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Artist and designer Luke Edward Hall explains why the Cotswolds is an area that holds a special place in his heart

Rye, East Sussex This Medieval town is brimming ...

With beautiful colleges set along a meandering river, this East Anglian treasure is a great place to relax, recharge and dream

WITH ITS EXQUISITE LIBRARIES, ECLECTIC BOOKSHOPS AND COSY, STORIED PUBS, THIS CHARMING UNIVERSITY CITY IS IDEAL FOR A LITERARY-THEMED VISIT IN WINTER

One Bath location that Jane Austen wrote about – criticising the houses as being too small – is New King Street. Come to number 19, in which several rooms recreate interiors in a typical 18th-century

I’m sceptical about news stories you sometimes read of big black cats roaming the countryside. I was, however, tempted to don my boots for a hike I found on the internet titled In the Footsteps of the