Off the Beaten Track in Somerset

  In 1903 Lady Emily Smyth, widow of Sir Greville Smyth (owner of the Ashton Court Estate) provided six hectares of land in Long Ashton so t...

Roald Dahl was born in Llandaff near Cardiff on 13 th September 1916. His parents, Harald and Sofie Dahl, were Norwegians and his father w...

St Peter's on the Quay is a small chapel sandwiched between the Old Ship Aground pub and the Echo Beach Cafe.  The building housing it ...

The idea of building a ship canal to link the English Channel to the Bristol Channel and thus cut out the long sea journey around Lands End,...

St Leonard's Chapel in Tivington  in the parish of Selworthy, was built in the 14th century as a chapel-of-ease. After the Dissolution o...

Part of a mature hedgerow in the middle of the Hinkley Point C site, known as Green Lane,  was removed in the early phase of the constructio...

A jubilee is a special anniversary of an event, especially one celebrating 25 (silver), 50 (gold) or 60 (diamond) years of a reign, organisa...