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This month’s cover feature is a celebration of how our history literally litters the countryside. On the West Country beaches where I played as a child, Second World War pillboxes left behind from D-Day training exercises seem as part of...
21 June Away from Hampshire’s famous coast lies a rich patchwork of heathland, chalk streams and ancient woods, supporting some of Britain’s most remarkable wildlife. From sand martins to smooth snakes and free roaming New Forest ponies to...
John Craven, ‘This unpaid army of workers is vital for Britain’, p20 “Volunteers come in all shapes and sizes, but what they have in common is passion and dedication.” Adam Henson, ‘Every newborn Suffolk punch is special’, p23 “I’ve been...
There can’t be many railway station platforms from which it’s possible to look a passing pilot in the eye. That really is what it feels like as you alight at Machynlleth in West Wales: every so often, just across the valley, you see a plane...
New forensic technology helps to beat the illegal wildlife trade. Europe’s best spa towns to visit. Red squirrels at imminent risk of extinction, warn conservationists. Archaeologists discover a structure older than Stonehenge.
1 BATH, SOMERSET Britain’s best known spa town provided a model – followed across Europe – of combining medical treatments with entertainments and diversions. Bath’s 18th-century master of ceremonies Beau Nash established the...
Want more from your country break? Joel Rouse mucks in with WWOOF: a volunteering holiday on an organic farm.
Sustainability, growth and the spirit of independence bloom in Wales’s Dyfi Valley – a rare UNESCO Biosphere.
From pyramids to post-industrial ruins, the UK is full of unusual relics and spaces – we seek out the strangest.
