Discover Britain

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Discover Britain is Britain's leading historic travel magazine, packed with news and features on our finest stately homes, castles and traditions, practical guides to our cities, coast and countryside.

Angharad MoranThere is another William Morris. Not the William Morris of Arts and Crafts fame treasured for his ever-so-English wallpapers, fabrics and furniture, but...

Words: Angharad Moran Explore a house full of surprises and a garden of great beauty. Ancient trees, bubbling brooks and rolling lawns frame this lovely...

Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron The story of Ironbridge begins with Abraham Darby I, an industrial pioneer who smelted iron in a furnace on this spot...

Vicky SartainBuilt circa 1450 and one of the largest surviving timber-framed halls in the country. Restored and extended in 1910 by Sir Edwin Lutyens....

Vicky SartainEnjoy Forde Abbey’s award-winning 30 acre informal garden where there is always something of beauty and interest to see; from carpets of springtime...
History of Exeter. Credit: Creative Commons

Exeter is Devon’s thriving capital city, owing its status to a number of bureaucratic factors and to its Norman cathedral, which features prominently in...

Angharad Moran Best for spring: Hidcote Manor Gardens, near Chipping Campden There is so much variety at Hidcote that it’s hard to imagine that one man was...
Cannock Chase. Credit: pxhere.com

Standing in a forest clearing, sunlight streams through the surrounding treetops, casting a dappled light across the carpet of bracken below. All around, peace...

From the air, the wild beauty and diminutive scale of Alderney is immediately apparent, and yet it is the third largest of the Channel...

To understand Abbotsford, a fairytale palace set in the heart of the fertile Scottish Borders, one has to know Sir Walter Scott, the man...