Discover Britain

Celebrating the best of our nation, every issue of Discover Britain is packed with features from history to travel. Read about the events that changed history, as well as British traditions and their origins, or be inspired for your next trip with great ideas for where to go and what to see. Whether you’re planning a weekend city break or an escape to the countryside, Discover Britain is your essential guide to getting the most out of your stay.

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Discover Britain

Brit Edit • Your curated guide to Britain this season

Noticeboard • Poor Catherine Howard gets readers’ support on Facebook and our competition winners report back...

DISCOVER CORNWALL

WALK FREE • As the film adaptation of The Salt Path hits screens, Indi Bains goes on her own journey of discovery along Cornwall’s coastal path

Be beside the SEASIDE • Our pick of some of the best places to stay along the Cornwall coast path

My Britain • Jen Holme, visitor services manager at iconic Cornwall landmark, St Michael’s Mount, talks to Jeremy Flint

Pull of the NORTH • From ancient tales to modern tables, Matt Dennis brings us a local’s guide to North Cornwall

Emily’s STORY • Sally Coffey visits a new museum to uncover the story of a British woman hailed a hero in South Africa, yet all but forgotten in her homeland

City of culture • Sally Coffey gives 10 reasons to visit Bradford, a West Yorkshire city that finds itself in the spotlight

Sole purpose • Diana Wright meets a traditional clog maker who has been crafting these distinct shoes for decades

Liberation celebrations • Henrietta Easton visits Guernsey, the most fortified island in the world, 80 years on from the end of German Occupation

Weekend In SHREWSBURY • Russell Higham finds the reopening of Shrewsbury’s Flaxmill Maltings – the first iron-framed building in the world and the grandfather of skyscrapers – the perfect excuse to visit ‘England’s finest Tudor town’

Strange Britain: Misplaced monarchs? • David Long on the thorny issue of royal succession

Downton revisited • With the final instalment of the Downton Abbey franchise in cinemas this September, Henrietta Easton looks back at some of her favourite storylines

Magical history tour • Diana Wright pinpoints the places to visit to learn more about that most famous of royal dynasties: the Tudors

London SPOTLIGHT • This issue, our Londonphile goes in search of bargains at London’s most historic markets

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