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4 CONTENTS THIS IS GREAT BRITAIN 10 GREAT BRITAIN S TOP 25 EXPERIENCES 13 GREAT BRITAIN S TOP ITINERARIES 31 PLANNING YOUR TRIP 39 LONDON 51 LONDON HIGHLIGHTS LONDON S BEST THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW DISCOVER LONDON History Orientation Information Dangers & Annoyances Sights London for Children Tours 54 60 61 62 63 65 86 86 00a-front-dc-bri1.indd 4 Festivals & Events Sleeping Eating Drinking Entertainment Shopping Getting There & Away Getting Around 87 88 93 98 99 101 103 103 SOUTHERN ENGLAND SOUTHERN ENGLAND HIGHLIGHTS SOUTHERN ENGLAND S BEST THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW SOUTHERN ENGLAND ITINERARIES DISCOVER SOUTHERN ENGLAND SOUTHEAST ENGLAND Kent Sussex OXFORDSHIRE Oxford 107 110 114 115 116 118 118 119 121 127 127 12/11/2009 11:23:17 AM
5 Blenheim Palace 133 Uffington White Horse 133 THE COTSWOLDS 133 Chipping Campden 133 Winchcombe 134 Cirencester 135 Bibury 135 Painswick 136 GLOUCESTERSHIRE 136 Forest of Dean 136 HERTFORDSHIRE 137 Verulamium Museum & Roman Ruins 137 Hatfield House 137 BERKSHIRE 137 Windsor & Eton 137 SOUTHWEST ENGLAND 138 Hampshire 139 New Forest 142 Wiltshire 142 Bath 145 Somerset 150 Devon 152 Cornwall 154 CENTRAL ENGLAND 161 CENTRAL ENGLAND HIGHLIGHTS 1 CENTRAL ENGLAND S BEST 168 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW 169 CENTRAL ENGLAND ITINERARIES 170 DISCOVER CENTRAL ENGLAND 172 THE MIDLANDS & THE MARCHES 172 Nottinghamshire 172 Peak District 174 Warwickshire 177 Stoke-on-Trent 181 Worcestershire 181 Shropshire 183 EAST ANGLIA 188 Cambridgeshire 188 Suffolk 195 Norfolk 197 NORTHERN ENGLAND 199 NORTHERN ENGLAND HIGHLIGHTS 202 NORTHERN ENGLAND S BEST 208 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW 209 NORTHERN ENGLAND ITINERARIES 210 DISCOVER NORTHERN ENGLAND 212 MANCHESTER 212 Information 212 Sights & Activities 212 Sleeping 215 Eating 216 Drinking 216 Getting There & Away 216 Getting Around 216 LIVERPOOL 217 Information 217 Sights 217 Tours 220 Sleeping 221 Eating 221 Entertainment 221 Getting There & Away 222 Getting Around 222 YORKSHIRE 223 Haworth 223 Yorkshire Dales National Park 224 York 225 CUMBRIA & THE LAKE DISTRICT 228 Windermere & Bowness 230 Ambleside 232 Grasmere 232 Hill Top 234 Wasdale 234 Keswick 235 Ullswater & Around 235 NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE 235 Information 235 Sights 236 Sleeping 237 Eating 238 Drinking 239
6 Entertainment 239 Getting There & Away 239 Getting Around 240 AROUND NEWCASTLE 240 Angel of the North 240 Segedunum 240 HADRIAN S WALL 240 Chesters Roman Fort & Museum 241 Vindolanda Roman Fort & Museum 241 Housesteads Roman Fort & Museum 243 NORTHUMBER LAND 243 Northumberland National Park 243 Alnwick 243 Bamburgh 244 WALES 245 WALES HIGHLIGHTS 248 WALES BEST 252 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW 253 WALES ITINERARIES 254 DISCOVER WALES 256 CARDIFF (CAERDYDD) 256 History 256 Information 256 Sights & Activities 256 Festivals & Events 259 Sleeping 259 Eating 260 Getting There & Away 260 Getting Around 261 AROUND CARDIFF 261 Castell Coch 261 Caerphilly Castle 261 SOUTH WALES 262 Gower Peninsula 262 Laugharne (Lacharn) 263 Pembrokeshire Coast National Park 263 MID WALES 265 Brecon Beacons National Park (Parc Cenedlaethol Bannau Brycheiniog) 266 Hay-on-Wye (Y Gelli) 266 Powys 267 NORTH WALES 267 North Coast & Borders 268 Snowdonia National Park (Parc Cenedlaethol Eryri) 271 EDINBURGH & GLASGOW 275 EDINBURGH & GLASGOW HIGHLIGHTS 278 EDINBURGH & GLASGOW S BEST 282 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW 283 EDINBURGH & GLASGOW ITINERARIES 284 DISCOVER EDINBURGH & GLASGOW 286 EDINBURGH 286 History 286 Orientation 286 Information 287 Sights 287 Tours 293 Festivals & Events 294 Sleeping 294 Eating 295 Drinking 296 Entertainment 297 Getting There & Away 297 Getting Around 298 AROUND EDINBURGH 298 Queensferry & Inchcolm 298 Rosslyn Chapel 299 GLASGOW 300 History 300 Orientation 300 Information 300 Sights 300 Tours 305 Sleeping 305 Eating 305 Drinking 307 Getting There & Away 307 Getting Around 308
7 LANARKSHIRE 309 Lanark & New Lanark 309 SCOTTISH BORDERS 309 Traquair House 310 Melrose 310 Dryburgh Abbey 310 Abbotsford House 310 Jedburgh 311 DUMFRIES & GALLOWAY 312 Caerlaverock Castle 312 New Abbey 312 Galloway Forest Park 312 SCOTLAND S HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS 313 HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS HIGHLIGHTS 316 HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS BEST 320 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW 321 SCOTLAND S HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS ITINERARIES 322 DISCOVER SCOTLAND S HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS 324 CENTRAL SCOTLAND 324 Loch Lomond 325 Inveraray 325 Isle of Islay 326 Isle of Mull 327 Isle of Iona 328 Kellie Castle 328 Falkland 328 Dunfermline 329 Perth 329 Blair Castle 331 Loch Tay & Kenmore 331 Glamis Castle 331 Balmoral Castle 332 THE HIGHLANDS 332 The Great Glen 333 East Coast 339 Isle of Skye 340 GREAT BRITAIN IN FOCUS 343 ARCHITECTURE 344 FAMILY TRAVEL 346 FOOD & DRINK 348 HISTORY 353 MUSIC 372 NATIONAL PARKS 376 NATIONAL PSYCHE 377 SPORT 378 DIRECTORY & TRANSPORT 381 GLOSSARY 402 BEHIND THE SCENES 403 INDEX 407 MAP LEGEND 416 SCOTLAND'S HIGHLANDS &ISLANDS p313 EDINBURGH & GLASGOW p275 NORTHERN ENGLAND p199 WALES p245 CENTRAL ENGLAND p161 LONDON p51 SOUTHERN ENGLAND p107