Don't know where to start your UK trip? Follow historian Alice Loxton’s rail recommendations. Want to delve into the UK’s rich history? With over 2 million TikTok followers, historian Alice Loxton is encouraging people to rediscover their heritage in places just a few hours from home. And it’s clear there is untapped potential: in a survey by online ticket company Trainline, 75 per cent of Brits said they would like to visit a historic site this year, yet only 10 per cent had ever been to one before.
What’s behind this gap between intention and action? Almost a fifth of respondents said they don't know where to find historic sites or how to get to them. To fix this, Trainline has teamed up with to encourage curious travellers to visit the UK’s historic sites by train this summer. “There are so many incredible historic towns to visit all across the UK ” she tells Euronews Travel.
Here are her top recommendations. Stratford-upon-Avon is one of Alice’s favourite UK destinations. “There are so many wonderful things you can see that are mostly related to , because this was Shakespeare's birthplace.
You can see the house that he was born in, his school and where he's buried.” But other are also waiting to be uncovered, such as the Guild Chapel. “The Guild Chapel is free to enter.
It's got these amazing wall paintings, and these are some of the greatest from that era that survived today,” says Alice. In the 1500s, the chapel’s walls were whitewashed as the .
