Retreats cosy winter

The North Country Rover ticket offers four days’ travel within an eight-day period and covers the north of England from Halifax up to Newcastle and Carlisle (excluding heritage railways). Available at

Just having celebrated its 60th anniversary, the Landmark Trust is a conservation charity that restores derelict historic buildings, sensitively converting them into comfortable holiday accommodation.

What do our beloved hostelries have to do with the discovery of DNA, the D-Day landings and The Lord of the Rings ? Everything, as Ashleigh Arnott discovers

Ingliston Estate & Country Club, Old Greenock Road, Bishopton, Renfrewshire PA7 5PA T 01505 864333 W thepaddocksrv.com OPEN All year The 100-acre Ingliston Estate, positioned between Loch Lomond and G

Vast, varied and fiercely proud, Yorkshire rewards those who travel slowly and look closely. From moorland villages and grand houses with spellbinding interiors to tea rooms, abbeys and bracing sea ai

From a charming church conversion to a home with a fly fishing loch and holiday lets, Amy McPherson compiles some of the best coastal properties for sale