Cities provide thrills and bustle. Villages offer quiet and escape. But market towns – quintessentially British locales, hovering between rural and urban – offer something different. There are around ...

Back in 2006, when Tony Blair was PM and Woolworths was still a fixture on British high streets, over in China, the first residents were moving into Thames Town. A purpose-built suburban community ...

An incredibly beautiful market town that boasts that old world, quintessential English charm is attracting tourists from ...

The town has a lot to offer visitors, including a museum, tropical zoo, a weekly market and the only pier in the world to ...

A pop-up bank has opened in a Shropshire town, with a focus on delivering face-to-face services. The Dudley Building ...

Thames Town, with its mock-Tudor homes and red phone boxes, took inspiration from UK locations including Lyme Regis, Chester and Bristol ...