Heritage visits

Highclere Castle

Unusable rooms, a lost village and Tutankhamun: the secrets of Downton Abbey’s Highclere Castle

The battle of Agincourt, 1415

True-to-scale battle numbers and 15th-century life: look inside the revamped Agincourt museum

St Mary's Church is revered as one of England's greatest architectural achievements. (Image by Alamy)

Explore A masterpiece of Gothic grandeur: the Church of St Mary, Warwick

Akershus Festning in Oslo, Norway

Travel Explore Oslo, Norway: Myths, Munch and fjord-side strolls

The magnificent gilded Shwedagon Pagoda, claimed to be 2,500 years old, dominates central Yangon, Myanmar's largest city. (Patrick Foto/Getty Images)

Explore Yangon, Myanmar: City of Golden Pagodas

The engine houses of Botallack mine in Cornwall

A visit to Botallack Mine, Cornwall

Colourful wooden houses in Old Nuuk, Greenland

Explore Nuuk: the rainbow capital of Greenland

Aerial view of Dover Castle

Explore Explore Dover Castle: Britain’s first line of defence

Changdeokgung Palace in South Korea

Travel Seoul, South Korea: a modern metropolis rising from ruins

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Building RMS Titanic: exploring Belfast’s “world-leading” shipbuilding heritage

Winchester Cathedral

From King Alfred to Jane Austen: a historical tour of Winchester

The HMS Victory in Portsmouth

A visit to HMS Victory, Nelson’s flagship at Trafalgar

Chatsworth House, where Elizabeth I ordered for Mary, Queen of Scots to be imprisoned after she abdicated and fled from Scotland to England in 1567. (Photo by Chatsworth House Trust)

Britain’s 7 most amazing stately homes

The ruins of Dunluce Castle, which sit on the coastal cliffs of North Antrim in Northern Ireland. They are thought to have been the inspiration for CS Lewis’s castle Cair Paravel in ‘The Chronicles of Narnia’ (1950–56). (Photo by Andrea Ricordi/Contributor/Getty Images)

9 of Britain’s best castles

St Fagans Castle and gardens

A visit to St Fagans National Museum of History, Cardiff