After a week of hiding indoors, the heatwave breaks today. Time to get back outside, and this week's issue has plenty of reasons to do exactly that including: a medieval Leicestershire castle with a tunnel, a Parliamentarian story, and a Walter Scott connection; Churchill's paintings at Chartwell; a Victorian town in Shropshire that's still operating; and Waddesdon's art collection, one of the finest assembled in Victorian England.

This week: a contemporary art installation inside an 18th-century temple at Castle Howard, the sandstone rock houses at Kinver Edge where families were still living in the 1960s, and a garden at Sissinghurst that's been 91 years in the making. Plus a boat trip on a historic Surrey waterway, an after-hours evening at Colchester Castle, and an owner-led tour of a medieval pele tower in Cumbria.

This week: a London garden that's been locked away for years, the BBC series that's put a Cotswolds hoarder's manor back on everyone's list, a formal Edinburgh garden tucked off the Royal Mile, next door to where Adam Smith spent his final years, and a Dorset cabinet that spent a year in conservation before coming home. Plus jousting at the crowning place of Scottish kings next weekend. Enjoy.

This week: Grimsthorpe Castle in Lincolnshire and its 500 years of stories now available by audio tour, Coventry Charterhouse which pulled in 50,000 visitors in its first year under the National Trust, and a garden on Anglesey that almost nobody knows about. Plus the newly opened Neolithic hall at Stonehenge, and a 5,000-year-old burial chamber on Anglesey with a solstice event coming up on 13 June. Enjoy!

This week: choughs are back at Tintagel after a century away, Rudyard Kipling's East Sussex home turns out to be far stranger inside than the exterior suggests, a Roman fort in County Durham has quietly reopened with some of the best-preserved bath house remains in Britain, and a Mughal palace in the Cotswolds that most people have never heard of. Plus medieval music at Tintern Abbey, minibeasts at Hopetoun, and a military festival in Cumbria all coming up in the next few weeks. Enjoy!