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Car-free Welshpool
Powys
A steamy ride on the Welshpool & Llanfair light railway, a stroll up to medieval Powis Castle, or an epic journey to the coast.
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Nottingham
East Midlands
Nottinghamshire is a great place to explore car-free. Visit the castle on foot, the arboretum by tram, Newark by train or Melton Mowbray by bus.
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Beaches
by train
As the days get longer and the sun feels warmer, we all want to head for the sea. But why get there in an overheated car?
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Oxford
Oxfordshire
Avoid the traffic and stroll through Oxford’s streets on foot; find flowering meadows, stride out along the Thames or ride a bus to Blenheim Palace.
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Saffron Walden
Essex
Saffron Walden is full of character and there's more to discover nearby. Get a bus to neighbouring villages or hike the Saffron Trail deep into the rolling Essex countryside.
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Malton
Yorkshire
Yorkshire’s self-styled "food capital", has some idyllic trips to offer: take a bus into the wooded wolds for a picnic or a boat round Castle Howard’s Great Lake from a vine-fringed tearoom veranda.
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Cambridge
Cambridgeshire
Cycle downriver to Grantchester, catch a train to see Shepreth’s red pandas or hop on the bus to visit bird-haunted lakes at Fen Drayton.
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Enfield
North London
London’s most northerly borough offers flowering gardens, riverside walks and rural adventures, from Jacobean Forty Hall to wild woods and fields.
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Croydon countryside
Greater London
Half an hour south of the centre of London, you can find some beautiful walking country: flowering parkland, historic commons, woods and nature reserves.
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Nottingham guide
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Nottingham is a great place to explore by bus, tram or on foot: caves and pubs, museums and galleries, flowering parks and pretty shopping streets.
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Edinburgh
Midlothian
Craggy castles, cobbled streets, sandy beaches, riverside walks, world-class museums and scenic train rides: a wealth of great car-free experiences in the Scottish capital
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Scarborough
Yorkshire
With a good network of trains and buses, not to mention ferries and tramways, getting around Scarborough without a car is not just possible – it’s fun!
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Daffodils
by bus and train around the UK
Shakespeare’s Perdita longs for daffodils that “take/The winds of March with beauty”; here are six places to see daffs without a car.
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Car-free Monmouth
Monmouthshire
Wander in the hills, canoe along the river, or enjoy ice creams, bakeries and an award-winning vineyard around this historic market town, birthplace of Henry V.
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Bedford
Bedfordshire
Discover codebreakers at Bletchley Park, pilgrimages with John Bunyan, pastries with sweet and savoury ends, and a lovely tea room in a Victorian station house.
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Derby
kindly supported by East Midlands Airport
Discover Derby’s award-winning riverside pubs and brick textile mills, its light-filled cathedral and green parks. A birthplace of the industrial revolution, a centre for craft breweries, and a gateway to the beautiful landscape of the Peak District.
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