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Is this Britain’s finest Baroque church?
It may come as a surprise that what might be the finest Baroque church in…
Coleridge’s Cottage
We went to see Coleridge’s Cottage because it was there. Apart from driving through Bridgwater…
Threave Castle
Threave Castle was the stronghold of the Black Douglases and built by the 3rd Earl,…
Two thousand years at Brougham Castle
I’m gazing up through the empty keep, where long-dead feet once paced across floors that…
Clifton, England’s last battle?
18 December 1745, and a rebel Jacobite army arrives at the tiny village of Clifton,…
The ghosts of Wycoller
It is a wild, wind-blown, rain-lashed winter’s night. A spectral horse gallops up to the…
Britain’s superlatives
What is Britain’s longest river, highest mountain, smallest city, oldest pub, longest road, best-selling album, longest-reigning monarch? If you don’t already have this essential knowledge at your finger-tips, look no further. Why? – because the answer to these, and other life-changing questions, will be found on Britain’s superlatives
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