A historic building is set to be sold after more than a century of community use. The Cartmel Institute, situated in the heart of the village, was purchased in 1864 by Reverend Holgate and given to ...

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A PRESTIGIOUS spa based inside a stunning 250-year-old building has been forced to close down. Devonshire Spa in Derbyshire, the highest-ranked wellness facility in the historic town, will shut ...

The Crystal Palace was a wonder of the world, built for the Great Exhibition of 1851. It was the largest glass building ever ...

Even members of the ducal family have delighted in botany and natural history: Georgiana, the 5th Duchess, collected fossils and minerals and Emma Tennant, sister of the 11th Duke of Devonshire, has a ...

Lady Elizabeth-Christiana Hervey was a fascinating 18th-century woman whose life was defined by sadness, scandal and eventual fulfilment as a ...

Elizabethan manor houses, Baroque palaces and impregnable fortresses: England has an extraordinarily rich legacy. Here are ...

The museum is housed in what was the family home for the famous Beamish brewing dynasty, built in 1845 on riverside land purchased from the Duke of Devonshire. Now, as the museum celebrates it's 80th ...

Not much is known about the subject of the historic photograph. The oldest known photo of an Irish Famine survivor was taken by photographer John Gregory Grace in 1853. The man, a laborer ...