The Tree Bumblebee (Bombus hypnorum) is a relative newcomer to the UK. Since its arrival from France in 2001, it has been rapidly expanding its range throughout England and Wales.

With the emergence of the ‘staycation’ and a rush of newly refurbished properties across the UK, there has never been a better time to discover a truly original and personal holiday experience that doesn’t have to end when it’s time to come in and

Hello, my name is Amelia and I work in the communications team for the Original Cottages family. As part of my job I get to spend a lot of time looking at some of our most beautiful properties around England and Wales.

Much like many Cornish coastal towns and villages, Looe has a rich heritage of fishing and life earning your bread and butter aboard a fishing boat is the norm.

If you think a cottage holiday means no chance of getting your feet wet and practicing your Williamson’s turn (though less of these the better!) then fear not.

Ever since the London 2012 Olympics, Dorset has been put firmly on the map as a sailing mecca, with Weymouth acting as home to the Olympic sailing squads.

Of course, when we think of the Lake District we think of water, be it falling from the sky or the many vast open stretches which patchwork this landscape.

There are so many options when it comes to enjoying the Norfolk Broads by boat. This magical series of waterways is a vast, tardis like patchwork of interlinked expanses of water.

Covering over 360,000 acres of undulating hills across Surrey, Kent and Sussex, the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty is the best surviving medieval landscape in all of Northern Europe.

This beautiful, diverse and scientifically important Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty stretches from Old Hunstanton in the far west of the county, along the coast all the way to Bacton in the east.