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...

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...

The British Schools Museum is a fascinating collection that has been put together over a period of many years. It is dedicated to the development of the schools of this country and looks at the way that education methods...

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...

Hitchin Museum and Art Gallery is located at the heart of the community and is made up of a large collection of historic pieces and artefacts that relate to the long and fascinating history of the area. The gallery...

Houghton House offers fantastic views across the Bedfordshire countryside towards Bedford and beyond. Operated by English Heritage, all that remains of this charming 17th Century mansion is the outer shell, but still the architectural prowess and the grandeur of...

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...

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...

These gardens are some of the best arranged and kept in the country, and are a real secret gem of the Bedfordshire countryside. The gardens have a long and fascinating history that dates back to early Victorian times, having...

The de Grey Mausoleum is one of the largest sepulchral chapels attached to any church in the country. The building contains a series of seventeen sculpted edifices that span the years 1615 to 1899. Each statue represents one...