• Where tourists seldom tread, part 3: five towns with hidden histories

    This trail through our industrial, ghostly past includes a haunted motorway and old dye works repurposed as cute cottages
    Part one | Part twoHeritage tourism should be about crisis and decay as well as conservation. As Michael Symmons Roberts and Paul Farley write in Edgelands, their psycho-geographical field guide, “England … offers the world’s most mature post-industrial terrain.”We were first to turn the engines on, and the lights out. It’s a pity we don’t

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