Following in Jane Austen’s Footsteps: Visit Chawton, Chawton House and Steventon with Jolly Good Tours This year is the 250th Anniversary of Jame Austen’s birth. I set out to explore Jane Austen’s Hampshire to better understand the countryside that influenced her. For admirers of Jane Austen, there are […]
Following the line of the River Thames we travel West to Windsor Castle, the home of Kings & Queens since 1070AD.
In 1838, the young Queen Victoria ordered that Hampton Court should be thrown open to all her subjects “without restriction”.
Famous for its picture-postcard, honey-coloured villages, The Cotswolds is one of the most quintessentially English and unspoiled regions of the country.
The birthplace in 1564 of William Shakespeare – widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English Language…
Known as “the city in the countryside”, Salisbury is surrounded by a landscape that is quintessentially English.
A plot spoiler – We can’t tell you definitively why this 5,000 year old monument is where it is but we can talk you through some of the most recent theories and research.
Oxford, the City of Dreaming Spires, and Blenheim Palace – a masterpiece of 18th century Baroque architecture.
Leeds Castle – a palace used by Henry VIII and his first wife Catherine of Aragon, and Chartwell – home of Sir Winston Churchill.
Originally an Archbishop’s Palace and set in a medieval deer park, Knole is one of the largest houses in England.