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TravelOld Burghley House has 115 rooms and a roof that covers three quarters of an acreWilliam Cecil’s house holds 115 rooms under three quarters of an acre of roof, and the public circuit alone runs to more than a quarter of a mile.
TravelChristopher Wren studied astronomy and then rebuilt London after it burned downChristopher Wren, born 394 years ago next Tuesday, had studied science and astronomy rather than architecture when he was handed 51 churches and a cathedral to build.
TravelVisitors still leave dolls for the ghost of a girl under Edinburgh’s Royal MileWith Halloween under three weeks away, Auld Reekie offers a headless drummer at the castle, a prison site locals still spit on and a buried street you can only see by tour.
TravelThe Mayor of Casterbridge can still be walked scene by scene through modern DorchesterMichael Henchard's house on South Street is a branch of Barclays now, but the King's Arms still pours and the Maumbury Rings still swallow the noise of the traffic.
TravelAsk at this Winchester almshouse and you still get free bread and beer, tourists includedThe Wayfarer's Dole has been handed out at the Hospital of St Cross for centuries, and the ale these days is a London Pride donated by Fuller's.
TravelNewtonmore’s 80-acre folk museum lets you walk into a Highland village from 1700The Highland Folk Museum recreates three centuries of Scottish rural life on an open air site where every building is either an original or an exact period replica, and admission costs nothing.
TravelLiverpool’s Beatles trail still rocks 66 years after those first Cavern nightsAutumn 1960 saw four local lads begin a run of 296 shows in a basement club, and the city they came from has been drawing pilgrims ever since.
TravelFour Cistercian abbeys reveal how the White Monks transformed YorkshireDiscover where Yorkshire's most powerful medieval monasteries rose and fell.TravelFollow Lizzie Bennet to Pemberley on an autumn journey through Austen’s Peak DistrictFrom the golden steps of Blenheim Palace to the windswept rocks of Derbyshire, the real places behind "Pride and Prejudice" still enchant travellers two centuries on
TravelDiscover Britain’s ten finest museums where living history shinesThese immersive attractions bring centuries of British history to life through authentic recreations and skilled interpreters.