A Sunday morning at Broadway Tower on Fish Hill, where a Georgian folly holds stories of printers, Pre-Raphaelites, a wartime crash and a nuclear bunker.

A morning in Painswick: the Rococo Garden in October, the yews and lychgate at St Mary's, and the stone-cottage doors dressed for Halloween.

A June afternoon in Woodstock in Oxfordshire: the honey-stone town outside Blenheim's gate, its two pub streets, a queen held prisoner, a glove trade that paid for the stone, and how to see the park for free.

The library that played the cottage hospital, the church that hosted every wedding, and a thousand years of Oxfordshire market town that the series never mentions.

A marble bust in a top hat and a masquerade mask, paper chains in the library and a Tudor gatehouse in the frost. The National Trust's Warwickshire house at its best.

An hour from Liverpool Street: pargeted plasterwork, jettied timber houses, the largest turf maze in Europe, a free Victorian garden, and Audley End a walk across the park.

A house so big that Charles II bought it as a palace, and the third of it that survives, with Robert Adam interiors, a Capability Brown park and a parterre full of tulips in April.

A honey-stone market town in the Cotswolds where wool merchants once built fortunes, antiques dealers now build reputations, and the King lives just down the road.

A rainy Christmas Eve in Shakespeare's home town, where half-timbered streets glow under fairy lights and the River Avon runs dark and quiet past the theatre he never saw.

Up on its windy hilltop, the highest town in the Cotswolds turns gold and crimson every October — I went looking for its wool-trade history, its 1646 battle, and the church door that may or may not have inspired Tolkien.

A crisp spring morning in the Wiltshire village that wool money built and Hollywood keeps borrowing — the Bybrook, the packhorse bridge, and why it's worth arriving before the day-trippers.

10-11 Carlton House Terrace has hosted a Home Secretary, Gladstone's Thursday breakfasts and a wartime hospital — and once a year, during Open House London, anyone can walk in and see it for free.

Autumn in the Cotswolds, village by village: fallen leaves in Bourton-on-the-Water, crimson creeper on the Wheatsheaf at Northleach, the Swan at Bibury in evening light, both Slaughters, the Manor House at Castle Combe, and when the colour actually peaks.

Thirteen photo spots in Bath, from Topping's bookshop and the Roman Baths to the Royal Crescent and Sham Castle, with a note on when the light is right at each and what it costs in 2026.

Two days in Hastings, from the Old Town's net shops and cliff railways to the Firehills, the pier and James Burton's Regency St Leonards.

If you're excited about this year's leafy makeover of Regent Street (click here to take a look), there's more sustainable tree planting and greenery to come to central London, yay! And it's literally just around the corner! The Westminster City Council has revealed plans of turning the iconic Oxford Circus into "London’s front door" with two pedestrian-friendly Italian-style piazzas that will bring the buzz and excitement back to these famous streets. To take full advantage o