Travel Tips
Southwark Cathedral – London – A guide to visiting
CategoriesLondon Landmarks, UK Destinations TagsA Royal wedding, Augustine Canons, bishop of Winchester, Borough market, Cambridge, Cardinal Henry Beaufort, Cathedral, Diocese of Southwark, Diocese of Winchester, Domesday book, Dr Lionel Lockyear, Early history of Southwark Cathedral, Edward VII, Emmanuel college, Gothic architecture, Harvard Chapel, Harvard University, Henry I, History of Southwark Cathedral, John Gower, John Harvard, […]
A guide to the Three Castles – Monmouthshire
CategoriesUK Destinations TagsCadw, Chief Justiciar, Earl of Hereford, Earl of Lancaster, Edmund ‘Crouchback’ Earl of Lancaster, English border, Grosmont Castle, History of the Three Castles, Hubert de Burgh, King John I, Llantilio Castle, Medieval Architecture, Monmouthshire, Monnow Valley, Motte, Motte & Bailey Castles, National Trust, Norman castles, Norman Motte & Bailey Castles, Owain Glyndwr, Palisade, […]
Usk Castle – Usk’s Hidden Gem – Usk
CategoriesUK Destinations TagsAdam of Usk, Adam of Usk Chronicles, battle of Bannockburn, Battle of Pwll Melyn, Burrium, Cadw, Castle, Castles, Clare College, Earls of Pembroke, Elizabeth de Burgh, Enchanting and hidden gem, Gilbert de Clare 7th Earl of Gloucester, Henry II, Henry IV, Houses, Hywel ap Iowerth, Isabella de Clare, King Henry IV, Monmouthshire, motte […]
Abergavenny Castle – Museum in Abergavenny
CategoriesUK Destinations Tags19th century Abergavenny Castle, 1st Earl of Hereford, 4th Lord of Bramber, Abergavenny Castle, Abergavenny Castle & Owain Glyndwr, Abergavenny Castle history, Abergavenny Castle Today, Abergavenny Museum, Blorenge mountain, Brian Fitz Count, Christmas Massacre 1175, Civil war at Abergavenny Castle, De Cantilupe, English Civil War, Eva De Braose, Free to enter, Hamelin de […]
St Mary’s Priory – Anglican church in Abergavenny
CategoriesUK Destinations TagsAbbey of St Vincent, Abergavenny, Abergavenny Castle, altarpiece, Barley Studios, Barley Studios York, Bath Abbey, battle of Crecy, Battle of Sluys, Cantilupe, Dr David Lewis, Eva De Braose, Hamelin de Ballon, Helen Whittaker, Herbert Chapel, Jesse, Jesse Carving, Jesus College, Le Mans, Margaret Plantagenet, Norman church, Normandy, Oxford University, reredos, Saint Benedict, Sir […]
Tintern Abbey, Cadw, Historical Site, National Landmark
CategoriesUK Destinations TagsAdam of Usk Chronicles, Chepstow, Cistercian Abbey, Cistercian Order, Dissolution of the Monasteries, Earl of Worcester, English Literature, Forde Abbey, Founding of Tintern Abbey, Gothic Masterpiece, Henry Somerset, Historical Landmark, Iconic Tintern Abbey, Kingswood Abbey, Lines composed a few miles from Tintern, Monmouth, Monmouthshire, National Icon, Observations on the River Wye, Picturesque, Raglan, […]
Guide to Exeter Cathedral, City of Exeter, Southwest England
CategoriesUK Destinations Tags2nd Earl of Devon, Admission prices, Astronomical Clock, Bishop of Exeter, Bishop Walter Stapledon, Bishop’s Throne, Cathedral, Devon, Devon Life, Exeter, Exeter Cathedral, Exeter Cathedral History, Exeter Cathedral Tombs, Exeter Council, Exeter views, Fascinating features, Founding of Exeter Cathedral, full of history, Great East Window, Hugh Courtenay, Leofric, Medieval vault, Minstrels’ Gallery, Norman […]
Tuckers Hall – Historic Building in Exeter
CategoriesUK Destinations TagsAdmission prices to Tuckers Hall, Beadle, Beginnings, Educational Tuckers Hall, Exeter corn exchange, Fore Street, Fullers and Shearmen, Grant of Arms, Historic Building in Exeter, Incorporation of Weavers, loom, Master Weavers, Modernisation, Phrases, Reformation, Revolution, Royal Charter, Shearman, shuttle, St Nicholas Priory, St Olave’s Church, The Golden Age, Tuckers, Tuckers Hall, Tuckers Hall […]
Rimini, City in Italy, Emilia-Romagna
CategoriesEurope TagsArch of Augustus, Castel Sismondo, City in northern italy, Emilia-Romagna, Federico Fellini, Getting to Rimini, In Emilia Romagna, La dolce Vita, Leon Battista Alberti, lord Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, Malatesta da Verucchio, Malatesta Temple, Marecchia basin, More to Rimini than the beach, Piazza Tre Martiri, Pope Paul V, Renaissance Remini, Rimini, Rimini famous beaches, Rimini […]
More to Pisa than it’s iconic ‘Leaning Tower’
CategoriesEurope, Italy TagsArchbishop Federigo Visconti, Baptistery, Bonanno Pisano, Camposanto Monumentale, Chiesa di Santa Maria della Spina, City in Italy, Cosimo de’ Medici, del Buontalenti, Galileo Galilei, knights square, Leaning Tower of Pisa, Logge dei Banchi, Logge dei Mercanti, Medici Capital, Medici in Florence, Metropolitan Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary, Palazzo dell’Orologio, Piazza dei Cavalieri, […]