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Blackpool
If you visited Blackpool in 1840 all you would have found is a single row of houses facing the sea but, like many coastal resorts the railway transformed the town.
Attracting 3 million visitors at the beginning of the 20th century the towns popularity peaked in the 1960's but has been in steady decline ever since.
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Chester
Chester is one of those cities that seems almost too neat to be real. Walk through its centre and you encounter Roman remains, medieval streets, black-and-white timbered buildings, an impressive cathedral, ancient city walls and the famous Chester Rows, all within a remarkably compact area. It is historic, attractive and very easy to explore on foot. In fact, Chester is probably one of the few British cities where getting lost is actually rather enjoyable.
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Lake District
The Lake District is one of those parts of Britain where even the most hardened Old Moaner has to admit that nature has done a rather good job.
Mountains, lakes, waterfalls, stone villages, winding lanes and some spectacular views combine to make this one of Britain's finest landscapes. It is also somewhere that can make you completely forget that you are supposed to be complaining about something.
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Liverpool
Liverpool is a city with attitude. It has always had it, and despite decades of change, regeneration and attempts to make it behave itself, that attitude remains one of its greatest attractions.
This is a city that has produced great music, great footballers, great comedians and some very strong opinions. It has also produced one of Britain's finest waterfronts, an extraordinary collection of architecture and a history that reaches far beyond The Beatles and football.
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Manchester
Manchester is a city that has never been afraid of hard work, and you can still see the evidence everywhere. It was the world's first industrial city in many respects, built on cotton, engineering, canals, warehouses and the remarkable ingenuity of people who apparently thought that if something couldn't be done, the answer was to invent a machine that could do it.
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Port Sunlight
Port Sunlight is one of those places where you can spend half an hour admiring the pretty cottages and gardens before realising that you are actually looking at one of Britain's most important experiments in social housing.
Tucked away on the Wirral, Port Sunlight was created from the 1880s by William Hesketh Lever, founder of Lever Brothers and the man behind Sunlight soap.
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