Members Favourite Towns in England

In 1587, Queen Elizabeth II granted a charter to this lively little village and in the 20th-century Askrigg claimed its place in history as the setting for the T.V. series based on the James Herriot stories of a vet's life in the Yorkshire Dales.....(more)

This is a thriving, friendly market town at the heart of Wensleydale, it shows beautiful old stone properties, quaint shops, galleries, craft workshops and cafe's arranged around winding cobbled streets.....(more)

Eastbourne, is a genteel town, that owes it's distictiveness to the 7th Duke of Devonshire.....(more)

The outstanding feature of Saffron Walden is its rich variety of properties tangled around its web of ancient streets.....(more)

This fine cathedral City was called Lindon by the Ancient Britons' and later the Romans' knew it as Lindum. In AD48 a Roman garrison was set up to command the meeting of the.......(more)

Battle is a unique town in the county of Sussex built on the very site where William the Conqueror defeated king Harold of England and his Saxon army in 'The Battle of Hastings' in 1066.....(more)

Looking at the lively City we see today, it is hard to believe that Gloucester was once a tiny port on the River Severn.....(more)

Lewes is the boyhood home of the famous diarist, John Evelyn (1620 - 1706) He lived at Southover Grange, an Elizabethan house, which is close to the castle.....(more)

The town stakes its claim to be the oldest borough in England on the fact that it was granted a charter in the year 924 by King Edward....(more)

Considered to be Britain's best preserved medieval village, Lavenham, with its wonderful clusters of fine Tudor houses offering the visitor a glimpse of just how a prosperous wool.......(more)

The attractive Royal borough of Kensington has many special places. Most prominent is Kensington Palace, birthplace of Queen Victoria.....(more)

Amesbury is a town near to stonehenge and is one of Wiltshire's most attractive little towns.....(more)

Minster Lovell, in its beautiful dream-like setting against the gently rising Cotswold landscape, has a history stretching back to Saxon times.....(more)

The Birling Gap is a coastal hamlet on the South Downs in East Sussex, situated on the more)

A feature of the town is St.Mark's Church in North Street, this was built in 1839 but was considerably altered during restoration work of around 1869.....(more)

Fascinating historic Essex town in which there was probably a settlement in both the 5th-century BC, and the Ist-century AD. The invading Roman's occupied Colchester in AD 43, and.......(more)

This is a spacious town that has much to offer the visitor. It is a lively place where picturesque past and present sit comfortably side by side.....(more)

The picturesque village of Marazion with its quaint cottages, shops and pubs, is in a sublime position on the west Cornwall peninsula....(more)

Thame is an ancient market town whose charter was granted by Wulfhere, King of Mercia. It was later mentioned in the Doomsday Book of 1087 and has a parish church built during.......(more)

For over 1700 years this town occupied an important position on the Scottish-English border, few town's have experienced such turbulent times, but strangely Carlisle has little.......(more)