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The official magazine of VisitBritain and winner in the Best Holiday Consumer magazine category at the British Travel Awards, we bring you the best of British travel, culture, heritage and style. Learn more about our kings and queens, heroes and villains, castles and cathedrals, stately homes and gardens, countryside and coastline… and so much more besides.

“You came, and looked and loved the viewLong-known and loved by me,Green Sussex fading into blueWith one grey glimpse of...
07/09/2026

“You came, and looked and loved the view
Long-known and loved by me,
Green Sussex fading into blue
With one grey glimpse of sea.” - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

With its glorious, undulating countryside punctuated by historic market towns and impossibly idyllic villages, it’s no wonder West Sussex has beguiled so many visitors through the centuries.

Read more here: https://www.discoverbritain.com/destinations/england/west-sussex/

Did you know the Cotswolds is fast becoming a foodie destination? Covering some 800 square miles, the region is dotted w...
06/09/2026

Did you know the Cotswolds is fast becoming a foodie destination?

Covering some 800 square miles, the region is dotted with thousands of farms, distilleries and organic producers, so it’s no surprise that in the Cotswolds you can eat and drink very well indeed!

Here, we take a gourmet tour of the Cotswolds: https://www.discoverbritain.com/journey-planning/food-and-drink/best-food-in-the-cotswolds/

Photo: Bourton-on-the-Water is a contender for the prettiest village in the Cotswolds. Credit: Image Professionals GmbH / Alamy

A French visitor to England in 1578 waxed lyrical that “rumour of the greatness, prosperity, singularities and splendour...
04/09/2026

A French visitor to England in 1578 waxed lyrical that “rumour of the greatness, prosperity, singularities and splendours of London fly and run to the ends of the whole world”. Less enthusiastic observers grumbled about traffic congestion, the stench of the River Thames, and in the case of one voluble Venetian merchant, the “healthy but sickening” taste of beer. But what was London during the reign of Elizabeth I really like?

We explore more here: https://www.discoverbritain.com/destinations/london/tudor-london-royals-and-rogues/

Photo: An illustration of Elizabethan Bankside in 1572, before The Globe was built there. Credit: Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy

On 3 September 1658, Lord Protector of England Oliver Cromwell died aged 59, due to complications relating to a form o...
03/09/2026

On 3 September 1658, Lord Protector of England Oliver Cromwell died aged 59, due to complications relating to a form of malaria.

It is thought that his death was also quickened by the death of his daughter a month previously. Richard Cromwell (his third son) became Lord Protector of England on his death, but served just under 9 months, leading to his nickname 'Tumbledown Dick' by Royalists.

But was he a villain or a hero? We discuss this here: https://www.discoverbritain.com/history/icons/oliver-cromwell-english-civil-war-part-i/

Photo credit: A portrait of Oliver Cromwell. Credit: ©National Trust Images/John Hammond

Here, we look at the opulence of the Edwardian era, and the glittering lives of two of Britain’s most fashionable royal ...
01/09/2026

Here, we look at the opulence of the Edwardian era, and the glittering lives of two of Britain’s most fashionable royal couples during the Gilded Age, explored in a new exhibition at The King’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace: https://www.discoverbritain.com/history/icons/edwardian-era-gilded-age/

Image: Queen Alexandra as painted by François Flameng in 1908 | Photo credit: Royal Collection Enterprises Limited 2024 | Royal Collection Trust

The fairytale Belvoir Castle occupies a promontory overlooking the beautiful Vale of Belvoir in the north of Leicestersh...
31/08/2026

The fairytale Belvoir Castle occupies a promontory overlooking the beautiful Vale of Belvoir in the north of Leicestershire. The castle has been the ancestral home of the Dukes of Rutland since the land was first gifted to Norman baron Robert de Todeni by William the Conqueror.

And the current castle, with its dramatic skyline of towers, turrets and crenellations, is the fourth to stand on the same spot since 1067.

Read more here: https://www.discoverbritain.com/heritage/castles/best-castles-uk/

Photo credit: Ian Dagnall / Alamy

It's hard to believe that the impossibly picturesque little port of Polperro was once the most infamous village in Cornw...
30/08/2026

It's hard to believe that the impossibly picturesque little port of Polperro was once the most infamous village in Cornwall for smuggling. Here, ancient cottages crowd down to the calm waters of a narrow inlet where fishing boats bob and gulls call from lichen-dappled rooftops.

But alongside fishing, farming and mining, smuggling was, for a while, one of the main occupations for folk in this wild part of the West Country. Read more: https://www.discoverbritain.com/history/historic-events/smuggling-in-cornwall/

Photo credits: Brian Lawrence/Alamy/Jeremy Flint/AWL Images

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