Costs threatening beauty spot access Brits enjoy for free

THIS week, despite trying to kid myself otherwise, I've finally come around to the fact that summer is over for another year.

- Geoff Parkin

NEW CHAPTERS: Hadrian's Wall offers unparalleled beauty and great adventures

English Heritage recently teamed up with regional newspapers across the country to offer families the chance to carve out their own stories at our incredible sites. From Dover Castle to Hadrian's Wall, Whitby Abbey to the site of the Battle of Hastings, this autumn, readers can enjoy a free day out at England's greatest historic attractions.

These may have been places where England's history was made, but they are also where new chapters can be written in our own stories; where personal memories are made, relationships forged.

And at the same time, every penny spent at these places not only goes towards looking after them, but also the hundreds of other sites that our charity cares for, many of which are entirely free to enjoy. Many of these free sites are hidden gems but many are world famous.

Long remote stretches of Hadrian's Wall, The Iron Bridge in Shropshire grandfather of modern buildings and Kenwood, set in the heart of London's Hampstead Heath with its collection of world-famous paintings (Vermeer, Rembrandt and Gainsborough among others), to name a few.