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...
Gloucester is one of England's most historically layered cities — a Roman legionary fortress, a medieval cathedral city and a Victorian port whose docks connected the Severn Vale to the...
