A living rainforest inside glass houses near Newbury. It successfully brings together an array of animals, including free ranging butterflies, lizards & birds, and over...

John Carr was an eminent architect of the 18th Century and was commissioned to build this fantastic Palladian mansion for Francis Sykes, a wealthy man...

Beale Park - part of the Child-Beale Trust - isn’t just home to an extraordinary bird collection (including peacocks, swans, owls and parrots) but offers...

The Ridgeway is Britain’s oldest road. Stretching 87 miles, this chalk ridge route was used by prehistoric man, and is still enjoyed today by walkers...

Lardon Chase is owned by the National Trust, from this beautiful spot at the top of Streatley Hill, a panoramic view of Goring on Thames...

The Holies is a picturesque area of woodland and downland in Berkshire, with fantastic views, making it a popular destination for hikers and dog walkers....

Didcot lies halfway between London and Bristol on Brunel’s historic Great Western Railway. The original engine shed is home to a lovingly restored collection of...

This beautiful local history museum is housed in a medieval oak beamed hall-house. The museum has a wide-ranging collection, the focus of which is...

Pendon Museum was founded in 1954 to commemorate in miniature the landscape of the Vale of the White Horse as it was in the 1920’s....

Evidence of mankind roaming Greenham Common has been found dating back to Prehistoric times. With the arrival of cruise missiles in the 1980s, and subsequently...

Dorchester Abbey Museum is housed in two buildings on the site of the Abbey. The Old Schoolroom is part of the abbey’s 14th Century...

The Corn Exchange is a 400 seat theatre based in the centre of the Newbury’s bustling market place. The grade II listed building was first...

The striking, twin-towered gatehouse, plus some defensive Civil War earthworks, are all that remain of this 14th Century castle once owned by Geoffrey Chaucer’s son,...

Most of the buildings that made up Reading Abbey, whose 30-acre site dominated the town from 1121 to its dissolution by Henry VIII in 1539,...

The Forbury Gardens, originally part of Reading Abbey, were laid out between 1856 and 1864. The gardens are dominated by the Maiwand Lion, an 1886...