15 Best Things to Do in Brentwood (Essex, England)
This suburban town is just outside the M25 ring road and many residents make the short commute from Brentwood to Canary Wharf and the City of London each day. But …
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15 Best Things to Do in South Shields (Tyne and Wear, England)
A thriving seaside resort with a fabulous Blue Flag Beach, South Shields is on the mouth of the Tyne facing North Shields across the river. Like all of Tyne and …
15 Best Things to Do in Birkenhead (Merseyside, England)
At the turn of the 19th century Birkenhead was a minor village on the Wirral bank of the Mersey, buffered from Liverpool’s heavy industry by the river. Things changed quickly …
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 …
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, …