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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Travel
Chris Moss

Where tourists seldom tread, part 20: three UK towns that feel like home

A sloping high street with many white rendered buildings and a church steeple in the background
The high street in Harrow on the Hill, London. Photograph: Brian Anthony/Alamy

The last in this series of underexplored, overlooked, bypassed towns revisits three places loosely linked to somewhere I’ve lived at different stages of my life. Relocating is grand-scale vacationing, as there are a few months when the new place feels like a holiday destination – fresh, strange, not filtered and tainted by habit or prejudice. Going back years later is part-pilgrimage, part-funeral.

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