Derbyshire is England's most dramatically varied county — from the Dark Peak's millstone grit moorland to the White Peak's limestone plateau, from the Derwent Valley's pioneer textile mills to the...
Cheshire is England's most prosperous agricultural county — a landscape of black-and-white half-timbered farmhouses, salt works and the Victorian railway engineering that made Crewe the locomotive capital of Britain. Its...
Lancashire is England's cotton county — the landscape that drove the Industrial Revolution, whose mill towns produced more cotton cloth than any comparable area on earth and whose post-industrial decline...
Somerset is England's most mythologised county — King Arthur's Avalon, the Somerset Levels' fog-shrouded peat moors and the Quantock Hills' medieval deer parks create a landscape saturated with the atmosphere...
Wiltshire is England's most militarised downland county — a chalk plateau whose landscape has been shaped by the military from Stonehenge's ritual geometry to Salisbury Plain's tank training grounds. Its...
Suffolk is England's quietly extraordinary county — a landscape of medieval wool churches, Cold War secrets and WWII American air bases whose flat agricultural terrain once supported the most concentrated...
Northumberland is England's least populated county — a vast sweep of moorland, river valley and coastal plain from Hadrian's Wall to the Cheviot Hills, whose Roman military infrastructure, medieval border...
Warrington is Cheshire's industrial heart — a new town that predates most new towns, a manufacturing centre that built chemicals, soap, wire and glass between the Mersey and the Manchester...
Lincoln is one of England's most historically dramatic cities — a Roman colonia, a Viking trading centre and a medieval cathedral city whose limestone minster towers above the Lincolnshire plain...
Wigan is one of Greater Manchester's most underrated towns — a former coalfield and textile centre whose George Orwell documented the human cost of its poverty and whose abandoned places...
Shrewsbury is England's finest Tudor market town — a Welsh Marches border town looped almost entirely by the Severn, whose black-and-white half-timbered streetscape and medieval street plan create one of...
Blackburn is East Lancashire's cotton capital — a mill town that drove the Industrial Revolution's textile engine, where the power loom was perfected, where the first cotton mills of the...
