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10 wonderful British stays for railway lovers

10 wonderful British stays for railway lovers

8. The Old Station, Allerston, North Yorkshire It was 1950 when the last passenger boarded a train at Ebberston station, actually at Allerston, just five miles from Pickering and the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. Set in two acres, three imaginatively converted carriages sleeping four to six people, and the Ticket Office with two double bedrooms...

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The 10 best caving experiences in Britain

The 10 best caving experiences in Britain

Dark caverns, vaults, tunnels and mines are not everyone’s idea of a grand day out. The underworld has had a bad reputation since the ancient Greeks dubbed it Hades – the realm of the dead. But to our Palaeolithic ancestors, caves offered safety and shelter from the elements. For anyone planning a staycation this summer,...

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Britain’s best white-sand beaches

Britain’s best white-sand beaches

Aquamarine waters, bone-white sands, bleached driftwood… the stuff of holiday brochures and Instagram posts, and designed to lure us to foreign and exotic idylls. But, hang on; why go abroad?  Look closer to home. Britain’s coastline may not offer the bath-warm temperatures and languid palm trees of, say, the Caribbean, but it has some startling...

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Cornwall vs Devon – which is better for a holiday?

Cornwall vs Devon – which is better for a holiday?

Devon Devon is almost twice the size of Cornwall, so there’s more countryside to explore – and huge diversity too. In Dartmoor national park, the largest area of open country in the south of England, you’ll find wild moorland, waterfalls and the temperate rainforest of Wistman Woods. In the north, ancient hedgerows line the lanes...

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Huge boost for troubled town as fish and chip shop named UK’s second best

Huge boost for troubled town as fish and chip shop named UK’s second best

A troubled seaside town has been given a huge boost with a local fish and chip shop named the second best in Britain. The once-booming Torquay in Devon has recently been called “run down” and “ruined by crime and abandoned tourist attractions”. But things may be looking up. Pier Point in the town was one of the...