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...
Exeter is Devon's cathedral city — a Roman fortress, a medieval trading centre and a WWII bombing target whose Blitz destroyed much of the Georgian city centre in a single...
Ipswich is Suffolk's county town — an ancient port on the Orwell estuary whose medieval wool trade built the grandest merchant houses in East Anglia, whose Victorian engineering industry made...
Reading is the Thames Valley's commercial capital — a prosperous commuter town whose Victorian identity was built on Huntley and Palmers biscuits, Suttons seeds and the brewing industry that made...
Top 5 Abandoned Places in Oxford – Urbex & Derelict Buildings Oxford is one of England's most perfectly maintained cities — the university spires, the Bodleian and the Radcliffe Camera...
Stoke-on-Trent is the Potteries — six towns merged into one city whose entire identity was built around the bottle kiln, the potbank and the names that defined world ceramics for...
Hull — Kingston upon Hull — is England's great forgotten city, a port whose trawler fleets once made it the world's leading distant-water fishing centre and whose bomb-damaged Victorian terraces,...
Wakefield is the cathedral city of West Yorkshire's coalfield — a market town whose medieval wealth came from the wool trade, whose Victorian prosperity came from coal and whose 21st-century...
Huddersfield is the Colne Valley wool capital — a West Yorkshire mill town whose Victorian prosperity was built on the finest woollen cloth in England and whose architectural legacy includes...
Middlesbrough is the town that steel built — founded in 1830 as a coal staithes settlement on the Tees, it grew within fifty years to become one of the most...
Liverpool is one of Britain's most dramatically layered cities — a port that connected the Empire to the world, built extraordinary Georgian and Victorian civic architecture from the proceeds of...
The United Kingdom has one of the richest abandoned landscapes in the world — Victorian asylums with Kirkbride towers, Georgian country houses gutted by fire, modernist concrete seminaries reclaimed by...
