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10 Somerset pubs to enjoy a drink with a view

Enjoy stunning views at the Hare & Hounds, near Bath

Somerset Life

Elizabeth Hartland

Boasting a diverse landscape of beautiful coastline, iconic landmarks and rolling countryside, there are plenty of gorgeous views to soak up while in Somerset. We pick 10 charming pubs where you can gaze out upon the county’s beauty

M72GR8 Picnic on a summer at Rievaulx Abbey the first Cistercian monastery in the north of England,

Yorkshire Life

5 great countryside picnics spots in Yorkshire

Kathryn Armstrong

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Thornbridge Hall and lawns

Derbyshire Life

Behind the scenes at the grounds of Thornbridge Hall in...

Viv Micklefield

Wild flower meadow, Corn cockle, Corn flower, Centaurea montana, Agrostemma githago, Poppy, Papaver

Cheshire Life

The complete guide to enjoying wildlife in Cheshire this summer

Rachel Bradshaw

Dan plating up his sumptuous dessert

Lancashire Life

Chef Dan McGeorge on his Great British Menu appearance and the future of...

Emma Mayoh

Go back to the times of the famous author at the Jane Austen Centre

Somerset Life

9 locations every Jane Austen fan should visit in Bath

Martha Griffiths

Tyntesfield, near Bristol (c) JeremyTaylor / Getty Images

Somerset Life

10 stunning stately homes to visit in Somerset

Elizabeth Hartland

Unwind and recline comfortably in front of the roaring fire at The Wheatsheaf, Combe Hay

Somerset Life

19 cosy pubs to visit in Somerset

Elizabeth Hartland

The pool and outside deck at Orchard Barn

Norfolk Magazine

Three fabulous Norfolk homes for sale with swimming pools

Dominic Castle

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Somerset Life

20 great family days out in Somerset

Elizabeth Hartland

Circo Bar and Lounge (c) Neil Watson

Somerset Life

8 of the best cocktail bars in Bath

Daisy Mccorgray

Wooden lighthouse from 1932 standing tall on stilts at a Somerset beach

Somerset Life

12 of Somerset’s beautiful beaches to explore

Elizabeth Hartland

Taunton (c) Christian Mueller / Shutterstock

Somerset Life

20 hidden gems around Taunton

Martha Griffiths

Clevedon Somerset England pier and seafront at coast town near Bristol and Weston-super-mare

Somerset Life

5 things to do in Somerset this weekend

Martha Griffiths

Thatched cottage in Selworthy (c) bbofdon / Shutterstock

Somerset Life

Somerset villages: 9 of the prettiest to visit

Elizabeth Hartland

Golf helps you keep fit and active. A player can walk 4-5 miles and burn 900 calories over 18 holes

Hampshire Life

How to get into ladies golf in Hampshire

Hampshire Life

The Perseid meteor shower and Milky Way as seen over Singleton in West Sussex

Sussex Life

Best places for Stargazing in Sussex

Cate Crafter

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A selection of Surrey's best cocktail bars (Photo: Getty Images/iStockphoto/karandaev)

Surrey Life

10 of the best cocktail bars in Surrey

Surrey Life

Stage in the Park returns to Watford this summer.

Fun family things to do in Hertfordshire in August

Staff Writer

Cruise past Tower Bridge on the Tilbury to London Uber Boat this August.

Travel Features

Planning a day trip to London? Why not sail into the capital by...

Zita Whalley

Inspired by Indo-Islamic architecture of the Mughal Empire, Brighton Pavilion is one of Sussex's most instagrammble locations

Sussex Life

10 of the most Instagrammable locations in Sussex

Cate Crafter

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Ice-cream on sticks, with pieces of pineapple on a blue table cloth

Somerset Life

Recipe: Easy ice-cream

Yeo Valley

16th April 2021, London Aquatics Centre, London, England ; 2021 British Swimming Selection Trials

Olympics

Who is going for gold in Tokyo?

