You’d need months to cover all 50, so I’ve selected seven that could be visited in a week – the Magnificent Seven in seven days. Photograph: Don McPhee/The GuardianWe start at Arnside, half an hour from Windermere but in a world of its own. Downham, LancashireThe village of Downham, nestling beneath Pendle Hill. Trevor and Froncysyllte, Wrexham CountyPontcysyllte (which means ‘the bridge that connects’) aqueduct joins the villages of Trevor and Froncysyllte. Photograph: David Levene/The GuardianHead south-west to the Cheshire/Wales border and you can have two extraordinary villages for the price of one.

Source: The Guardian March 27, 2021 06:56 UTC