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It’s the busiest time of year for Britain’s beautiful places. Yet as these locations prove, you can find silence, sensational scenery and space to breathe.

The Victorians confused these Shropshire hills with the Alps. How? Why? Trail dons its lederhosen, downs a glühwein and reaches for the Stretton Skyline to find out.

2025 marks 200 years since the birth of the modern railway, which gave millions of city-weary walkers a way to escape to the country.

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With its honey-hued villages, rolling hills and dramatic castles, the picturesque Cotswolds region is in many ways the ultimate English getaway. Spanning an area of almost 800 square miles across the

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