For years, the British seaside suffered from an image of crumbling piers, dirty beaches, tacky amusement arcades and downmarket B&Bs. Now our coastline is enjoying a revival: seafront properties are booming in value, quirky beach huts fetch thousands and old-fashioned charm (99 i...

Forss House, The North HighlandsLocated in the far north of Scotland, Forss House is set on 20 acres of woodland and sits below a waterfall, on the gently meandering River Forss. With just 13 bedrooms, the house is informal and friendly and has homely roaring log fires in winter....

Beach Retreats chooses all its properties for their proximity to an amazing beach, whether it’s the surf paradise of Watergate Bay, Porth, Polzeath, Fistral, Mawgan Porth or the Camel Estuary. From tranquil beach houses to cottages on rugged coasts, they’re all set in stunning lo...

The sun is shining (on-and-off!) and school's out for summer, so the timing couldn’t be better for Love Parks Week 2011. From July 23–31 everyone can enjoy the best their local park has to offer with a whole host of outdoor activities up and down the country celebrating our fabul...

If you ever stop to ponder how people managed to communicate in a world before email and iPhones, pay a visit to the place where it all began, Porthcurno Telegraph Museum. Discover the Victorian coded system that revolutionised communication forever and may well have won us the w...

It would be quite a feat to find a child (or indeed adult) who doesn’t have a soft spot for cheeky monkeys and affable apes. Lithe and lively, they simply love to lark around, but they also need our help and protection. Monkey World in Dorset helps to rehabilitate primates who ha...

Standing proud in a sprawling 600 acre site, Westonbirt Arboretum is home to one of the worlds finest collections of trees and shrubs, or as we like to think of them, V.I.T’s (very important trees)Many rare and exotic species from every corner of the globe await discovery within ...

When Tate Movie Project launched an exciting online competition to create a new animation, thousands of children from across the UK took up the challenge and the entries came flooding in. The best drawings were then selected to become part of a collaborative film, produced in con...

sails.The Festival Of Britain really inspires us. It was a showcase for up and coming designers like Terence Conran and Robin and Lucienne Day and shaped British design over the past 60 years. There probably won’t be anything like it again, British

. With features such as a Gothic window from the original church, the property retains its original character, but has luxurious, modern facilities. It sleeps six and costs from £1,111 for a week. If you’d prefer a sea view, you can book The Crag, on Britain’s