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Hidden Britain

People reaching for the ball at the Royal Shrovetide Street Football in Ashbourne
Adventure & Experience

England's ancient and chaotic ball game

By Daniel Stables

(Credit: Birdsonline/Getty Images)
Hidden Britain

A UK community that refuses to conform

By Jade Braham
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Hidden Britain

A secret site for the Knights Templar?

By Daniel Stables
(Credit: Allard Schager/Getty Images)
Hidden Britain

Britain's defiant outlier island

By Mike MacEacheran
The pearly kings and queens: London's 'other' royal family (Credit: Nicole Cubbidge/Alamy)
Hidden Britain

London's 'other' royal family

By Ellie Howard
Maîtresse Île is the only island in the archipelago to bear any imprint of civilisation (Credit: Gary Le Feuvre/Getty Images)
Hidden Britain

Britain's disputed 'in between' isles

By Daniel Stables
The gnarled, moss-covered oaks of Wistman's Wood, Dartmoor National Park.
Hidden Britain

Britain's dark, humid 'Lost World'

By Richard Collett
The thriving port town of Dunwich was lost to storms in the 13th Century
Discovery

Is this Britain's 'Atlantis'?

By Lizzie Enfield
Cliffs and sea at Foula, Shetland
Hidden Britain

Britain's most remote inhabited island

By Jamie Lafferty
View over the island of Eriskay in the Hebrides
Hidden Britain

A small Scottish isle with a big story

By Karen Gardiner
Slow travellers can hire a kayak or canoe to paddle out to the uninhabited isle of Inchconnachan (Credit: Dominic Walter/EyeEm/Getty Images)
Slowcomotion

Britain's abandoned 'outback' island

By Richard Franks
Sunny Bar street under blue sky in Doncaster, South Yorkshire
Hidden Britain

An English town Scotland never returned

By Mike MacEacheran
Farmer examining his watercress crop for quality control before harvest. Alresford
Hidden Britain

The UK's love of 'poor man's bread'

By Yasemen Kaner-White
Chillingham wild cow standing in field
Hidden Britain

A British beast rarer than the panda

By Daniel Stables
Diwana Indian vegetarian restaurant and Bhel Pooris on Drummond Street, London
Hidden Britain

London's most authentic Indian food?

By Meera Dattani
Crop circle in Wiltshire, UK
Hidden Britain

England's crop circle controversy

By Daniel Stables

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