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12 dispatches from the road

The Lost Lanes of the Cotswolds: A Slow Drive Through Stone Villages
Countryside
Cotswolds, Gloucestershire

The Lost Lanes of the Cotswolds: A Slow Drive Through Stone Villages

Winding through honey-coloured hamlets on roads barely wider than a Land Rover, the Cotswolds rewards those who resist the sat-nav and follow their instincts instead.

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Marcus Peter Lascelles

12 June 2025

8 min read
North Yorkshire Moors: Driving the Whitby Road at Dawn
Moorland
North Yorkshire

North Yorkshire Moors: Driving the Whitby Road at Dawn

There is a particular quality to the North Yorkshire Moors before the world wakes up — a purple stillness that makes even a familiar road feel like discovery.

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Marcus Peter Lascelles

28 May 2025

6 min read
Suffolk's Secret Coast: From Aldeburgh to Orford Ness
Coastal
Suffolk

Suffolk's Secret Coast: From Aldeburgh to Orford Ness

The Suffolk shoreline is not England's most dramatic, but it might be its most melancholy and beautiful — a shingle coast that quietly insists on being taken seriously.

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Marcus Peter Lascelles

14 May 2025

7 min read
The Peak District in November: Why You Should Visit Off-Season
Countryside
Peak District, Derbyshire

The Peak District in November: Why You Should Visit Off-Season

Stripped of its summer visitors and autumn colour, November's Peak District reveals something more austere and, arguably, more true to itself.

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Marcus Peter Lascelles

30 April 2025

9 min read
Along the Hadrian's Wall Road: Roman Ambition on an English Scale
History
Northumberland

Along the Hadrian's Wall Road: Roman Ambition on an English Scale

The B6318, built on the foundations of a Roman military road, remains one of England's most historically loaded drives — and one of its most underrated.

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Marcus Peter Lascelles

15 April 2025

10 min read
Devon's Two Moors Way by Road: Exmoor to Dartmoor
Moorland
Devon

Devon's Two Moors Way by Road: Exmoor to Dartmoor

The overland journey between England's two great Devon moors takes you through country that most visitors never reach — and rewards every mile of the detour.

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Marcus Peter Lascelles

28 March 2025

8 min read
The Cathedral Cities of the East: Norwich to Ely
Culture
Norfolk & Cambridgeshire

The Cathedral Cities of the East: Norwich to Ely

East Anglia's cathedral cities are connected by roads of great flatness and surprising beauty, through a landscape that rewards patience and punishes haste.

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Marcus Peter Lascelles

10 March 2025

7 min read
Driving the Lake District's Passes: Hardknott, Wrynose and the Case for Difficulty
Adventure
Lake District, Cumbria

Driving the Lake District's Passes: Hardknott, Wrynose and the Case for Difficulty

England's steepest road passes are not for every car or every driver, but those who attempt them find landscapes of a severity that rewards the effort entirely.

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Marcus Peter Lascelles

22 February 2025

11 min read
The Chilterns in Cherry Blossom Season: An Unexpected Revelation
Countryside
Chiltern Hills, Buckinghamshire

The Chilterns in Cherry Blossom Season: An Unexpected Revelation

The Chiltern Hills in late April, when the cherry orchards are at their peak, offer one of England's most overlooked and genuinely beautiful seasonal spectacles.

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Marcus Peter Lascelles

5 February 2025

6 min read
Lincolnshire: The Country England Forgot to Photograph
Hidden Gems
Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire: The Country England Forgot to Photograph

Unfashionable, underrated and largely unvisited by travellers from elsewhere, Lincolnshire turns out to be one of England's most quietly rewarding counties.

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Marcus Peter Lascelles

20 January 2025

9 min read

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Marcus Peter Lascelles

Marcus Peter Lascelles

Road tripper, map collector & tea enthusiast

I've spent the better part of a decade navigating England's B-roads, market towns and coastal lanes — always with an Ordnance Survey map on the passenger seat and a thermos in the cup holder. This journal is where I share everything I find along the way.

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