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From its architecture to its industry and sporting events, this is a city of fascinating contrasts just an hour by train from London. 

A well-kept garden near a redbrick railway arcade harbors a 17th-century blast furnace in one of the pioneering villages of the Industrial Revolution. 

Visit Southampton’s premier art gallery to explore an eclectic collection of over 3,500 British and European art treasures spanning eight centuries. 

From its architecture to its industry and sporting events, this is a city of fascinating contrasts just an hour by train from London. 

A huge stash of Anglo-Saxon gold and a Spitfire aircraft are among the treasures that help this museum tell the story of the Potteries region.

A huge stash of Anglo-Saxon gold and a Spitfire aircraft are among the treasures that help this museum tell the story of the Potteries region.

From Georgian-era masterpieces to works by acclaimed pop artists, there are over 300 years of art and social history to discover at this superb museum.  

Tours offer factory floor access in this ceramics powerhouse, while the museum showcases historic pottery and explains the industrial impact of Josiah Wedgwood.

Kayaking, canoeing, whitewater rafting, ropes courses and mini-golf combine in one complex outside Nottingham, which also offers inexpensive accommodations.

A huge stash of Anglo-Saxon gold and a Spitfire aircraft are among the treasures that help this museum tell the story of the Potteries region.

From its architecture to its industry and sporting events, this is a city of fascinating contrasts just an hour by train from London. 

A huge stash of Anglo-Saxon gold and a Spitfire aircraft are among the treasures that help this museum tell the story of the Potteries region.

A huge stash of Anglo-Saxon gold and a Spitfire aircraft are among the treasures that help this museum tell the story of the Potteries region.

A huge stash of Anglo-Saxon gold and a Spitfire aircraft are among the treasures that help this museum tell the story of the Potteries region.

Once an Anglo-Saxon settlement, later a wool-trading town and then a key player in the Industrial Revolution, today this is a lively university city in the West Midlands.

Tours offer factory floor access in this ceramics powerhouse, while the museum showcases historic pottery and explains the industrial impact of Josiah Wedgwood.

From its architecture to its industry and sporting events, this is a city of fascinating contrasts just an hour by train from London. 

Enter this working Victorian factory and inspect the artistic panels hugging the recreated walls of a pub, a tube station and a church.

Kayaking, canoeing, whitewater rafting, ropes courses and mini-golf combine in one complex outside Nottingham, which also offers inexpensive accommodations.