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With our regular editor away on holiday this month I was given the envious task of discovering the trail of Beatrix Potter. It took little encouragement to persuade me to venture to Cumbria to discover the facts of one of my favourite authors.
Read more about our editor's Beatrix Potter trail
I'd been making particularly heavy work of climbing a coastal path and had stopped to take in the view when I felt it a sudden and surprising sense of wistfulness - it was thrilling to be back in Cornwall.
Read more about our editor's Orca Sea Safari
As my train pulled into Bristol Temple Mead station on a gloriously sunny summer’s day and I noticed a jolly looking chap, complete with pirate hat and Jolly Roger flag, waiting by the ticket gate, I knew I had an interesting afternoon ahead of me.
Deep within the foothills and valleys of East Lancashire are the tiny hamlets and villages which played such a key role in the fascinating and haunting story of the Pendle witch trials. Discover what happened when our editor took a trip there.
Find out more about the Pendle witches
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