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On 14 June 1645 the English Civil War was effectively decided in a field a few miles from Market Harborough. The Royalist army was destroyed at Naseby, Charles I never assembled another like it, and the road that ended at a scaffold in Whitehall four years later began on that ridge. What is remarkable isContinue reading "The Battle of Naseby: Visiting the Battlefield That Decided the Civil War"

Lamport Hall is the Northamptonshire country house that most people drive past, and it has a better claim to fame than almost any of its bigger neighbours. The garden gnome, that fixture of British suburbia, started here in the 1840s, and the original is still on site. Beyond the gnome, this is a house thatContinue reading "Lamport Hall: Visitor Guide, Gardens and the First Garden Gnome"

On 22 August 1485 a king died in a Leicestershire field and a dynasty began. Richard III was the last English king to be killed in battle, Henry Tudor became Henry VII, and the Wars of the Roses effectively ended in the space of a couple of hours. What makes Bosworth unusual as a dayContinue reading "Bosworth Battlefield: Visiting the Site of the Battle of Bosworth"

Leicester is the most underrated city day out in the Midlands, and the reason is that most people only know it for one thing. The Richard III story is genuinely extraordinary, but it is roughly two hours of a day that can comfortably fill eight, and the rest of the city gets almost no attention.Continue reading "Things to Do in Leicester: A Day Trip Guide from Market Harborough (2026)"