Bedfordshire’s county town is a leafy settlement on the River Great Ouse. That waterway and its Victorian Embankment, gardens and Suspension Bridge all bring sophistication to the town centre. For …
On the Somerset coast before the Bristol Channel becomes the Atlantic Ocean, Minehead is a traditional seaside town with magnificent inland scenery. Minehead is skirted by the Exmoor National Park, …
If there is one place name in London that instantly brings to mind the capital’s Afro-Caribbean community its Brixton. Like any working class area in London Brixton once had an …
Kent’s historic trading centre had a handy position on the navigable River Medway, which joins the Thames Estuary not far north at Chatham. Even now, Maidstone is in a great …
This Cornish harbour town is not far from the most westerly and southerly points of the British mainland at Land’s End’s and the Lizard. The town is protected by the …
Right on the border with Wales, Chester was founded in AD 70 as the Roman fortress of Deva Victrix. Excavations at the amphitheatre suggest that Deva was pegged to become …
An old-school English seaside resort, Lincolnshire’s Skegness has a Blue Flag beach, a Victorian pier, fairground rides and a line-up of nostalgic family amusements. Most of the appeal is on …
England’s surfing paradise, Newquay has astonishing Blue Flag beaches lashed by the North Atlantic. Surfing is a year-round proposition at the resort, but there’s a special energy in summer, when …
In the 15th century Boston was the wealthiest port outside London. Set in the Fens, a region of farmland reclaimed from coastal marshes by the Wash, Boston was where English …
The market town of Cheltenham would never be the same again after its mineral springs were discovered in the 1700s. This triggered a hundred-year wave of development that peaked in …