A very interesting but ultimately sad relic lies in a Wiltshire churchyard. The Church of Mary Magdalene in Winterbourne Monkton has a...

The twisted spire of the Church of St Mary and All Saints is a familiar site for visitors to the town of Chesterfield. How did it end up...

The town of Tamworth was the seat of Mercian power during much of the Anglo-Saxon era, used by Offa and the Lady Æthelflaed as a royal...

I was recently a guest on the Beastly Theories podcast created by Andy McGrath. Andy is the author of "Beasts of Britain" and "Beasts of...

This tympanum with very dramatic imagery resides inside St Leonard's Church in the Staffordshire village of Ipstones. Looked at in a...

The blindhouse, the lockup, the roundhouse, they went by several names. These were small buildings which acted as a cell where unruly...

These two megaliths stand alone in a field almost a mile from the Avebury stone circle. Known today as the Adam and Eve stones, they once...

Shobdon Arches is a rather unique structure that stands on a Herefordshire hill within the Shobdon Court estate. What on earth is it?...

Mysterious standing stones lie hidden and half-forgotten in the more remote regions of the Midlands. This one stands on a mound near a...

A viking burial chamber in England? This is Lanhill Long Barrow, a Neolithic chambered tomb in Wiltshire dating from around 3500 BC....

This bizarre statue stands overlooking the sea at the Portugese town of Nazarè. I walked past it as the sun went down on my way to see...

This mysterious face peeks out from the underside of a font inside the Church of the Holy Rood in Daglingworth, Gloucestershire. He...

This man- shaped oak resides in a corner of Cannock Chase, appearing to walk down the slope to grab you - Tolkien's Treebeard?

A trip into Wales today and just north of Cardiff lie two very impressive monuments close to each other. Here's St Lythans, a dolmen atop...

A big thank you to everyone that came out to Script Haven last night for a chat with myself. Some interesting side-subjects came out of...

There have been some strange murder trials throughout history, but they don't get much stranger than two stone blocks being charged with...

When the Knights Templar were abolished, arrested and disbanded in 1307 only one king defied the Papal Bull, refusing to move against...

Anglo-Saxon carvings of various beasts lurk in some of the quieter churches of the Midlands. Here is a wolf and dragon from St Mary's at...

This is the Longstone of Minchinhampton which I visited a few months back in sunnier times. This Gloucestershire megalith, made of oolite...

A ghostly story in the old Christmas tradition - but this one is absolutely true. These unremarkable stepping stones traverse the Sher...