The market town of Shrewsbury in Shropshire is surrounded by a loop of the River Severn and has a Welsh Bridge and an English Bridge, which ...

A few years ago we went on a family holiday to Eire, a place where I'd never been before. Our youngest child endures the most terrible s...

Although I live in the English Lake District, sometimes we like to drive where it's quieter, heading out along the Furness Peninsular. T...

A couple of years ago I visited Ruthin and found so many interesting historical buildings in just one street that I simply had to blog about...

A few years ago I read a novel by Marilyn Durham about Ranulf Flambard, who was a minister of William Rufus and was bishop of Durham. The de...