St Cwyfan’s Church (known in Welsh as Eglwys Cwyfan) is a 12th-century church on a tidal island named Cribinau, near ...
Trewrach Cottage pet friendly self catering holiday cottage in Dinas Cross, Pembrokeshire, sleeping 4 people, from £407 per ...
2 Sunny Hill in Porthgain, Pembrokeshire, sleeps four guests in two bedrooms. 2 Sunny Hill has a kitchen with an electric oven and hob, microwave, dishwasher, a utility with fridge/freezer, washing ...
Tea, that most quintessential of English drinks, is a relative latecomer to British shores. Although the custom of drinking tea dates back to the third millennium BC in China, it was not until the mid ...
Owl Cottage rests in Southrepps, Norfolk, sleeping five guests in two bedrooms. This property has two bedrooms, a double and a triple, along with a bathroom and a shower room. There's also a kitchen, ...
Standing on the bank of The Lake in a historic landscape below Blenheim Palace is a Cedar of Lebanon known as The Harry Potter Tree for its role in the 2007 film Harry Potter and the Order of the ...
An acte restoring to the crown the ancient jurisdiction over the state ecclesiastical and spiritual and abolishing all foreign power repugnant to the same. Most humbly beseech your most excellent ...
Our look at the lives of people in the fields of art, architecture, science, and literature throughout British history. From Geoffrey Chaucer to William Morris, Christopher Wren to Isaac Newton.
As its name suggests, the chief characteristic of Perpendicular architecture is the emphasis on strong vertical lines, seen most markedly in window tracery and wall panelling. Roof vaulting became ...
Mote of Mark is a conical hill overlooking the Rough Firth near the village of Rockcliffe in Dumfries and Galloway. On the hilltop is a Dark Ages fort occupied in the 5th and 6th centuries. The fort ...
It is difficult to generalize about an era as lengthy as the Dark Ages, but we'll do it anyway. The Anglo-Saxons were pagans when they came to Britain. They worshipped gods of nature and held springs, ...
We know very little of the first few hundred years of the Anglo-Saxon, or "English", era, primarily because the invaders were an illiterate people. Our earliest records of them are little more than ...