The cotswolds

With its honey-hued villages, rolling hills and dramatic castles, the picturesque Cotswolds region is in many ways the ultimate English getaway. Spanning an area of almost 800 square miles across the

The Victorians confused these Shropshire hills with the Alps. How? Why? Trail dons its lederhosen, downs a glühwein and reaches for the Stretton Skyline to find out.

‘The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there’. Those words begin one of my very favourite books, The Go-Between, by LP Hartley and, standing in the main street of Malvern, I couldn

“I still chase women, but only downhill.” One of my favourite Bob Hope jokes (told when he was 70). The hilarious Road to... films, in which he starred with Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour, were requir

It’s the busiest time of year for Britain’s beautiful places. Yet as these locations prove, you can find silence, sensational scenery and space to breathe.

Michelle Hather falls for the chocolate-box allure of Alfriston, on the edge of the scenic South Downs