15 Best Things to Do in Chelmsford (Essex, England)
The county town of Essex sits at the confluence of the Rivers Can and Chelmer. Being 30 miles from the centre of London, Chelmsford has a population of commuters working …
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The county town of Essex sits at the confluence of the Rivers Can and Chelmer. Being 30 miles from the centre of London, Chelmsford has a population of commuters working …
A historic market town, Ludlow is crowned by a Medieval castle once home to Tudor monarchs. The town is on high ground on the east bank of the River Teme, …
Not far north of Leicester, Loughborough is a university town in the Charnwood Forest. Loughborough University has ballooned in the last few decades, to the point where one in four …
In the 19th century the fishing village of Cleethorpes on the Humber Estuary was transformed into a bathing resort for holidaymakers coming by train from Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. Lots of …
Up to the 1980s coalmining was the backbone of this city in West Yorkshire. The landscape had been mined since the 15th century, around the time Wakefield witnessed a decisive …
Comfortably inside the London’s M25, Watford is a market town that developed during the Industrial Revolution and was absorbed by the capital in the 20th century. The town is on …
An experiment in urban planning in the 1960s and 70s, Milton Keynes is a new town on a grid pattern of boulevards. That alone makes it a fascinating place, as …
A mining town until the 1980s, Chesterfield’s industrial sites have been regenerated and the town is almost unrecognisable from just a generation ago. The Medieval alleys and courtyards in the …
In the Black Country, Wolverhampton is a former industrial town now dominated by the service sector. Manufacturing is still part of the local economy, but the days of coal pits …
A neat and prosperous market town, Taunton has a newly regenerated and pedestrian-friendly town centre with Perpendicular Gothic churches and Georgian townhouses. Taunton Castle houses the Museum of Somerset, a …