A Tudor fort on a rocky outcrop on Holy Island, turned into a holiday home by Edwin Lutyens for Edward Hudson, founder of Country Life magazine. Gertrude Jekyll designed the little walled garden in a field nearby.
Holy Island is reached across a causeway that is covered by the sea at high tide: check the safe crossing times before you set off. The ruined Lindisfarne Priory is in the village.
A group of rocky islands off the Northumberland coast, home to around 200,000 seabirds in summer, including tens of thousands of puffins, and a large…
The Victorian home of the inventor and industrialist Lord Armstrong, and the first house in the world lit by hydroelectricity.
An award-winning, family-run restaurant in the Scottish Borders countryside, known for game and local produce such as venison, lamb and beef, with a …
A Baroque masterpiece designed by Sir John Vanbrugh, architect of Blenheim, for the Delaval family, known for their wild parties and practical jokes.
The wall built across northern England by the Emperor Hadrian from 122 AD to guard the Roman Empire's north-west frontier.
A red and white striped lighthouse opened in 1871, the first designed to use alternating electric current.
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