The Scottish Highlands have captured travellers’ imaginations since Sir Walter Scott began setting his wildly evocative historical novels here. What those first Victorian tourists discovered was a vas

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This early 19th-century cottage in Padstow, owned by Jess and Ash Alken-Theasby, has lived a long and varied life. ‘It was originally a little fishing cottage, but it’s had several interesting uses si

ONE day, tailor Robert Spittal arrived at Doune and sought to cross the River Teith by the ferry boat. He must have been quite embarrassed to discover he hadn’t enough money with him to pay the toll.

In spring, thousands of daffodils illuminate the fields and riverbanks at Farndale, in a corner of North Yorkshire rich in folklore and history

Tucked away in the south-east corner of the UK, within easy reach from London, Kent has long been known as ‘the garden of England’: a patchwork of rolling hills, lush fields and leafy vineyards, dotte