Osborne House may be the best known of the Isle of Wight’s stately homes, but the island was favoured by well-connected families long before the Victorians made...
The curtain may be falling on Downton Abbey but Highclere Castle, the stately home where the series is set, carries on its grand march through history undaunted.
All in the golden afternoon
Full leisurely we glide;
For both our oars, with little skill,
By little arms are plied,
While little hands make vain pretence
Our wanderings...
Arguably Britain’s finest medieval cathedral, Salisbury was built between 1220 and 1258, replacing the first incarnation at Old Sarum just down the road
Scarce water...
