At the end of the Metropolitan line, Old Amersham has a historic High Street, a Grade I church, a hillside martyrs' memorial and footpaths through green Chiltern fields.

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.

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.

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.

Ten minutes inland from the Cagnes-sur-Mer coast, the old village of Villeneuve-Loubet hides a 13th-century castle, Escoffier's birth house, and some of the quietest medieval streets on the French Riviera.

A wander through Winchcombe's working high street, blossom-framed old police station, Easter door wreaths, a 1967 bakery, and the town's whimsically named cottages — a proper, unpolished Cotswolds day trip.

A quiet Cotswold market town near Stroud with a bakehouse café on Market Square, roses spilling over an old school house, a postbox with a painted cow, and a famous common where cattle graze freely among the golfers.

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.

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.

A weekend in Lyndhurst, the New Forest's main village: where to stay and eat, Furzey Gardens' alpacas, the Tall Trees Trail, Bolton's Bench and the ponies.