Autumn is the season when British towns begin quietly outperforming themselves. Market squares look richer, churchyards turn golden, rivers acquire a thoughtful air, and old …
Autumn towns to bookmark for atmospheric UK breaks

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Autumn is the season when British towns begin quietly outperforming themselves. Market squares look richer, churchyards turn golden, rivers acquire a thoughtful air, and old …

Scotland does autumn as if it invented it. The country has a knack for putting on a show the moment the air turns crisp and …

There are mountains that loom, and then there are the Mournes, which seem to crouch and spring at you like a startled cat. One minute …

England does autumn rather well. Once September rolls around, the countryside bursts into a patchwork of burnished gold, russet, and fiery crimson, and even the …

The North East of England does autumn rather well. One moment you’re crunching through golden leaves in a cathedral city that looks like it belongs …

The Isle of Bute has long been the quiet achiever of Scottish islands. Sitting neatly in the Firth of Clyde, it is close enough to …

Autumn in Britain has a knack for drama. The mornings come wreathed in mist, the hedgerows drip with blackberries, and even the cows look a …

Yorkshire in autumn is a place transformed. The dales, which in summer shimmer with buttercups and dry-stone walls, suddenly dress themselves in copper and gold, …

There is something wonderfully contradictory about the New Forest. You might reasonably expect a forest to be full of densely packed trees and gloomy clearings, …