London
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A Stuart riverside mansion where a duchess carried coded royalist letters, a duke advised Charles II and Bridgerton later staged a ball. Here is its story and how to visit.
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Horace Walpole built a little Gothic castle in Twickenham that inspired a novel, a genre and a century of architecture, then nearly lost it all. Here is its story and how to visit.
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London’s great Dissenters’ burial ground holds Blake, Bunyan and Defoe among 123,000 burials, and it costs nothing to walk through. Here is who lies where, and what you can actually reach.
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Two musicians, two centuries apart, and one wall between their front doors: Handel’s Georgian home and Hendrix’s 1960s flat on Brook Street, visited on a single ticket.
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Older than the Tower of London next door, this City church holds a Saxon arch, a Roman floor, a crypt museum and the tower Pepys climbed to watch London burn.
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One continuous route, on foot, from Buckingham Palace to the Tower of London, taking in nine of the city’s best-known landmarks in the order they actually sit on the map. No app, no guide, no ticket needed to follow it — just this page and a decent pair of shoes.
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No ticket, no booking, no guide required: three real addresses tell the Beatles’ London story end to end, from a Georgian townhouse turned recording studio to a rooftop where they played their last ever show. One of those buildings is finally opening its doors in 2027, for the first time since the 1970s.
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London’s two biggest airports sit on opposite sides of the city with no rail line between them. Here’s how the coach, the train and a private car compare when you’ve a flight to catch and bags to drag.
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How much alcohol, tobacco and other goods you can bring into Great Britain without paying duty — the official personal allowance limits, what happens if you go over, and what you can’t bring in no matter what.
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England’s eight 2026 bank holidays, what actually closes on each one, and the one day of the year London’s entire transport network stops running altogether.