• Where tourists seldom tread, part 2: five great UK towns left out of the guidebooks

    Where tourists seldom tread, part 2: five great UK towns left out of the guidebooks
    From Cumbernauld to Guildford, we celebrate more unheralded but revelatory areas
    • Where tourists seldom tread part 1In the 1996 essay Tierra del Fuego – New York, French cultural theorist Jean Baudrillard juxtaposes Ushuaïa with Manhattan. “After the ends of the earth, the centre of the earth,” he writes. “But each gives the impression of being on another planet.” The UK’s forgotten towns have an analogous relationship with its celebrated, over-tour

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