It’s time to start booking your Heritage Open Day tours

For a couple of weeks in September, thousands of buildings across the UK, mostly outside London, are open to the public.

Visit the de Havilland Aircraft Museum

If you fancy visiting a museum devoted to an iconic aircraft manufacturer, then you can find it at the end of a narrow country lane on the edges of the M25 in North London.

Discounts on tickets to visit Hatfield House

A short trip out of London can be found Hatfield House, a Jacobean mansion built in 1611, and has been in the same family ever since.

A day trip to – Hatfield House

Less than an hour from central London is a grand mansion house and huge gardens that are also open to the public.

Tickets Alert: Hatfield House reopening

A short trip out of London can be found Hatfield House, a Jacobean mansion built in 1611, and has been in the same family ever since.

St John the Baptist Church, Aldbury

A tiny village contains an exceptionally old, and magnificent church. This is St John the Baptist Church in Aldbury, near Tring.

Day trips from London – Natural History Museum, Tring

While many people will be familiar with the mighty Natural History Museum in central London, fewer will know that it has a sister museum just half an hour by train outside London.

Day trips from London – The Bridgewater Monument

In the middle of woods can be found a tall stone column, built to honour the man who built the UK's first industrial canals -- Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater.