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Glenarm Castle is one of Ireland’s oldest estates. Visitors can enjoy the beautiful scenery and walks in our historic Walled Garden and Castle Trail, excellent locally sourced food in our Tea Room and a visit to our shop. The castle itself is the home of Viscount and Viscountess Dunluce and their family, the inside of the Castle is only occasionally open Read more…
Quex House is a family home and has six rooms of the Regency Mansion open to the public. The house includes gardens, woodland and the Powell-Cotton Museum. The museum includes the life’s work of Major P.H.G Powell-Cotton (1866-1940), displayed are collections of objects, stories, photographs and a huge collection of natural history presented through taxidermy. Read more…
Scarborough Castle occupies one of the most dramatic castle sites in England. This natural fortress location has dramatic coastline views. Read more…
Croxteth Hall and Country Park was the country estate and ancestral home of the Molyneux family, the Earls of Sefton. Within the estate, visitors will find five main attractions. the Historic Hall Croxteth Home Farm the Victorian Walled Garden where visitors can explore Liverpool’s historic botanical collection 500 acre country park and nature reserve the West Derby Courthouse that dates Read more…
Castle Stalker is on its own island 25 miles north of Oban on the west coast of Scotland. It’s a romantic looking castle with the mood of the water surrounding it lending the atmosphere. The name means ‘hunter’ and originally this was a small fortified building belonging to the MacDougalls in 1320. In 1620 the castle was handed over to Read more…
Cosmeston Medieval Village is a restored and reconstructed village from the medieval period situated near Lavernock in the Vale of Glamorgan. It was when the Cosmeston Lakes Country Park was being developed in the late 1970s that the archeological trust uncovered evidence of a 600-year-old village. Today visitors can travel back in time to 1350 to see how life was Read more…
The British Commercial Vehicle Museum exhibits antiquarian buses, early Fire engines and other historical and commercial vehicles produced by the British manufacturing industry. The museum is located on a site previously occupied by the Leyland Motors factory, the source of many exhibits. Read more…
Faldouet Dolmen is a 5m long passage of 17 stones leading to a circular chamber surrounded by 4 chambers. Beyond that is a further horseshoe shaped chamber of 7 uprights covered by a huge capstone estimated to weigh 23 tons. It is likely that the horseshoe chamber was the original passage grave whose passage was dug out to make way Read more…
Historic Dockyard Chatham reveals the full dockyard story Step aboard the Three Historic Warships and discover over 100 years of life at sea. Don’t miss the Victorian Naval Sloop HMS Gannet, Second World War Destroyer HMS Cavalier, and Cold War Submarine Ocelot! Read more…
Clovelly has a single steep cobbled street that runs down past 16th Century fisherman’s cottages to the harbour. The road is half a mile (0.8km) long but drops some 400ft (122m). Once at the bottom Clovelly harbour is a 13th Century stone quay. Clovelly has not been spoilt by the holiday trade over the years as it is owned by Read more…
The Links of Noltland Neolithic and Bronze Age site near Grobust Bay on the north coast of Westray in the Orkney Islands contains the remains of both a Neolithic village and later Bronze Age dwellings. As well as the buildings the ‘Westray Wife’ was discovered, a lozenge-shaped figurine that is believed to be the earliest representation of a human face ever Read more…
Castle Cornet is an island castle in Guernsey, also known as Cornet Rock or Castle Rock. A former tidal island which has been one of the harbour breakwaters of St Peter Port’s since 1859. The island is approximately two hectares in area (length 175 metres and width130 metres). The island also has a restaurant, and hosts outdoor theatre performances during Read more…
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