If you’re looking for a setting for your next story or inspiration for a poem, these blog posts should get your creative juices flowing!

UK

The Best Place To Take A Bookworm – Hay-On-Wye, UK

The Car-free Village That Inspired Charles Kingsley – Clovelly, Devon

The Witcher In The Wild – Fountain Abbey And Rydal Cave

Robin Hood: Prince of “Trees” – Sycamore Gap, Northumberland, UK

A Hideout For A Murderer – Burn O’Vat, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

When The Romans Ruled – Vindolanda, Northumberland, UK

The POW Camp For Nazis Run By Jewish Officers – Featherstone, UK

Climbing Into Legend – Glastonbury Tor, Somerset, UK

Defence, Mystery, And Experimental Weapons – Brean Down Fort, Somerset, UK

Army Base to Natural Space – Greenham Common, Newbury

A Grim Reminder Of Murder – Combe Gibbet, UK

Land Of Legends – Tintagel Castle, Cornwall

The Definition Of A Castle – Arundel Castle, West Sussex

A Moment Of Peace At Waverly Abbey

A Mythical Isle – St Micheal’s Mount, Cornwall, UK

Walks In A Neolithic Land – Wayland’s Smithy, Wiltshire

Bedknobs, Broomsticks, and Boiling Oil – Corfe Castle

Sea, Sun, and Aliens – Winspit Quarry

The Village Where Time Stopped – Tyneham

Walking Watership Down

Light And Literature – Stourhead Library

A Kitchen Fit For a King – Hampton Court Palace 

Magic Around Every Corner – The Russell-Cotes Museum and Art Gallery

Steam Trains and a Harry Potter Footbridge – The Watercress Line, Alresford, UK

Christ Church College Oxford – From Lewis Carroll to Harry Potter

Myth and Magic at Glastonbury Abbey

Tyntesfield – Where “Sherlock” went Gothic

Museum of the History of Science, Oxford

Scotney Old Castle – A (Fake) Romantic Ruin

Massey’s Folly – A Gothic Mystery

Follow the Ancestors – Chysauster Ancient Village

A Visit to Poldark Country –  Cornwall, UK

A Final Resting Place in the Woods – Brookwood Cemetery

Behind Bars – A Tour Around Decommissioned Dana Prison, Shrewsbury

The Bodleian Library Tour

Anne Hathaway’s House, Stratford-Upon-Avon

Harry Potter and the Divinity School

Upton House Library

You’re not a Number, but you are a Tourist – Portmeirion

Walking in Middle Earth – Puzzlewood

A Bookshop to Get Lost in – Regent Furniture and Books, Wantage

Around Wells Cathedral and The Chained Library

Find yourself at Star Wars Identities

A Visit to Stonehenge

Symbolism and Status – An Enlightening Tour of Highgate Cemetery West

A Tour of the British Library

A Visit to Glasgow Necropolis

5 Inspiring Things to Do in London

Harry Potter Studio Tour – photos

Following Harry Potter – Visit to Lacock Abbey

How I am very Tenuously Linked to Dr Who

Cornwall

Rest of the World

The Cork Convent of Capuchos, Portugal

Quirks, Inspiration, & Books! My Highlights of British Colombia

Streets of the Dead – Cemiterio dos Prazeres, Lisbon

Deja Vu at Quinta da Regaleria

Roman Riches Beneath Your Feet – Placa Del Rei, Museu d’Historia de Barcelona

The Architecture of Antoni Gaudi – Future Fairytales

Abandoned Buildings in the Azores – Part 2

Abandoned Buildings in the Azores – Part 1

Bibliothèque Nationale de France