Wychwood Brewery, Oxfordshire

The Wychwood Brewery is tucked away behind the main street of the market town of Witney, in the heart of the Oxfordshire Cotswolds, England. Witney is historically famous for its 3 Bs; its bread, its blankets and its beer. Brewing has taken place in Witney for centuries. The first sizeable brewery in Witney was founded by [...]

Colchester Zoo, Essex, England

With over 250 species to see, set in 60 acres of beautiful parkland and lakes, Colchester Zoo is well worth a visit. There are over 30 daily displays, an undercover soft play area, 4 adventure play areas, 2 road trains and much more, Colchester Zoo promises everyone a great day out!

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Fish Lake, South Yorkshire, England – Historic village walking video from Walks Around Britain

Sussex Tollgates, England

The Turnpike Trusts started erecting tollgates and collecting fees for road maintainence in 1663. Sussex has over 500 turnpiked roads and an asortment of curious buildings which over the recent years has all but a few disappeared. In this video Richard Vobes goes in search of some of them.

Port Isaac, Cornwall, England

Port Isaac was a busy coastal port from the Middle Ages to the mid 19th. century when it was an active harbour where cargo like stone, coal, timber and pottery were loaded and unloaded.

Jorvik Viking Center, York, England

The world famous JORVIK Viking Centre is a ‘must-see’ for visitors to the city of York and is one of the most popular visitor attractions in the UK outside London.

Welcoming 15 million visitors over the past 25 years, visitors can journey through the reconstruction of Viking-Age streets, as they would have been in the year AD975. JORVIK Viking Centre also offers three exciting exhibitions and the chance to actually come face to face with a ‘Viking’.

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The summit of Mam Tor is encircled by a late Bronze Age and early Iron Age hill fort. Radiocarbon analysis suggests occupation from around 1200 BC. The earliest remaining features are two Bronze Age burial mounds, one just below the summit and the other on the summit itself. At a later stage over a hundred small platforms were levelled into the hill near the summit, allowing inhabited timber huts to be constructed.

Video: Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, England

Bletchley Park, also known as Station X, is an estate located in the town of Bletchley, in Buckinghamshire, England. During World War II, Bletchley Park was the site of the United Kingdom’s main decryption establishment, the Government Code and Cypher School. Ciphers and codes of several Axis countries were decrypted there, most importantly ciphers generated by the German Enigma and Lorenz machines.

Video: Tintagel Castle, Cornwall, England

Little is known about the history of the recent castle. The castle is most famous for its association with legendary King Arthur. The site is known to have been occupied by the Romans for tin mining, but it is as a Royal stronghold of the Cornish Kings during the 5th & 6th centuries that the legend takes hold.

Video: The Roald Dahl Museum, Buckinghamshire, England

The Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre opened to great acclaim in June 2005 and to date has welcomed over 200,000 visitors through its chocolate doors.

From the shadowy figure of the BFG (Big Friendly Giant) visible on the High Street wall outside, to the crocodile cunningly disguised as a bench, the whole building takes Dahl’s much-loved characters and stories as its theme. Working with Hawkins\Brown Architects, gallery designers Bremner & Orr succeeded in transforming an old coaching inn and yard into a series of galleries that immerse visitors, especially young people, in the subversive world of Roald Dahl, with the intention of sparking imaginations and enthusiasm for word play, stories and creative writing.

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