Discover Britain - 04.2020

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CONTENTS

Issue 215

Page 78 The sun sets over Ludlow Castle, one of the highlights of our tour of the Shropshire Hills

BRIDGEMAN IMAGES/ALAN COPSON/AWL IMAGES

Regulars

10

ENGLISH ECCENTRICS

Meet history’s most unusual characters

and the places they called home

20

ECCENTRIC HOTELS

From a former prison to sea fort,

Britain’s most unlikely places to stay

28

MY BRITAIN

Bodleian Libraries’ Lucy Gibson on

her favourite spots across the UK

30

THE LAST SHAKESPEARE

350 years after her death, we profile the

Bard’s last surviving descendent

38

GREAT BRITISH

HOLIDAY COMPETITION

Win a VIP trip to London and beyond

40

BONNIE PRINCE

CHARLIE

Was the Young Pretender a royal rogue?

46

FINDING WONDERLAND

Discover the real places that inspired

Lewis Carroll’s fictional dreamworld

56

STRAWBERRY HILL

Our cover feature pays a visit to Horace

Walpole’s fantastical masterpiece

62

ROARING TWENTIES

A century on, we pay homage to the

Art Deco legacy of 1920s London

68

WINCHESTER

Make the most of a visit to this cathedral

city on the edge of the South Downs

70

WITLEY COURT

Explore Britain’s answer to the ancient

Roman ruins, a grand Italianate mansion

78

SHROPSHIRE HILLS

Castles, mansions and dramatic views

on the Anglo-Welsh border

Regulars

7

NEWS

34

SUBSCRIPTIONS

55

DISCOVER

LONDON

77

THE INSIDER

89

CROSSWORD

& BOOKS

90

ONLY IN BRITAIN

Page 40 Meet Scotland’s Bonnie Prince

56

78

90

68

30

77

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4 discoverbritainmag.com

CONTENTS

Issue

Page 78The sun sets over Ludlow Castle, one of the highlights of our tour of the Shropshire Hills

BRIDGEMAN IMAGES/ALAN COPSON/AWL IMAGES

Regulars

10

ENGLISH ECCENTRICS

Meet history’s most unusual characters

and the places they called home

20

ECCENTRIC HOTELS

From a former prison to sea fort,

Britain’s most unlikely places to stay

28

MY BRITAIN

Bodleian Libraries’ Lucy Gibson on

her favourite spots across the UK

30

THE LAST SHAKESPEARE
350 years after her death, we profile the
Bard’s last surviving descendent

38

GREAT BRITISH

HOLIDAY COMPETITION

Win a VIP trip to London and beyond

40

BONNIE PRINCE

CHARLIE

Was the Young Pretender a royal rogue?

46

FINDING WONDERLAND

Discover the real places that inspired

Lewis Carroll’s fictional dreamworld

56

STRAWBERRY HILL

Our cover feature pays a visit to Horace

Walpole’s fantastical masterpiece

62

ROARING TWENTIES

A century on, we pay homage to the

Art Deco legacy of 1920s London

68

WINCHESTER

Make the most of a visit to this cathedral

city on the edge of the South Downs

70

WITLEY COURT

Explore Britain’s answer to the ancient

Roman ruins, a grand Italianate mansion

78

SHROPSHIRE HILLS

Castles, mansions and dramatic views

on the Anglo-Welsh border

Regulars

7

NEWS

34

SUBSCRIPTIONS

55

DISCOVER

LONDON

77

THE INSIDER

89

CROSSWORD

& BOOKS

90

ONLY IN BRITAIN

Page 40 Meet Scotland’s Bonnie Prince

56

78

90

68

30

77

40