: Pendle Hill, Lancashire
Walk: Stoke Bruerne and Blisworth Tunnel, Northamptonshire
Explore the landscape that inspired the Brontë sisters
How did a quiet Yorkshire parsonage produce three of Britain’s greatest writers? On the bicentenary of Charlotte Brontë’s birth, Juliet Barker explores the moorlands and villages that inspired the author and her equally gifted sisters Emily and Anne.
A walk through Eastbourne, West Sussex to Beachy Head
Stroll from the genteel resort of Eastbourne to the giddy heights of Beachy Head
Bottle Kicking in Hallaton, Leicestershire
Walk around a village famous for its annual Hare Pie Scramble and Bottle Kicking.
Rushbearing Festival of Grasmere, Cumbria
Share in a medieval celebration before escaping to the shores of a mountain tarn.
Flash, Staffordshire
Pluckley, Kent
Explore this pretty Kent village and surrounding countryside - but don't be deceived, the supernatural holds sway.
Gawsworth, Cheshire
Keep your eyes peeled for Shakespeare's Dark Lady and jocular Lord Flame in a secluded village in the Cheshire countryside.
Cowbridge, Vale of Glamorgan
Two castles, a Welsh vineyard and oodles of independent shops: we show you how to live like a king in Cowbridge
Walsingham Abbey, Norfolk
Wander the quiet lanes of some of Norfolk’s prettiest villages and enjoy the snowdrops at Walsingham Abbey
Holmfirth, West Yorkshire
Follow in the footsteps of Compo, Clegg and Foggy in TV's long running comedy Last of the Summer Wine amid superb Pennine countryside