{"id":348055,"date":"2026-01-02T12:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T12:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/348055\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T12:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T12:20:10","slug":"the-most-underrated-place-to-visit-in-britain-in-2026-according-to-the-telegraph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/348055\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Underrated Place To Visit In Britain In 2026, According to the Telegraph"},"content":{"rendered":"

We may already be in the New Year, but it\u2019s not too late to set some resolutions. If you\u2019re struggling to think, we suggest you try to see more of the UK<\/a> this year. Sure, Blighty might\u00a0not\u00a0always be as glamorous (or warm) as heading abroad, but that doesn\u2019t mean there aren\u2019t plenty of brilliant places worth seeing.<\/p>\n

The only tricky part is knowing what\u2019s\u00a0actually good and what\u2019s a rip-off, which is exactly why the Telegraph<\/a>\u00a0has put together a list of the\u00a010 most underrated things to do in Britain. Each spot was\u00a0chosen by the newspaper\u2019s travel team as being somewhat off the beaten track. You might not have even heard of\u00a0some of these places,\u00a0but each is intended to offer something that you\u00a0won\u2019t get anywhere else.<\/p>\n

So where should you head first? According to the Telegraph, up to the Bowes Museum in County Durham.<\/p>\n

A\u00a0gorgeous stately home-turned-art-gallery in Barnard Castle, the Bowes is as famed for its sprawling grounds and grand building as for its art collection. The\u00a0structure\u00a0dates back to the 1890s, when a local MP and his wife decided they needed somewhere special to display their private art collection \u2013 and so\u00a0constructed an entire French-inspired ch\u00e2teau. Magnifique.<\/p>\n

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\nPhotograph: Shutterstock <\/p>\n

The Telegraph notes that a gallery of this grandeur with this sort of collection \u2013 you can find textiles dating back to the 17th century, a mechanical silver swan, and an original El Greco \u2013 in the south of England would be \u2018mobbed\u2019, but the Bowes Museum remains largely unknown to those outside of the northeast. That means you can enjoy the extensive body of work inside the museum without having to fight off throngs of tourists, and you\u2019ll almost certainly get a seat in the caf\u00e9.<\/p>\n

Liverpool\u2019s Williamson Tunnels \u2013 a subterranean street system designed for no discernible purpose by a man (Joseph Williamson) with too much money and time in the 19th century \u2013\u00a0was named the second most underrated attraction. The real attraction here, as the Telegraph puts it, is in \u2018[attempting] to figure out what on earth was on Joseph\u2019s mind\u2019 as you explore his bizarre underground maze. In third was the jaw-dropping Menai Bridge in Anglesey.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Menai
\nPhotograph: Shutterstock <\/p>\n

The\u00a010 most underrated things to do in the UK in 2026<\/p>\n

Here are all of the Telegraph\u2019s top lesser-appreciated places to visit in Britain this year:<\/p>\n


\nThe Bowes Museum, County Durham
\nWilliamson Tunnels, Liverpool<\/a>
\nMenai Bridge, Anglesey
\nClevedon Pier, Somerset<\/a>
\nLavenham, Suffolk<\/a>
\nMaunsell Sea Forts, Thames Estuary
\nBeverley Minster, East Yorkshire<\/a>
\nIsle of Bute, Scotland<\/a>
\nStamford, Lincolnshire
\nYarm, North Yorkshire <\/p>\n

You can discover them all in more detail in the\u00a0full\u00a0article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Make the most of 2026: here\u2019s how to maximise your annual leave in 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Plus:\u00a0The legendary British landmark that is one of the worst tourist attractions in Europe, apparently<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Stay in the loop:\u00a0sign up to our\u00a0free Time Out UK newsletter<\/a>\u00a0for the latest UK news and the best stuff happening across the country.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We may already be in the New Year, but it\u2019s not too late to set some resolutions. If…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4821,59,57,58,50,4822,387,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-348055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-categories-travel","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-news-transport-travel","tag-travel","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}