2015
Penelope travels through Royal Deeside, a remote part of Aberdeenshire. It's a land of enormous estates served by tiny communities. Penelope visits the few villages that exist and explores how important Queen Victoria was in shaping modern Deeside. She takes to the skies in a glider, visits the station built for Queen Victoria in the 1860s, goes to the Highland Games arena for the first time since the 1950s and discovers the secrets of the present Queen's vegetable patch at Balmoral.
2014
Penelope concludes her first trip with visits to Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire, where she sees villages that have been used on film and TV. These include the community where To the Manor Born was filmed, and the setting of Steven Spielberg's War Horse, Castle Combe, where she also discovers a motor racing circuit.
2016
With its English accents, tea shops terraces, and habit of attracting writers like Virginia Woolf, refined little Manorbier quickly shows Penelope that Pembrokeshire enjoys a history all of its own. 'Little England Beyond Wales' is a cultural legacy stretching back 900yrs to when the Normans annexed the south of the county for themselves and built mighty Manorbier Castle.
2016
Accompanied by her Batsford Guide, Penelope's journey starts with a ferry ride across Loch Fyne, to the Kintyre peninsula - made famous, thanks to Paul McCartney, by its southern tip. Penelope learns about the local Viking saga, now heartily celebrated by the villagers of Tarbert, before venturing north to see how the Crinan Canal, with the help of a holidaying Queen Victoria, transformed life here and created Scotland's most beautiful short cut.
2015
In the final episode of the series, Penelope is in East Sussex and Kent - a rural, unspoilt swath of the busy south-east that never ceases to surprise and impress. She finds a remarkable hidden village that hasn't changed in almost a century, discovers the origins of the English Country Garden and sees a war memorial which was helped to be established by Rudyard Kipling.
2015
The actress learns about life in the renowned landscape of Cumbria. The wonder of the Lake District cannot be ignored, but from Morecambe Bay to the Pennines, Penny finds there is much more to life in a Cumbrian village than tourists and tea shops, and all of it owes a great deal to the dramatic local geography. Along the way she meets a community buying its local mountain, indulges in the unique Cumbrian pursuit of hound trailing and visits the home of Sticky Toffee Pudding.