Andy Greeves

Person running with vitamin patch from the VitCo in Preston

Lancashire Life | Promotion

Top 5 health benefits of vitamin patches

Chad Holroyd

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Lesley Waters

Dorset Magazine

Podcast with TV chef and cookery writer Lesley Waters

Helen Stiles

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The Glasson branch of the Lancaster Canal

Lancashire Life

10 great circular walks in Lancashire

Lancashire Life

Bashall Spirits gin

Lancashire Life | Win

Win the full range of Bashall Spirits Gins

Bashall Spirits

A fair ground ride where people sit in hanging chairs and whirl in a circle

Devon Life

15 festivals and shows happening this summer in Devon

Martha Griffiths

HarBAR Kitchen, Bar & Terrace

Cornwall Life

20 of the best places to eat out in St Ives

Martha Griffiths

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Padley Gorge by Keith Meredith

Derbyshire Life

6 waterfall walks in Derbyshire and the Peak District

Derbyshire Life

Catrigg Force by John Wood

Yorkshire Life

12 beautiful waterfalls in Yorkshire

Vijay Arogyasami

The Glasshouse at the Grove in Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire Life

20 of the best restaurants in Hertfordshire

Victoria Purcell

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Bella has been waiting 450 days to find a forever home

Surrey Life

Can you rehome Surrey’s loneliest dog?

Jane Thynne

Food And Drink

Chef Dan McGeorge on his Great British Menu appearance and the future of Rothay Manor,

Dan plating up his sumptuous dessert

Lancashire Life

Emma Mayoh

Dan McGeorge, the head chef at Ambleside's Rothay Manor, has been creating impressive food for years, but his appearance on Great British Menu really put him in the spotlight.

Ice-cream on sticks, with pieces of pineapple on a blue table cloth

Somerset Life

Recipe: Easy ice-cream

Yeo Valley

Lesley Waters

Dorset Magazine

Podcast with TV chef and cookery writer Lesley Waters

Helen Stiles

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Bashall Spirits gin

Lancashire Life | Win

Win the full range of Bashall Spirits Gins

Bashall Spirits

Artic char, potted shrimps, cauliflower, curried mead veloute made by Ryan Blackburn

Lancashire Life

Behind the scenes at the best restaurant in the world

Emma Mayoh

Home Interiors

2021 home flooring trends: 4 ways floor styles are evolving

Natural stone flooring at Boniti showroom in Dorset

Dorset Magazine | Promotion

Chad Holroyd

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Kayleigh Murphy, marketing manager at Boniti in Dorset, explains four of the latest trends in flooring.

Internal glass home lift designed and installed by Access Lifts in Dorset

Devon Life | Promotion

Designing your perfect house: why a home lift is a must-have feature

Lauren Knight

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Graham Jones, who founded online houseplant shop deliveroot in 2020, and has a stall in Knutsford Market Hall

Living Edge

Why invest money and time in houseplants?

Kate Houghton

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Club sofa upholstered in kilim material beneath glass-fronted pink cabinet.

Devon Life

Inside the colourful Devon home of a top interior design artist

Amanda Harling

Kitchen interior of a holiday home in Salcombe.

Devon Life

11 top tips for refurbishing or refreshing your Devon holiday home

Andy Cooper

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Gardening

Taming the wild - creating a garden from scratch

Ornamental poppies

Hertfordshire Life

Philippa Pearson

Moving to an ancient manor house near Ware, a couple transformed acres of field and scrub into a magical country garden. ‘A lot of it resembled a rough bumpy field, complete with large areas of brambles, stinging nettles and thistles,' says...

View across the walkway to Scotch Quarry Community Garden

Lancashire Life

Exploring the secret gardens of Lancaster

Louise Bryning

Colourful summer borders in the gardens at Nymans, West Sussex.

Sussex Life

How to plant a National Trust style herbaceous border

Faye Bartle

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The Golden Rose Walk at Chartwell created in 1958 for Winston & Mrs Churchill to commemorate their G

Kent Life

Gardening tips from Kent's National Trust gardeners

Anna Lambert

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The RHS Hyde Hall garden centre in Chelmsford, Essex in England.

Essex Life | Promotion

5 benefits of shopping local for your garden

Victoria Chapman

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Lifestyle

Top 5 health benefits of vitamin patches

Person running with vitamin patch from the VitCo in Preston

Lancashire Life | Promotion

Chad Holroyd

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Jack Taylor, owner of the VitCo, explains some of the wellness advantages of using vitamin patches.

After and before results of the Morpheus8 treatment performed on the lower face at the Vie Aesthetics clinic in Essex.

