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Where tourists seldom tread, part 20: three UK towns that feel like home

In the last of the series, the writer returns to three passed-over places where he used to live – Harrow, Clitheroe and Princetown in Devon

The last in this series of underexplored, overlooked, bypassed towns revisits three places loosely linked to somewhere I’ve lived at different stages of my life. Relocating is grand-scale vacationing, as there are a few months when the new place feels like a holiday destination – fresh, strange, not filtered and tainted by habit or prejudice. Going back years later is part-pilgrimage, part-funeral.

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© Photograph: Brian Anthony/Alamy

© Photograph: Brian Anthony/Alamy

© Photograph: Brian Anthony/Alamy

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