Henry VIII
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Canterbury is a direct train or bus ride from Dover and is home to England’s first cathedral, where Thomas Becket was murdered. Here is how to get there from your ship, what it costs and how to plan the day.
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Forty Hall in Enfield is a free Jacobean manor house built by a future Lord Mayor of London, set in a 273-acre estate above the buried remains of a Tudor royal palace.
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Titchfield Abbey in Hampshire is a free-to-enter ruin where a medieval abbey became a Tudor mansion, with a turreted gatehouse, medieval floor tiles and a Shakespeare tradition to weigh up.
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Three day trips from the Welsh capital, from the biggest castle in Wales to a ruined Cistercian abbey on the Wye and a seaside town two hours away by train. Here is what each one costs, how to reach it without a car, and which suits the day you have.
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Twelve monks from France, a river that kept flooding and a king who stayed for Holy Week: the story of Britain’s first Cistercian abbey, now a free ruin beside the River Wey near Farnham.
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A hillside manor once used by the Abbots of Gloucester, granted away by Henry VIII and given to Benedictine monks nearly four centuries later. Here is its story, and how to visit today.
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A Cistercian abbey founded after a storm at sea and made famous by a relic that drew pilgrims from far and wide, until Henry VIII’s reformers declared it a fake.
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Henry VIII’s favourite palace, seized from Cardinal Wolsey and later remodelled by Christopher Wren — here’s the deep history and everything you need to actually plan a visit, ice rink and hedge maze included.