Village life in Britain is under threat, with the closure of the pubs and stores that form the center of small communities. In the Oxfordshire village of Appleton, local people have set up their own ...

THORNEY, England (AP) — As children climb into boats to get to school and scores of hoses pump floodwaters from fields day and night, one corner of southwest England is trying to reclaim its land.

It’s a blustery winter day on the English coast and Nicola Bayless is walking along the Happisburgh cliffs with her daughter Darcy, surveying the damage after a recent storm. “My God. I haven’t seen ...

Nicknamed “the prettiest village in England”, Castle Combe is every period drama director’s dream. There are honey-coloured stone cottages, a babbling stream, and a market cross that hasn’t moved in ...

prove to be an appropriate place for a British polyglot to visit. A speaker of at least eight languages — including French, Chinese, Spanish, Italian, German, Dutch, Portuguese and Indonesian — this ...

The bunting is being put up, the children are making willow crowns and the Morris dancers are practising in the rural English village of Bidford-on-Avon ahead of Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee ...

"Pundits" kept Sanskrit scholarship alive in remote settlements as British control swept across India, a major new research project will show. The largely forgotten literary figures and their ...