The worlds we leave behind

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

WINDINGS NO STRAIGHT ROAD TAKES YOU THERE ...

To The Sea by Train: The Golden Age ...

ADMISSIONS SHADOW WORK Loneliness and the literary ...

UNCOVER SOME OF THE UK’S MOST INTERESTING AND OVERLOOKED CORNERS WITH THESE NICHE GUIDES

Documentary photographer Richard Cross rises above the shortbread tin romanticism that colours so much of our outdoor heritage, with the perspective provided by drone photography applied to land use issues of our day