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Let’s move to Bishop’s Castle, Shropshire: ‘This pretty town bursts with enthusiasm’It hums with independent shops, pubs, restaurants, museums, microbreweries, an eco-suburb and even a walking festival
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Let’s move to Kirkwall and Orkney: all sea, sky and peaceLife on these isles is, if not simpler (have you tried getting from A to B on 70 islands?), then more elemental
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Let’s move to Ashbourne, Derbyshire: ‘A delightful town’The two-day Royal Shrovetide football match is its annual blood-letting
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Let’s move to Newport, Isle of Wight: ‘Its quaint alleys hide jewels’There’s plenty to discover, with a vibrant arts centre, an exciting new restaurant and eccentric attractions
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Let’s move to Scarborough, North Yorkshire: ‘Where seasiding began’It has it all – donkey rides, ice-cream sundaes, fish and chips, penny slots and a miniature railway
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Let’s move to Streatham, south-west London: forget what you know‘Huge efforts have been made to reverse the reputation for crime Streatham attracted in the 80s. It’s worked’
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Let’s move to Fishguard and Newport, Pembrokeshire: ‘They’re rather idyllic’They’re remote, but that goes with the territory
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Let’s move to Dover, Kent: ‘It’s been overlooked for years’It needs attention, despite the famous white cliffs and some beautiful Regency terraces
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Let’s move to Rye, East Sussex: ‘You’d think its prettiness would be its undoing’Even the annual deluge of summer tourists fails to dent its astonishing character
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Let’s move to St Albans: its beer festival is a sight to beholdThis is where I began life in a starter home on a suburban cul-de-sac
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Let’s move to Harringay, north London: ‘It’s up and come’Not as affordable as it was, but it still has fantastic Turkish grocers, green spaces and sought-after town houses
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Let’s move to Stranraer and the Rhinns, Dumfries and Galloway: escape hereNobody would find you on the edge of the edge
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Let’s move to Ottery St Mary, Devon: ‘It’s fond of its quaint customs’We can only applaud this plucky town
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Let’s move to… Worthing, West Sussex: don’t mention the B wordYou don’t come here for the high life, but for leafy avenues, seaside terraces cheaper than other seasides, and a decent if undemanding cultural life
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Let’s move to Hotwells, Bristol – ‘It’s enchanting’The old Bristol of radical politics, Rastafarian culture, 60s concrete beside Tudor beams still lurks beneath the fresh paint
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Let’s move to Perth, Perthshire: it’s a lookerYou don’t come here for kicks, you come here for the good life
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Let’s move to Canterbury, Kent: it’s getting its mojo backWith its universities, fruity history and fabulous streetscapes, nestled deep in the North Downs, 10 minutes from the sea, it’s always had the potential to out-boogie its parochial air
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Let’s move to Aberaeron, Ceredigion: ‘It’s dolled up like an ad for Dulux’It’s a pretty former fishing town where every house is painted a jaunty hue
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Let’s move to Lambeth, London: follow Damien HirstIt has enough estates to scare off Foxtons and too few period details to attract hardcore gentifiers
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Let’s move to Luton, Bedfordshire: it’s very connectedWith many trains each our to London and elsewhere, plus the airport, good schools and leafy areas, Luton is not to be sneered at
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Let’s move to Bowness and Windermere: there’s charm behind the Beatrix Potter cutesinessThe tourist hordes and gift shops can be suffocating in high season, but if you do what Miss Potter did – use your imagination – it’s still a top draw
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Let’s move to Saltaire: Titus Salt’s grand and immaculate West Yorkshire havenA stunning world heritage site, with swanky flats in mills and Italianate terraces
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Let’s move to Lowestoft, Suffolk: it’s faded – but what a beachThis old seaside town is not going to do a Margate any time soon
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Let’s move to Lanark: former workers’ paradise, now commuter heavenIt has a world heritage site preserving Robert Owen’s utopian mill and planned community
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Let’s move to Monmouth and the lower Wye valley: where sightseeing beganIts toytown streets and thriving culture are a perfect escape from the rat race
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Let’s move to Abingdon, Oxfordshire: ‘Oxford’s full, so why not try here?’It might lack medieval colleges and posh drinking societies, but it has a spire
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Let’s move to Plumstead, south-east London: it’s magicalIt’s unaware that the rest of the capital is under siege from artisan cronut cafes and House Price Chaos
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Let’s move to Beccles, Suffolk: ‘It’s peacock-eats-peacock here’Like most towns hugging the Broads, it’s wild in tooth, claw and iridescent feather
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Let’s move to Paisley, Renfrewshire: the tumbleweed townMonuments fit for a king, columns, pediments, spires and turrets … but where are the people, asks Tom Dyckhoff
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Let’s move to Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire: it’s enemy territoryThis is mostly a land where Boris Johnson is default
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Let’s move to Lynton and Lynmouth, north Devon: stout legs requiredIt’s a dramatic landscape, all vertiginous drops and corniche drives along cliff tops
Let’s move to the Torridge valley, Devon: ‘It’s lush’