Crenelated, moated and haunted – Hever Castle is the classic embodiment of a romantic medieval castle. With more than 600 years of history, this double-moated 14th-century fortress was once the childh

We rarely have a plan for our campervan adventures, preferring instead to point our noses in a general direction of travel and play it by ear. This summer in the UK was no exception as we left our hom

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

Gracing the banks of the River Thames, this exquisite gem survived the Civil War thanks to a shrewd political operator, and is one of the finest Stuart houses in the country

These days, there’s a lot of talk about the politics of personality, but standing in an extensive cave system near West Wycombe, we were transported to a time when politics was at the centre of a scen

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