15 Best Things to Do in Battle (East Sussex, England)
The Battle of Hastings in 1066 changed the course of English history, and the Norman Conquest that followed was bloody enough that William the Conqueror vowed to build an abbey …
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15 Best Things to Do in Appleby (Cumbria, England)
A little sandstone town in Cumbria’s Eden Valley, Appleby centres on the historic Boroughgate, a street bursting with monuments. One name that will keep popping up here is Lady Anne …
15 Best Things to Do in Aldeburgh (Suffolk, England)
By the North Sea, the town of Aldeburgh is on the Suffolk coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and will forever be tied to Benjamin Britten. The composer, most famous …
15 Best Things to Do in Abingdon (Oxfordshire, England)
An agreeable Thames-side market town downriver from Oxford, Abingdon used to be the county town of Berkshire even though it has officially been in Oxfordshire since 1974. The 17th-century County …
11 Best Things to Do in Workington (Cumbria, England)
Lying beside the Cumbrian iron ore field, Workington always had a smelting trade, but that blossomed into a heavy steel industry via the trailblazing Bessemer process in the 19th century. …
15 Best Things to Do in Wokingham (Berkshire, England)
This market town and borough lies directly south-east of Reading, and has a few historic streets in its town centre ringed by modern developments and residential suburbs. Now, Wokingham isn’t …
15 Best Things to Do in Totnes (Devon, England)
A town with a Bohemian personality, Totnes has a rep for its New Age community. In fact Totnes is so progressive it even has its own currency, the Totnes Pound, …
15 Best Things to Do in Stamford (Lincolnshire, England)
A town sculpted from pale limestone, Stamford became the first designated conservation area in all of England and Wales back in 1967. Stamford doesn’t have a dominant monument that you …
15 Best Things to Do in Romford (London Borough of Havering, England)
Historically part of Essex but now in the Borough of Havering, Romford is one of the M25 region’s key commercial centres outside of Central London. Romford’s history of trade goes …
15 Best Things to Do in Matlock Bath (Derbyshire, England)
On the Derwent River in the embrace of a deep wooded gorge, Matlock Bath is a scenic spa resort developed in the 18th century. Up to that time this almost …