For many centuries, people in England and Wales were subject to the payment of tithes – a system by which you gave 10% of your income or produce (such as livestock or crops – known as payment in kind) to the church…

Delving into the history of homes in the UK inevitably reveals many stories of families in Britain in war time – stories of those who served and those who lost their lives, but few reveal a story quite like that of Beach House in South Gloucestershire…

It was lovely to be featured in Country Homes & Interiors in February…

Liz Toth has always felt a strong connection to the stream that flows at the bottom of her garden, which winds its way through the rugged moorlands of rural Cornwall surrounding the 230-year-old stone cottage (previously, two adjoining cottages), Little Gillies, where she lives with her husband, Phil, and their furry companions…

Right of the Bosun’s Locker in Falmouth is one of the most interesting of the town’s ‘opes’ (or alleyways) known as Upton Slip; a particularly narrow ope that runs down steeply from a fan-lit doorway in Church Street. Tucked just behind the Locker, which largely shelters them from the winter east wind, is a charming, three-storey cottage known as Upton’s Cottage…

Lying in the beautiful Lyvennet Valley, near the village of King's Meaburn in Cumbria, is Peaselands, a charming, stone-built, grade II-listed farmhouse, which owners, Caroline Fancott-Beynon and her husband, Andrew (whose family bought the property in 2001) are currently renovating…