Essex Life | Promotion

The benefits of the non-surgical skin treatment used by Kim Kardashian

Victoria Chapman

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The G&H Spirits My Time Now gin gift set is worth £114

Sussex Life | Win

Win a G&H Spirits gin set with Sussex Life

Faye Bartle

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Student exercising to maintain her mental health at Wakefield Grammar School in Yorkshire, England.

Yorkshire Life | Promotion

How you can support your child’s mental health through their education

Victoria Chapman

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The grave for Dinah Maxey and Elizabeth Smith at Hainford: both women were poisoned

Heritage

Norfolk's historic double murder mystery: who poisoned a mother and...

Stacia Briggs

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People

Who is going for gold in Tokyo?

16th April 2021, London Aquatics Centre, London, England ; 2021 British Swimming Selection Trials

Olympics

Andy Greeves

As this summer’s Olympic Games in Tokyo get underway, we reveal which Somerset athletes will be flying the flag for country and county Brodie Williams will be competing in the 400m individual medley. The 22-year-old grew up in Street, where he...

Emma Corrin in The Crown, filmed at Elstree

Hertfordshire Life

Britain's Tinseltown: the return of Hollywood to Herts

Richard Burton

Filming the performance in Ambleside Parish Church

New music by young composers celebrates William Wordsworth

Paul Mackenzie

Hannah Mills is competing with Eilidh McIntyre in the 470 class

Dorset Magazine

Who are the Dorset athletes at the Tokyo Olympics?

Helen Stiles

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Where to see the Perseids meteor shower in Surrey

Surrey Life

Where to go stargazing in Surrey

Cate Crafter

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Things To Do

The complete guide to enjoying wildlife in Cheshire this summer

Wild flower meadow, Corn cockle, Corn flower, Centaurea montana, Agrostemma githago, Poppy, Papaver

Cheshire Life

Rachel Bradshaw

Cheshire Wildlife Trust takes a tour of the sights and sounds that make summer in the county naturally uplifting.

Cruise past Tower Bridge on the Tilbury to London Uber Boat this August.

Travel Features

Planning a day trip to London? Why not sail into the capital by...

Zita Whalley

Stage in the Park returns to Watford this summer.

Fun family things to do in Hertfordshire in August

Staff Writer

Simon Bassett enjoying the conditions on his windsurf board at West Wittering beach

Sussex Life

6 water sports to try in West Sussex

Faye Bartle

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St. John the Baptist, Tideswell

Derbyshire Life

6 great walks near Tideswell

Derbyshire Life

Travel

5 great countryside picnics spots in Yorkshire

M72GR8 Picnic on a summer at Rievaulx Abbey the first Cistercian monastery in the north of England,

Yorkshire Life

Kathryn Armstrong

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If you love big views and green spaces head to the hills for some fresh air feasting fun. We've also added some walk suggestions from our archive to help you make a day of it.

Thornbridge Hall and lawns

Derbyshire Life

Behind the scenes at the grounds of Thornbridge Hall in...

Viv Micklefield

Cruise past Tower Bridge on the Tilbury to London Uber Boat this August.

Travel Features

Planning a day trip to London? Why not sail into the capital by...

Zita Whalley

Inspired by Indo-Islamic architecture of the Mughal Empire, Brighton Pavilion is one of Sussex's most instagrammble locations

Sussex Life

10 of the most Instagrammable locations in Sussex

Cate Crafter

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The Perseid meteor shower and Milky Way as seen over Singleton in West Sussex

Sussex Life

Best places for Stargazing in Sussex

Cate Crafter

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What's On

The complete guide to enjoying wildlife in Cheshire this summer

Wild flower meadow, Corn cockle, Corn flower, Centaurea montana, Agrostemma githago, Poppy, Papaver

Cheshire Life

Rachel Bradshaw

Cheshire Wildlife Trust takes a tour of the sights and sounds that make summer in the county naturally uplifting.

Stage in the Park returns to Watford this summer.

Fun family things to do in Hertfordshire in August

Staff Writer

A crowd watches an event on stage, a child dances to the music on his parent's shoulders

Cornwall Life

12 festivals happening this summer in Cornwall

Martha Griffiths

A fair ground ride where people sit in hanging chairs and whirl in a circle

Devon Life

15 festivals and shows happening this summer in Devon

Martha Griffiths

Guests attending the Fresh: Art Fair at Coombe Gallery.

Cotswold Life | Promotion

7 great ways to get the most out of Fresh: Art Fair in Cheltenham

Victoria Chapman

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