
Keswick in Cumbria is home to a druidical set of stones known as the Castlerigg Stone Circle. It dates back to the Neolithic period of around 3000BC. – making it one of the oldest in the UK. Its location, somewhat isolated, and set against a breath-taking backdrop of fells and moorland – it isn’t difficult […]

Britain is full of castles; many of them are remarkably well preserved considering their great ages and violent histories. All of them have ghostly tales to tell. We have some pretty fine examples here in the Midlands and I recently paid a fascinating visit to one of the best – Tamworth Castle. Tamworth has a […]

An interesting and eerie place I’ve had the pleasure to visit is White Ladies Priory in the Shropshire countryside. This is a set of ruins of a medieval convent that dates from the twelfth century, although there is evidence to suggest that this was a religious place long before the Norman invasion of 1066. I’ve […]

Norfolk is home to some old, and not so old spooky tales. It forms part of East Anglia and shares boundaries with Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and the North Sea. The county is mostly rural in comparison with other English counties, andhaving few towns and cities, one being the historic city of Norwich with its two […]

Like everybody else I have a purse full of plastic cards. The only one I really enjoy taking out is the one that gains me entry to the historical houses that belong to The National Trust. This wonderful and very important organisation owns hundreds of properties all over the British Isles. From tiny pubs in […]




