In the Abbey church of St Albans, Hertfordshire, beneath the shrine of Britain's first martyr, Saint Alban, lays a tomb of a Prince of England - Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester. But his tomb hides a story of intrigue, witchcraft, and treason...

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High up on the Cornish moors are three unique stone circles.

Hear how The Cheesewring, an astounding stack of granite, was formed.

From medieval ferry crossing to secret World War II operations, the waterside hamlet of Helford Passage was formerly a far busier place than it appears today.

The parish church of Mawnan in Cornwall has far older Christian foundations than its medieval architecture suggests.

Examples of the philanthropy of one man returning to his village roots in the 17th century

Two houses in Chawton now famous for their links to Jane Austen and her family

Once capable of making up to 20 million bricks a year they are the only steam driven brickworks left in the country.

An account of a patch of land between Fleet Street and the Thames. Now occupied residentially by judges and senior lawyers and enclosing the Inner Temple library and nearby Temple Church, the land was originally leased by the Knights Templar in the fourteenth century. Its rose garden was later - according to William Shakespeare - the place where the fifteenth century War of the Roses began.