CorshamThere are some delightful places and hidden gems on the South-Western edge of the Cotswolds. The other day, when travelling along the A4 otherwise known as the Great West Road, we stopped to ...

In Windsor some years ago I attended a training course for Blue Badge Tour Guides.  My colleagues and I were learning about the history of Windsor castle and how to show ...

  I was delighted to be asked to be the Blue Badge Tour Guide for a holiday group from Kent who had booked a short break holiday in the Midlands.  ...

  Chastleton House:  Hilary Mantel's award winning historical novel Wolf Hall, chronicling the rise of Thomas Cromwell, was mainly filmed on location in South ...

    To be able to travel back in time and see a man-made Neolithic landscape that is over 5,000 years old is pretty incredible.  The stone circle at ...

My coach group were all avid fans of the television series Downton Abbey and had admitted to being glued to their television sets on Sunday evenings to watch the popular ...

  During this year we will be celebrating the 800th anniversary of the sealing of Magna Carta, otherwise known as the Great Charter. On 15th June 1215 King John reluctantly ...

No holiday in the county of Gloucestershire should be without a visit to the city of Gloucester to experience its fascinating history and heritage. Church of St Nicholas When ...

  I'm often asked to take people on guided tours around Stratford-on-Avon to see William Shakespeare's birthplace and the other properties with the Shakespeare ...

As a Cotswold Blue Badge Tour Guide, I love anniversaries as it highlights the importance of our visitor attractions and encourages people to visit or revisit the ...

      Although the English summer has ended, there's still lots to see and do in and around Gloucestershire. This last week I've taken several groups on guided ...

A top tourist attraction in the Heart of England is Warwick Castle, one of the best examples of a medieval castle in England.  It provides a wonderful day out for people of all ages.Warwick ...

It was a cold, blustery, dark and eerie evening when I met 23 members of the Cheltenham branch of the Federation of Small Businesses for a stiff drink at the Plough Inn, Prestbury in Gloucestershire. ...

This fine statue on the Promenade in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire is of local hero Dr Edward Wilson who went on two Polar Expeditions to the Antarctic with Capt. Robert Falcon Scott. The ...

Charles Dickens (7th Feb 1812 - 9th June 1870)  On the 7th February 2012 we will be celebrating the bicentenary of  the birth of one of the most influential, widely read, ...

My souvenir programmefor the 400th anniversaryThis year, in Gloucestershire, we have been looking forward to the 400th anniversary of  Robert Dover's Cotswold Olimpicks, a much ...