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Jun 27, 2026
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5 min read
After a week of hiding indoors, the heatwave breaks today. Time to get back outside, and this week's issue has plenty of reasons to do exactly that including: a medieval Leicestershire castle with a tunnel, a Parliamentarian story, and a Walter Scott connection; Churchill's paintings at Chartwell; a Victorian town in Shropshire that's still operating; and Waddesdon's art collection, one of the finest assembled in Victorian England.
Jun 20, 2026
This week: a contemporary art installation inside an 18th-century temple at Castle Howard, the sandstone rock houses at Kinver Edge where families were still living in the 1960s, and a garden at Sissinghurst that's been 91 years in the making. Plus a boat trip on a historic Surrey waterway, an after-hours evening at Colchester Castle, and an owner-led tour of a medieval pele tower in Cumbria.
Jun 14, 2026
This week: a London garden that's been locked away for years, the BBC series that's put a Cotswolds hoarder's manor back on everyone's list, a formal Edinburgh garden tucked off the Royal Mile, next door to where Adam Smith spent his final years, and a Dorset cabinet that spent a year in conservation before coming home. Plus jousting at the crowning place of Scottish kings next weekend. Enjoy.
Jun 5, 2026
4 min read
This week: Grimsthorpe Castle in Lincolnshire and its 500 years of stories now available by audio tour, Coventry Charterhouse which pulled in 50,000 visitors in its first year under the National Trust, and a garden on Anglesey that almost nobody knows about. Plus the newly opened Neolithic hall at Stonehenge, and a 5,000-year-old burial chamber on Anglesey with a solstice event coming up on 13 June. Enjoy!
May 25, 2026
This week: choughs are back at Tintagel after a century away, Rudyard Kipling's East Sussex home turns out to be far stranger inside than the exterior suggests, a Roman fort in County Durham has quietly reopened with some of the best-preserved bath house remains in Britain, and a Mughal palace in the Cotswolds that most people have never heard of. Plus medieval music at Tintern Abbey, minibeasts at Hopetoun, and a military festival in Cumbria all coming up in the next few weeks. Enjoy!
May 17, 2026
This week: A Cornish garden that runs down to its own private beach, a 600-year-old Kent house with guided tours, Tennyson's Isle of Wight retreat reopened to visitors, and a Civil War re-enactment at a Staffordshire manor next weekend. Good week for planning ahead. Enjoy!
May 8, 2026
This week: Preston Mill in East Lothian has been grinding grain again for the first time in 30 years, and it appeared in Outlander. Scampston Hall in North Yorkshire opens its doors for guided tours from 20 May. Floors Castle in the Scottish Borders is open for the season, and Halswell Park in Somerset is offering a rare behind-the-scenes tour on 14 May. Plenty to plan around this week and beyond. Enjoy!
May 3, 2026
This week: Stourhead's rhododendron circuit in full swing, Muncaster Castle's bluebell terrace above the Esk, a Lincolnshire castle reopening with a brand new exhibition, and Sutton Hoo's Anglo-Saxon burial ground. Plus a car show in a Capability Brown park, an antiques fair where the ticket gets you into the house, and Chavenage House, the Gloucestershire manor that doubled as Trenwith in Poldark and is now the subject of a Channel 4 series about saving country houses.Enjoy!
Apr 19, 2026
This week: a Yorkshire giant pulled back from the brink, a Derbyshire castle built for pleasure not war, a moated fortress in East Sussex that looks exactly like a castle should, and a Norfolk mansion with a ghost story that holds up under scrutiny. Plus a medieval ruin on the edge of Edinburgh that almost nobody visits, and a Somerset castle with views across Exmoor.
