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The Five Minutes Spare tour of Cheltenham Could Cheltenham be your favourite English city? It’s about a whole lot more than just horse racing… Cheltenham might be famous throughout the UK as a horse racing venue, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have a wealth of history behind it, to back all that swagger…
Could Gloucester be the place for your summer holiday or weekend staycation break? Let’s take a look… As a cathedral city, we already know that Gloucester is important, but the fact is that historically it was so so highly regarded that they didn’t bother to put its population in the doomsday book as “everybody then…
Somewhere in the lovely humid warmth of Derbyshire, you will find a town called Chesterfield. Situated at the meeting place of the Rivers Rother and Hipper, this town and borough lie in the centre of an old coalfield. In the middle of the town in the middle of the regrown coalfield, lies a church with…
Chester the city with a history spanning two millennia. Chester, long since a city in its own English Shire, has a history longer than that of sliced bread! It goes all the way back into pre-historic times, but we obviously have no records of this. What we do know is that it officially started as…
Nailsworth where the rolling valleys of Gloucestershire & the whole of the Cotswolds are within easy reach! If you are looking for a picturesque, serene staycation destination for the 2021 holiday season, Nailsworth might be just the quiet little town you have been looking for. It’s removed enough from the cities that it doesn’t suffer the…
The Five Minutes Spare Tour of Crawley, The Town With That Airport! Here at Five Minutes Spare, we often review towns and cities in Britain with the aim of highlighting their best points and showing you that there are worthy staycation destinations everywhere. Sometimes it’s not that easy to get the good across, but not…
Craig Taylor