With a granite-built townscape that exudes respectability, Bodmin owes its appearance to Cornwall’s tin-mining boom in the 19th century. This was also Cornwall’s county town until the late-19th century, and …
In Medieval times this Cambridgeshire town was on the Isle of Ely, a patch of high ground amid miles of watery fenland. Slowly the impassable landscape was conquered using ditches …
The seat of the second-oldest diocese in England, Rochester is at an ancient crossing on the River Medway, fortified by a sturdy Medieval castle that has survived in amazing condition. …
If you have to choose one borough that epitomises the real London in the 21st century, Hackney may be as close as it gets. Vibrant and culturally diverse, Hackney in …
The neat and well-to-do town of Lewes is embedded in a gap in the South Down in East Sussex. Lewes’ Medieval streets are set off beautifully by the neighbouring green …
On the western moors of the Peak District, Macclesfield is a market town that became the world’s largest producer of finished silk in the 19th century. In 1832 there were …
On Dorset’s Isle of Purbeck, Swanage is a seaside town that will have people of all ages under its spell. Here you’re at the eastern gateway to the Jurassic Coast, …
Blessed with one of the few west-facing beaches on England’s east coast, Hunstanton is a picture perfect Victorian seaside resort built from nothing in the middle of the 19th century. …
In the 1950s Grimsby was the largest fishing port in the world. This came after more than a century of constant expansion, leaving the town’s docks with giant monuments like …
A town with industry in its veins, Bolton began producing textiles when Flemish weavers brought the trade with them in the 1300s. In the 18th century two local men, Richard …