Visit The Most Southerly Railway In UK Called the most southerly heritage railway in the UK, it is also the most westerly in England too! The Helston Railway is a potential sleeping giant. Although at first I thought that Wales…
5,000 multi coloured dahlias are now on display around what could be described as the oldest rockery in England! The flowers that were once the height of chic in the mid-Victorian times. Now make up a recreation of an event…
As a Curlew song subsided ‘Tangmere’ then took over as it huffed and puffed crossing the Ribblehead Viaduct in the Yorkshire Dales. This audio experience of a Battle of Britain class steam engine from the 1940’s then broke the near…
“I can see the sea!” Certainly most rooms at these two Cornish hotels can adopt this fond phrase when approaching their coastal location. First impressions of the Bedruthan Hotel and Spa as you drive in could mark it down as…
A leading hotel in the west of Cornwall is running a walking weekend in May. Guests at Budock Vean near Falmouth will be strolling around spectacular Helford an area of the Lizard Peninsula. Offering bracing sea air and an expert…
A famous haven for Red Squirrels the National Trust's Brownsea Island reopens this weekend. Springtime on Brownsea is a great time to look out for a number of key species including red squirrels, which can often be seen foraging for…
Cerne Giant Dated At Last! After many years of researching the Cerne Giant in Dorset it has been finally dated according to the University of Oxford. Two academics from the University concluded that the Cerne Abbas Giant was originally carved…
Boarding on the border…a brief visit to Carlisle on the England Scotland border. Even before the Roman times in Great Britain the city of Carlisle was the front line in various disputes between the two nations or their respective tribes.…
Jamaica Inn in Cornwall is reported to have the most ghostly goings-on in that county and probably in the UK. Situated in the remote, wild and lonely Bodmin Moor it is certainly a candidate to have spectacular spectral shows. Its…
The forced abandonment of a complete village in Dorset during 1943 was regarded as vital for the success of D Day. In creating this lost village of Tyneham it is now for some either a place of pilgrimage or a…
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