The Shuttleworth Collection was founded in 1928 by Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth on the site of an old grass aerodrome with eight hangars. The hangars contain a variety of engineering workshops, garages and coach rooms, but in main are home...

Ever wanted to get a true ’birds eye view’ over Bedfordshire? Now you can with the Virgin Hot Air Balloon flights launching from the historic Shuttleworth Mansion close to Biggleswade and Bedford. Fly with the birds for around an hour...

This museum is dedicated to showing the history of this small village in Hertfordshire. Over a period of many years this collection has been brought together and shows many artefacts and documents that relate to this small community in...

Letchworth Garden City was a new concept in design when it was built in the 1940s. The idea of the garden city project was to provide green and self contained environments in which the many people displaced by the...

The Intelligence Corps Museum is located near Shefford in Bedfordshire and offers a fascinating visitor attraction for anyone interested in the military. The museum and visitor centre contains a wealth of information that tells the long and illustrious history...

Letchworth Museum has permanent displays of local wildlife, archaeology including Roman and Celtic finds, and an impressive art gallery that houses our temporary exhibitions that change every month. We are open 10am-5pm, Monday to Friday. Closed Wednesday, Sunday...

Melbourn Bowls Club is a large sporting association that is one of the centrepieces of the village. Many of the locals are members of the club and take great pride in the facility. The teams play against other...

This church is housed in an unusual structure that dominates Orchard Road at the heart of the busy Cambridgeshire village of Melbourn. The church has a large dome on the roof which was designed to allow light into the...

Newton is a charming historic village in the Cambridgeshire countryside. Once an important staging post for those on trips to London and Oxford, the village has a rustic charm that has been almost untouched by the modern age....

Shepreth Park is the principal place of recreation in this charming village. The park and recreation ground is well equipped and well maintained by the local authority. The children’s playground is popular wit younger kids. There is...

St. Margaret’s is a fine church, standing proudly on the edge of the village of Newton in rural Cambridgeshire. The church is set amongst a copse of tree close to Newton Hall and is a wonderful setting for a...

A community of Baptists have been worshipping in the village of Melbourn since 1670. However for many years the Baptist community in the village were persecuted and tortured and it wasn’t until 1853 that this church was constructed for...