February/March 2021

Discover Britain

Showcasing the best of the British Isles.

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Welcome!
While actual physical travel has been somewhat restricted of late, there has never been a better time to explore the British Isles vicariously through the pages of Discover Britain. In amongst all of the usual articles on our nation’s history, herita
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Group Editor Steve Pill Production Editor Jenny Rowe Art Editor Clare White Managing Director, Sales & Create Steve Ross Group Advertising Manager Natasha Syed Senior Sales Executive Sachin Patel Business Development Manager Jack Shannon Chairman Pau
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Wish You Were Here...
Sandwiched between Salisbury and Cranborne Chase to the west and Winchester and the South Downs to the east, Hampshire’s Test Valley is often overlooked as a destination. However, the district is home to countless outdoor pursuits and historic garden
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Letters
How splendid it was to read the article about Wollaton Hall in issue 219. It is one of many places in Nottinghamshire I like to visit. I remember when they shot The Dark Knight Rises, the grounds where closed from the public while they stayed to shoo
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Capital Of The NORTH
Lounging in a comfortable leather armchair sipping a flat white in the Gatehouse Coffee café, York might feel every inch a modern city. And it is. But step outside onto the castellated terrace, usually teeming with coffee aficionados and cheery touri
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A Place to Grow
Kitchen gardens have been a staple of English country houses since medieval times. Land on these great estates was richly cultivated; freshly-grown produce would feed the residents and staff, while cut flowers would decorate the house. For the head g
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My Britain
Scott Lewis, Lulworth Coastguard Rescue I became a member of the Lulworth Coastguard Rescue team in 2005. I’d lived in the area for four years and when two young lads drowned in a local incident, I realised that if something happened to someone I kn
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Coming Together
In 1799, a young man took on the running of a Scottish cotton mill business in the Clyde Valley in South Lanarkshire. Not content merely to manage the enterprise, he had decided “to commence the most important experiment for the happiness of the huma
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The Whisky Coast
The west of Scotland is known as the “Whisky Coast” – and with good reason. On its dark, bare islands and along its fertile green shorelines stand some of the most famous distilleries in Britain, which means some of the best whisky in the world is pr
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Discover London
A new exhibition at the National Maritime Museum is set to reveal how our collective impression of the Royal family has been shaped by official portraits over the last 500 years. Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits also brings together painti
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Called To The Bar
For the French poet Arthur Rimbaud, “Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.” For Londoners, for centuries, the respite has come in the city’s many watering holes. Rimbaud glugged gin and absinthe at the Hibernia Arms in Old Compton Street a
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Garden of Plenty
Famed as a shopping district and entertainment hotspot in 21st-century London, Covent Garden has nevertheless changed more than almost any other part of the British capital. What began as an apple orchard in the 13th century would become the home of
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Iconic Londoners Boudicca
On the Victoria Embankment, facing Westminster under the shadow of Big Ben, stands a bronze statue, or more accurately, a group of sculptures depicting two galloping horses pulling a chariot yet uncontrolled by any of the three women who rode within.
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Historic Towns Rye
Perched on a hill above the lowlands of Romney Marsh, this medieval citadel rises up like a historic beacon at the confluence of three rivers. It has been a favourite destination for royalty and writers through the ages, as well as harbouring crimina
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Artistic License
If one were to relax in the Cinnamon Drawing Room at Harewood House, one could begin to conjure up an image of the grand lives that were led in this famous house centuries ago. For starters the walls are sheathed in rich, cinnamon coloured damask tha
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Dyffryn
The Welsh estate of Dyffryn was built on coal. The Cory family had been quick to capitalise on the world’s increased demand for the black stuff at the height of the Industrial Revolution. John Cory took over the family business in 1882 and moved to D
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In Numbers
Size (in acres) of the extensive gardens at Dyffryn Days of the year in which Dyffryn Gardens is open to the public Year in which Dyffryn Estate was first granted to the Bishop of Llandaff Cost (in £GBP) of repairs to Dyffryn House in 2012 ■
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Mystical MOORS
“ he moor’s swollen waterbelly. ›T Swags and quivers, ready to burst at a step,” wrote Sylvia Plath’s husband and British poet laureate, Ted Hughes in his 1983 work Snipe. Although born in Yorkshire in 1930, Hughes lived in North Tawton, just north
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5 Things To Do On Dartmoor
Known as the “Walking Capital of Devon”, the traditional market town of Okehampton is certainly worth a stop-off on the first and third Saturdays of the month, when the local farmers’ market fills St James’ Chapel Square. From here, walkers can head
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Puddings
Ask a Brit and an American to discuss sweet foods and you are entering into a world of confusion. Somewhere over the Atlantic the terms have become so twisted that the Oxford Dictionaries blog perhaps put it best when it reasoned: “A British biscuit

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