Best Things Across The UK

Sudeley Castle: Where Henry VIII's Last Queen Rests, in the Heart of the Cotswolds Of all the ways that the Tudor age has left its mark on the English countryside, perhaps the most intimate is this: in the churchyard of the small, beautiful St Mary's Chapel...

Chillingham Castle: Britain's Most Haunted Fortress, Above the Cheviot Hills In the 600-acre park that surrounds Chillingham Castle, a herd of wild white cattle has roamed freely since the land was first enclosed in the 13th century. They have never been...

Tintagel Castle Cornwall | Everything You Need to Know On a headland of dark slate cliffs above the Atlantic, cut almost entirely from the mainland by erosion over two millennia, stand the ruins of a place that has attracted pilgrims of imagination for as long as...

Belvoir Castle: The Home of Afternoon Tea, the Belvoir Witches and the Dukes of Rutland The name is French — Belvoir, meaning "beautiful view" — but in England it has been pronounced "Beaver" for so long that no one argues the point. The beautiful...

Lancaster Castle: The Pendle Witch Trials, a Working Court and a Thousand Years Above the Lune In the summer of 1612, twenty people from the Pendle Forest area of Lancashire were brought to Lancaster Castle to stand trial for witchcraft. Nineteen were tried at the...

Dunster Castle: Six Hundred Years of the Luttrells, Above the Bristol Channel The Luttrell family acquired Dunster Castle in 1376 and donated it to the National Trust in 1976. Six hundred years of continuous ownership in a single family. In that time they turned a...