As posh as it gets in London, Kensington is about staggering wealth, boutiques, rows of elegant townhouses, a royal palace and lots of European embassies. Kensington is also a cultural …
The home of black pudding, this town to the north of Manchester has a lot more going for it than sausage. Of course, meat-eaters have to sample that black pudding …
A few short miles north of Oxford, Bicester is a market town with a pretty centre. People have been trading in the heart of the town for almost 800 years, …
A New Town in West Sussex, Crawley’s recent fortunes have been tied to Gatwick International Airport a few miles north. Before the middle of the 20th century Crawley was a …
An old market town of cobblestone streets and cultured Georgian townhouses, Ashbourne is just a mile shy of the south boundary of the Peak District National Park. You couldn’t be …
An ancient town and port on the River Taw, Barnstaple received its charter from the Anglo-Saxon King Æthelstan in 930. The pedestrian streets and alleys of the town centre are …
A port town on the North Sea with 1,400 years of history, Hartlepool was born around a 7th-century monastery. By the 19th and early 20th century Hartlepool had become crucial …
Stranded among the drained marshes and peat bogs of the Somerset Levels, Glastonbury is a town on dry ground below the mysterious Glastonbury Tor hill. For a millennium Glastonbury was …
The county town of Buckinghamshire is on the edge of the Chiltern Hills in the Aylesbury Vale’s verdant farmland. Aylesbury has some strong regional attractions like the County Museum, along …
York is one of England’s most historic and iconic cities to visit. This charming, walled city can trace its history far back to the days of the Vikings and to …