Highways to hell

Each issue we investigate the most ghostly places to visit. Here we take a look at the spookily beautiful city of York

A reader writes to ask if I could recommend some good driving roads on his way to and from Wales. And I will, by direct message, but not, if you will forgive me, in print, because advertising driving

Once sentinels of the turnpike trade, toll-houses now stand as quiet monuments to a time when travel came with a price

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.

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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.