Portsmouth is Britain's naval city — a place whose entire geography has been shaped by the Royal Navy for four centuries, from the Tudor dockyard to the Palmerston forts that...
Cambridge is one of England's most polished cities — the university spires, the manicured colleges and the Backs create a landscape of maintained perfection that leaves little room for dereliction....
Bournemouth is one of England's great Victorian seaside resorts — a town that grew from a handful of cottages in 1810 to a major resort city by 1900, building grand...
Southampton is Britain's great ocean liner port — the city that sent the Titanic, the Queen Mary and generations of emigrants to America on their final sight of England. Its...
South Wales carries one of the most powerful industrial histories in the world — the coalfield that powered the Royal Navy's steam fleet, the ironworks of Merthyr Tydfil that lit...
North Wales is one of the most dramatically beautiful urbex landscapes in Britain — a region shaped by the slate industry that roofed Victorian England, the coastal fortifications of Napoleonic...
Norfolk's abandoned landscape is shaped by two forces above all others — the RAF and the sea. The county's flat agricultural terrain made it the ideal location for WWII bomber...
Hertfordshire sits immediately north of London — a county shaped by the Roman road network, the Victorian railway that opened it to the capital's commuters and the institutional heritage of...
Dorset is one of England's most dramatically beautiful counties — the Jurassic Coast, the heathlands of Thomas Hardy's Egdon Heath and a chalk downland landscape that has been occupied since...
Dundee is Scotland's fourth city — a place built on jute, jam and journalism, whose Victorian jute industry made it one of the most productive industrial cities in the British...
Derby is one of England's great industrial cities — the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution at Richard Arkwright's Cromford Mill, the home of Rolls-Royce and a railway engineering centre that...
Brighton has always been England's most theatrical seaside city — a place that reinvented itself from a fishing village to a Regency royal playground to a Victorian resort to a...
