Britain on the Cheap

VisitBritain has ramped up its online shop, with new products, including tours in London and around the countryside. There’s also the London Travelcard for unlimited travel on the London Underground. Save 15% off the London Eye after 5 p.m. and 15% off the London Eye River Cruise until June 30. Looking for more ways to [...]

To celebrate Tim Burton’s new hit movie, “Alice in Wonderland,” the National Trust is kicking off an eight-month party at its Antony House in Cornwall near Plymouth. The classic, 18th-century mansion was the only “real” site for the filming of the motion picture. The National Trust is transforming Antony into the fantasy land envisioned by [...]

Robert Sackville-West, 7th Baron Sackville and chairman of Knole Estates, will discuss “The Private Life of a Public Place: 400 Years of the Sackvilles at Knole” March 22 at The Union League of Philadelphia. The Royal Oak Foundation event is $20 for members and non-members, $70 for the lecture and dinner.

Are you infatuated with Emma, Northanger Abbey, Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility? Then the new Wayfarers’ Jane Austen walk through Hampshire may be for you. The walk, rated easy at six to 10 miles a day, will stop at Steventon, home to Jane’s father’s rectory; the village of Chawton, later home of Jane [...]

The Royal Oak Foundation, the American affiliate of the National Trust in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, is sponsoring two lectures during the AVENUE Shows Antiques & Art at the Armory in New York. A Family Affair: Treasures from the Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor will be presented by Dr. Ulrich Leben, Associate Curator of Furniture, [...]

Have you ever yearned to own Sissinghurst Castle Garden or even Snowdonia National Park? It’s all within your grasp with the new National Trust Monopoly, the first charity version of the famous game. The Royal Oak Foundation is selling them for $100, and half of that is a tax-deductible gift to the foundation.

Just in time for Halloween, the National Trust and its American affiliate, Royal Oak Foundation, have gone ghost hunting in their own properties! Lift a glass with your spectral friends at Belfast’s Crown Liquor Saloon on Great Victoria Street in the city center. The pub was a stop for travelers on the Great Northern Railway [...]

Listen! Do you hear whispers luring you to Wales this Halloween? It might be the long-dead spirits of Llancaiaich Fawr Manor, a living history museum that’s set in 1645 and considered one of the 10 most haunted buildings in Britain. It’s said that eight former residents, including soldiers, children and a maid, roam the house [...]

Take a deep breath—it’s UK Peace and Tranquillity Week Sept. 7-13 in Durham. Celebrate the art of relaxation throughout County Durham, which a national tranquillity map compiled by the Campaign to Protect Rural England identified as the fourth-most relaxing place in Britain; North East England was the UK’s most relaxing region. Most of the week’s [...]