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Wroxeter Roman City visitor guide: Opening hours, tickets, and how to plan your visit

Wroxeter Roman City (ancient name: Viroconium Cornoviorum) is the site of the fourth-largest city in Roman Britain, near Shrewsbury in Shropshire, managed by English Heritage. This guide covers opening hours, ticket prices, transport, parking, accessibility, and practical visitor tips. This guide was last updated in…

Goodrich Castle visitor guide: Opening hours, tickets, and how to plan your visit

Goodrich Castle is a ruined medieval castle near Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire, managed by English Heritage as a paid visitor attraction. This guide covers opening hours, ticket prices, transport, parking, accessibility, and practical visitor tips for planning your visit. This guide was last updated in March…

Furness Abbey in Cumbria, North-West England.

Furness Abbey visitor guide: Opening hours, tickets, and how to plan your visit

Furness Abbey is a ruined Cistercian monastery in a wooded valley on the north-eastern edge of Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria, managed by English Heritage. This guide covers opening hours, ticket prices, transport, parking, accessibility, and practical visitor tips for planning your visit. This guide was last…

Aston Hall, Birmingham: Ticket prices, hours and tips – plan your visit

Aston Hall is a highly preserved 17th-century Jacobean mansion situated within the public grounds of Aston Park in Birmingham. This guide covers opening hours, ticket prices, transport, parking, accessibility, and practical visitor tips. This comprehensive visitor guide was updated in May 2026 to confirm that…

Sarehole Mill in Birmingham, West Midlands.

Sarehole Mill, Birmingham: Ticket prices, hours and tips – plan your visit

Sarehole Mill is a historic, 250-year-old working watermill and museum situated on Cole Bank Road in the Hall Green area of Birmingham. This guide covers opening hours, ticket prices, transport, parking, accessibility, and practical visitor tips. This comprehensive visitor guide was updated in May 2026.…

Anne Hathaway's Cottage in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire.

Anne Hathaway’s Cottage, Stratford-upon-Avon: Ticket prices, hours and tips – plan your visit

Anne Hathaway's Cottage is a 15th-century thatched farmhouse at 22 Cottage Lane, Shottery, Stratford-upon-Avon. It was the childhood home of Anne Hathaway, who married William Shakespeare in 1582. Managed by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, it is open to the public as a heritage attraction with…

Seals on the journey to Staffa in Scotland.

The best places to see seals in Scotland: Your complete guide

Scotland has two resident seal species: the grey seal and the smaller harbour seal (also called the common seal). Combined, they account for roughly 40 per cent of the world's grey seal population and around 30 per cent of Europe's harbour seals. In short, Scotland…

Liverpool Beatles Museum, Liverpool: Ticket prices, hours and tips – plan your visit

The Liverpool Beatles Museum is an extensive collection of authentic band memorabilia located on Mathew Street in the centre of Liverpool. This guide covers opening hours, ticket prices, transport or parking, accessibility, and practical visitor tips. To skip queues on the door, book your Liverpool…

Strawberry Field, Liverpool: Ticket prices, hours and tips – plan your visit

Strawberry Field is an interactive visitor exhibition and garden space operated by The Salvation Army, located on Beaconsfield Road in the Woolton suburb of Liverpool. This guide covers opening hours, ticket prices, transport or parking, accessibility, and practical visitor tips. To skip the queues and…

The Cunard Building in Liverpool - home to the British Music Experience.

British Music Experience, Liverpool: ticket prices, hours and tips – plan your visit

The British Music Experience (BME) is a permanent museum dedicated to the history of British popular music from 1945 to the present day, located in the Grade II listed Cunard Building on Liverpool's Pier Head waterfront. This guide covers opening hours, ticket prices, how to…