Stonehenge

Having the skills to interpret historical features in the landscape can add an extra layer of interest to your walks. Here’s what to look out for...

Somehow, it isn’t hard to imagine the scene of battle here, even on a sultry July morning when only the distant growl of a motorbike interrupts the crooning of collared doves. Perhaps it is the quiet.

When COUNTRY LIFE’s Henry Avray Tipping spotted a 17th-century four poster languishing in a Herefordshire attic in 1911, he set off a chain of events that saw the bed leave its ancestral home and land at The Met in New York

Discover how the UK’s country houses defied the odds to survive as historic monuments and cultural centres

Marble Hill, Richmond-upon-Thames, Greater London In the care of English Heritage

One of the highest profile crop markings was created on 10 July at Sturminster Marshall in Dorset, near Cerne Abbas and its giant: a massive spider motif made from overlapping circles on land belongin