Britain

Packed with 196-pages of the best attractions, days out, places to stay and food and drink destinations, the 2015 BRITAIN Guide is your definitive companion to getting the best out of your holiday. From forgotten medieval villages, to country houses within easy access of London and shopping areas for picking up quintessential gifts, you won’t want to leave home without it.

EDITOR’S LETTER

Britain

YOUR LETTERS • Write to us with your thoughts on the magazine and memories of Britain

The BULLETIN • Lunar landings, masonry miracles & 18th-century society in the frame

READING CORNER • Take inspiration for your British adventures from these great reads

WONDERS OF WILTSHIRE • With its timeless landscape of chalk hills and gentle valleys, and an array of chocolate-box villages and stately manors, Wiltshire is brimming with charm

A LUXURY STAY AT MAGNIFICENT LUCKNAM PARK

Life Below Stairs • The ‘downstairs’ quarters of historic houses once bustled with the servants that worked there. With a Downton Abbey sequel in the works, we discover what a servant’s life was really like

STAND & DELIVER • Dandy outlaws and gentlemen of the road: the romantic image of the highwayman endures to this day. But what’s the real story behind these rugged rogues and their infamous exploits?

THE GREATEST ESTATE • The stateliest of stately homes, Chatsworth has beguiling good looks, an extraordinary art collection and a remarkable history

CAPITAL ESCAPES • Within a short radius of the capital lie bustling market towns and grand cathedral cities, home to a treasure trove of royal palaces, Roman ruins, cobbled backstreets and peaceful water meadows

Beadles & baubles • London’s elegant and historic arcades are atmospheric places to shop, especially when festooned with festive trimmings at Christmas

WHITBY • How did this well-to-do Victorian resort town become the inspiration for one of Gothic fiction’s darkest tales?

VERDANT VALLEY • The Wye Valley was Britain’s original tourist destination, and there’s more to explore than ever

TOP 10 CAMBRIDGE • Great minds and beautiful architecture meet in the historic university city

Daniel Hyde • The Director of Music at King’s College, Cambridge takes us behind the scenes at the world-famous choir’s rehearsals as their iconic live radio broadcast on Christmas Eve, ‘A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols’, approaches