The Five Minute Guide to Woking. Get to know your town with one of our helpful travel guides. Situated in Surrey, this sunny English town is all the way down in the south. That means it has better weather than most of us UK dwellers, making it an ideal staycation destination for stay-at-home-summer 2021. Woking…
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…
Rochdale – in Under Five Minutes! Check out the History and some of the Attractions of the birthplace of Co-Operation, that’s the Co-Op to you and me. Here at Five Minutes Spare, we regularly review the towns and cities of the UK, with a mind to planning a holiday there. With 2020 officially becoming the…
Halifax a historic town with a bank named after it. Visiting the Calder Valley but looking for a place with the big town amenities while still keeping that historic feel? Well, look no further than Halifax, by far the biggest population centre in the constituency and one steeped in history, dating back over 900 years….
Skipton, sometimes known as Skipton-in-Craven, is a smallish market town located in North Yorkshire, just to the south of the Yorkshire Dales in the North of England. Situated on the River Aire and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, it lies about 27 miles (43 km) northwest of Leeds and 38 miles (61 km) west of…
Birmingham is England’s second-largest city; home to state-of-the-art architecture, a shiny shopping centre, and buildings that have been so beautifully restored that they will take your breath away. This city is the place to be. Like London, Birmingham is the centre of so many things; making travel easy, while also offering a wealth of activities…
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