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The Cornish tour begins at Penryn, ancient market town and battlefield between sobriety and drunkenness.

We visit Northam (and its amusingly punctuated constituent parts) to see what Brian of Brittany fought for.

We set up Season 7 in South West England with a few pints and a fry-up on the Torridge estuary

Last of the northern outliers on our tour is Stonehaven, which does indeed have a harbour. And it is made of stone.

We'll enjoy our 28 minutes in Portlethen... But should we?

Join us in Westhill; the plucky newcomer who took on the might of Aberdeen City Council... and won.

We take a healthy trip to Ellon, a pint of BrewDog stout notwithstanding.

We take a trip through Aberdeenshire on Britain's friendliest regular rail service, breaking our journey at Inverurie en route.

"Is this a podcast I see before me?" King Duncan may have lost his life in Elgin but, with luck, we won't lose our marbles.

Forres has survived many indignities down the years, but its biggest problem these days is keeping things open... on a Tuesday.

The first instalment of the 'big push north' sees a long journey up to Nairn... but will we arrive in time for supper?

Is Barry Island actually part of Barry? Find out TODAY on Forgotten Towns!

We take a trip to the seaside, and the playground of Cardiff's Victorian tycoons, in search of the UK's last working telephone box.

We hit the valleys of South Wales for what, to the speeded up brain of the podcast listener, sounds suspiciously like a weekend long pub crawl.

Coal may have given Ashington its raison d'être, but we find out what these Northumbrians are up to now that times have moved on.

We visit one of England's more historically important market towns, with a nice sideline in coal, female suffrage and comfort food.

Season 4's odyssey back across Scotland's central belt reaches its conclusion in the UK's only purpose-built county town.

From Cairnpapple Hill to chapati and daal, with 5,000 years of political and industrial history in between, Bathgate is much more than a mere commuter town.

This week sees us in the heartland of Scotland's former mining territory, and maybe an unexpected hotbed of Unionism.

Sleepy dormitory town, or gem of Scotland's central belt? We make legitimate, yet limited, attempts to find out during this episode.

Airdrie is a town with something for everyone... so long as you like drizzle. We do some research from the pub interior.

From an Iron Age crannog to vast iron output in a later age, Coatbridge has given plenty to the world. We take it all in, from Whifflet to Sunnyside.

The nation's media came here for a week or two last Autumn but, beyond transitory political interest, we try and find out what it's actually like.

Christmas & New Year Special : A feature-length season-closing edition to take in not just this sizeable Dunbartonshire town but, we hope, the final stretch of our walk to the West coast.

Kilsyth may be the nation's 925th biggest town, but it's only the 924th one your host has visited. Confused? He will probably fail to explain in this week's episode.

It may necessitate an illogical dead-end train ride, and time is tight, but we're determined to make our only visit to Clackmannanshire count.

Run down by over-exertion, your host contemplates Larbert from the generic surroundings of his Premier Inn bedroom.

Our visit to Stenhousemuir is dominated by the 'chip shop challenge'; can a man travel quicker than a 'bus whilst buying a haggis supper?

From whence comes the mysterious apostrophe, and will it be worth the 'bus ride? Find out in Bo'ness.

We remain unperturbed when finding central Grangemouth cordoned off by a knotted tape barrier.

Boats, battles, foundries and one very big wheel: Scotland's 21st biggest town has much to commend it.

History, beer, a much needed rest after a very long walk and, for once, I was not the only visitor in town.

We embark on a coast-to-coast walk with sights set initally on Broxburn, but will it provide adequate rest for weary limbs and flagging intellect?

Home to the UK's first roundabout, plus first class public & curry house provision; what's not to love about our first and greatest 'Garden City'?

The loveliness of Paris seems somehow sadly gay / The glory that was Rome is of another day / Join me in Baldock for a new exciting episode!

Not Royston Vasey; not Royston, Yorks; but Royston, Hertfordshire - where Ermine Street meets the Icknield Way... and King James went to the pub.

Gain an irreverent, and to some extent irrelevant, insight into the Lincolnshire town that was (but is no longer) capital of England... and Denmark.

Beating heart of the Boothby Graffoe wapentake, or high class housing estate long since absorbed by Lincoln? We spend 5 minutes making a snap judgement.

With carefully contrived poor timing, we visit the only town in the list to be named after a month of the year... on August Bank Holiday weekend.

For what is Chatteris, and does this market town really "lack quintessence"? Find out as we visit the Fens.

Ware's where it's at, as our perambulations around the Herts / Essex border end in this pleasant riverside town.

Whither Hoddesdon? Why Hoddesdon? What is Hoddesdon? Your host pays a visit and attempts to explain.

Season 2 sees us back in South East England, armed only with an undimmed sense of adventure and a train ticket to one of the UK's largest "new towns".

We fail to look around Staffordshire's "most perfect piece of C19th Gothic Revival" architecture and consume a pizza in the country's 859th largest town.

Join me in Biddulph, "Staffordshire's Garden Town"; #577 by rank of size, and home to a servicable branch of a well known supermarket chain.

This week we're in Wilmslow, Cheshire; a powerhouse of Britain's industrial revolution ranked #288 in our Top 1,000.

Join me for a cheeky pint in Denton; sometime home of hat manufacturing, the UK's 249th most populous town, and my last unvisted one in Lancashire.

Your host visits Newton-le-Willows, the UK's 452nd largest settlement. Where is it? And what on earth is he doing there?