Discover Britain

Celebrating the best of our nation, every issue of Discover Britain is packed with features from history to travel. Read about the events that changed history, as well as British traditions and their origins, or be inspired for your next trip with great ideas for where to go and what to see. Whether you’re planning a weekend city break or an escape to the countryside, Discover Britain is your essential guide to getting the most out of your stay.

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Discover Britain

Brit Edit • Your curated guide to Britain this season

Over to you... • One reader plans a special trip and Inspector Morse gets a look in. Our pick of our reader letters this issue

DISCOVER THE EAST OF ENGLAND

SHIVER ME TIMBERS • Emma Longstaff goes in search of Suffolk’s most atmospheric timber-framed buildings you can stay in

Back to nature • Jeremy Flint visits Holkham Hall, in Norfolk, to meet the man tasked with making the vast estate more sustainable

Cambridge • Though younger than its rival, Oxford, this university city has no shortage of its own history

The FRIENDLY INVASION • Clare Boobyer tells the story of the GIs whose arrival caused quite a commotion in rural East Anglia during the Second World War

Curiouser & curiouser • In this extract from new book The A-Z of Curious Norfolk, writer Sarah E Doig tells of some terrifying Norfolk superstitions and Devilish stories

From Coast to COUNTRYSIDE • Where Swallows and Amazons meet lambs and pheasants. Sally Coffey brings you the best of rural Norfolk

An English country retreat • A stay in the boutique Rectory Manor hotel offers a taste of the good life, says Clare White

The best of THE EAST • From Anglo-Saxon treasures and medieval castles to the home of one of Britain’s best-loved composers, Henrietta Easton on the places to visit in East Anglia

Win an elegant hotel stay in Suffolk • Your chance to stay in the heart of the historic county in a choice of three hotels

Cotswolds Diary • Columnist Caroline Mills has a difficult decision to make on her family farm

LOOK around YOU • Marian Jones goes in search of Christopher Wren’s finest buildings 300 years after his death

Carving a royal Career • Diana Wright meets the man trusted with carving the heraldic emblems for two of the oldest British Orders of Chivalry

The ways of the dead • Richard Mellor investigates medieval Britain’s old corpse roads – routes along which bodies were lugged before burial, under threat of flame balls, ghosts, and witches…

London SPOTLIGHT • This issue Londonphile Russell Higham raises a glass to that most highly regarded of British institutions: the public house

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