"The Laskett Gardens, set in the idyllic countryside of Herefordshire on the Welsh borders, is the creation of Sir Roy Strong CH and his...

Dennis Severs came to Spitalfields in 1979 and bought a derelict house saved by the Spitalfields Trust. He reconfigured it to tell the...

At the end of September, with my usual companion in tow, I made a visit to Buscot Park, a late 18th-century house set in enchanting...

Sir John Soane's Museum is a house museum in London, which was formerly the home of neo-classical architect, John Soane. It holds many...

The University of Oxford Botanic Garden is the oldest botanic garden in Great Britain and one of the oldest scientific gardens in the...

Nymans is an English garden to the east of the village of Handcross, and in the civil parish of Slaugham in West Sussex, England. The...

Renishaw Hall is a country house in Renishaw in the parish of Eckington in Derbyshire, England. It is a Grade I listed building and has...

St Donat's Castle (Castell Sain Dunwyd), is a medieval castle in the Vale of Glamorgan. Positioned on cliffs overlooking the Bristol...

Fonthill Abbey—also known as Beckford's Folly—was a large Gothic Revival country house built between 1796 and 1813 at Fonthill Gifford in...

In mid September 2020, I went and stayed at a manor house in Herefordshire with a companion for a much needed getaway. We were struggling...

Margam Country Park is a country park estate in Wales, of around 850 acres. It was once owned by the Mansel Talbot family and is now...

Hay-on-Wye, often abbreviated to just "Hay" is a small market town in the historic county of Brecknockshire in Wales. With over twenty...

The Bodleian Library is the main research library of the University of Oxford, and is one of the oldest libraries in Europe. With over 12...

I visited Wimpole Hall the day after going to The Fitzwilliam Museum. It was the end of a hot September and the grounds were all burnt to...

The Fitzwilliam Museum is the art and antiquities museum of the University of Cambridge. From antiquity to the present day, the...

Today we are going to Dunraven Bay, I thought the sea air might brighten our day. This cove inspired me to write a series of children's...

St Fagans National Museum of History, commonly referred to as St Fagans after the village where it is located, is an open-air museum...

The Ashmolean is the University of Oxford’s museum of art and archaeology, founded in 1683. "The Ashmolean’s collections are...

The National Portrait Gallery is an art gallery in London housing a collection of portraits of historically important and famous British...

The Three Fates, Aesop's Fables and lascivious animals all combine in an eccentric genius' romantic vision of the middle ages.