Landscape

Made up of the old counties of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire North of the Sands (Furness), there are some long-standing and unusual...

piel island

Our writer Emma Longstaff explores a quirky 170-year-old tradition on the Cumbrian Piel Island which has its very own reigning monarch

the lake district

Tina Walsh takes an idyllic tour through the Lake District's loveliest spots, and the landscapes that so enamoured William Wordsworth and Beatrix...

norfolk

Where Swallows and Amazons meet lambs and pheasants. Sally Coffey brings you the best of rural Norfolk  To the east...

best villages in the cotswolds

From honeypot towns to villages that look like they’ve fallen out of the pages of a fairy-tale book, here are the best...

sharpham wine

We visited Sandridge Barton, the home of Sharpham Wine in Devon, to taste why England's newest wine destination deserves to be...

wild swimming spots in Britain

At the temperatures rise, it's time to find the best spots in Britain for wild swimming, al fresco. Discover Britain presents our top five

celtic wales

Mark Rowe travels through the heart of Celtic Wales to meet some of the people keeping local traditions alive Words by Mark Rowe It feels as though...

Bluebells at Blakes Wood, Essex, in spring.

There's a magic to bluebell season. Here's our pick of the best places to see bluebells around Britain... For a short time between late April...

south west 660

The South West 660, a new tourism route, offers up some real coastal gems, from Dorset to Somerset via Cornwall and Devon, writes Simon Heptinstall As...