The colonial parkway killer

MURDERING THEIR WAY ACROSS SIX US STATES IN 53 DAYS, ALTON COLEMAN AND DEBRA BROWN’S RANDOM RAMPAGE CLAIMED EIGHT INNOCENT LIVES

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.

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

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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.

From dilapidated cottages to the site of a notorious nuclear disaster, what is behind the longing to seek out abandoned places, asks Katie Scott