Best Things Across The UK

Dunluce Castle: The Clifftop Ruin Where Game of Thrones Met Narnia, Above the Antrim Coast In 1588, a Spanish Armada ship called the Girona wrecked on the rocks near Dunluce Castle. The MacDonnell clan — who had controlled the castle since the 1550s — salvaged the...

Craig y Nos Castle: The Victorian Opera Star Who Built Her Own Theatre in the Brecon Beacons Adelina Patti was the most celebrated opera singer of the Victorian era — a soprano who commanded the largest fees in the world and whose voice filled La Scala in Milan,...

Gwrych Castle: Gothic Revival Ruin, WWII Refuge and Wales's Most Unexpected TV Star In 1940, as Nazi Germany occupied much of Europe, a group of Jewish young people arrived at a ruined Gothic Revival castle on the North Wales coast. Gwrych Castle — already...

Pembroke Castle: Where Henry VII Was Born, Above a Prehistoric Cave Beneath Pembroke Castle, in the limestone bedrock on which the fortress stands, there is a cave. Wogan Cavern is a prehistoric chamber that was occupied by early humans long before any castle existed...

Craigievar Castle: The Pink Tower That Danzig Willy Built, Rising Above Aberdeenshire William Forbes made his fortune trading with the Baltic port of Danzig — now Gdańsk in Poland — in the early years of the 17th century. So successful was his trade that he became...

Laugharne Castle: The "Brown as Owls" Fortress Where Dylan Thomas Found His Voice Dylan Thomas called it "the brown as owls castle" — a phrase that tells you as much about the poet's way of seeing as it does about the castle itself. Thomas...