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Salford Quays/Lowry/War Museum Manchester
6 Reviews The Lowry is a brand new arts complex with galleries, a huge theatre and eateries. the visual look of the building is stunning as well. Unfortunately the day i saw it, the sky was gun metal gray and...
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Castle Howard York
8 Reviews 14 miles. By bus including entry £15. Pay the driver board at Bootham Bar, across from the tourist info. This is where the TV series 'Brides-head Revisited' was filmed. The castle grounds are worth...
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Canals Birmingham
5 Reviews Many locals and tourists don't have the Birmingham Canal Network in mind when having a holiday - obviously I wouldn't suggest in Winter, but it is good to take a sideways trip from the city sights and...
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Iffley Oxford
3 Reviews When you have seen the university buildings and are a bit tired of the touristy and noisy city, come to Iffley to enjoy its peace and quiet. Situated on the Thames, it can be reached by boat from the...
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Cathedral City of Ely Cambridge
5 Reviews Ely Cathedral is a wonderful church inside and it has lovely stained glass. Within the Cathedral, there is a Stained Glass Museum which is woth visiting. You need to pay separately to enter the...
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Libraries Manchester
7 Reviews Chetham's Library is off the beaten path. I'd never heard of it and neither had my boyfriend who has lived in Manchester all his life. Most visitors to Manchester may see the John Ryland's Library on...
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Whip ma whop ma gate York
2 Reviews What a great name for a street. I wish more streets had great names like Whipmawhopmagate - it's rather more interesting than Castle St. or High St. Only 32 metres long, It's very easy to miss this...
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Nearby Attractions Birmingham
11 Reviews Birmingham is slap bang in the middle of England. With an excellent public transport system, there are literally hundreds of locations within a hour or so of the CBD by train or bus. Hiring a car...
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Cowley Road Oxford
3 Reviews If Oxford is a genteel, civilised place, Cowley Road is its uncouthed, yet strangely alluring neighbour. Just 5 minutes walk from the town centre, but a million miles away in terms of atmosphere,...
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Mill Road area pubs Cambridge
4 Reviews Mill Road.Seen here in the early morning,but usually busy with people and traffic.The shops,cafes,restaurants and pubs on and around Mill Road are among the best on offer and well worth a wander over...
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Helmsley York
5 Reviews Helmsley lies about 20 miles west of York and is one of England's loveliest market towns. This is really the perfect English town - a large market square with a beautiful church and castle commanding...
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Museums & Galleries Birmingham
3 Reviews By Car: Take the A38 (Bristol Road), turning onto Edgbaston Park Road. Parking is available in the University's South Car Park, with the Institute situated at the top of the hill opposite King...
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Port Meadow Oxford
4 Reviews Port Meadow is a large open country public field that stretches as far as the eye can see,there are plenty of footpaths to walk on and you can cross bridges over the River Thames that flows through...
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Castle Hill Cambridge
3 Reviews .....is closed off at the moment. I suspect local skateboarders have been using and eroding it. A typical Norman motte, its bailey now hidden by the council buildings, it's still worth a visit....
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City - Miscellaneous York
18 Reviews England's most famous highwayman might have been from Essex and have had relations to Derby but he spent so much time in York he actually died here. His grave can be found if you continue down to the...
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Brindley Place Birmingham
2 Reviews I always remember coming down to Brindley place when I was younger to go to The National SeaLife Centre which is just next to Brindley Place. Especially in the Summer next to the canal this area of...
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Jericho Oxford
2 Reviews Jericho is one of Oxford's most interesting neighbourhoods. Most of the action takes place on Walton Street, where there ar enumerous bars and restaurants, but it's also worthwhile exploring the side...
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Grantchester Cambridge
4 Reviews This church is just a few steps away from the tea garden " Orchard ". A graveyard is all around it, many of the tombstones are too withered to read who has been buried there. In front of the altar...
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Fountains Abbey York
7 Reviews The monks elected Prior Richard abbot, but by 1133 they were forced to look for outside help in order to survive. They turned, naturally enough, to the source of their inspiration, the Cistercian...
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Parks Birmingham
6 Reviews Cannon Hill is a reasonably sized park just on the out skirts of the city centre its about 5 to 10 minutes away on the bus ( no 45 or 47 from ouside the palisades shopping centre). it has a large...
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Botanic Garden Oxford
7 Reviews Britain's oldest botanic garden with thousands of species of plants from all over the world. A lovely place to sit, or wander down the river. Situated on the site of the old Jewish cemetary. Open:...
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Wittgenstein's Grave Cambridge
1 Review The greatest philosopher of the the 20th century is buried in a small graveyard in Cambridge. In the same cemetry also stands the grave of GE Moore a leading exponent of Logical positivism. In the...
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Beverley York
3 Reviews Beverley. It is a small market town approx 35 mile between York and Hull. It has a large Minster which could rival York but is sadly overlooked by most tourists. The town is nice for an hour or two,...
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Jewellery Quarter Birmingham
2 Reviews The advent of such contraptions as the thing I am using now to scrawl this tip led to the death knell of a once proud Brimingham industry. That and the Bic Biro. There was at one time over 100 firms...
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Headington Shark Oxford
3 Reviews Somewhat annoyingly, I was looking for this piece of art, but got a bit lost, so I have yet to describe it from the flesh, as it were. The story of the shark and the battle for it's retention against...
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1825 the first public railway was opened between Darlington and Stockton. That's why Darlington has a brick train, one of the funniest statues I've ever seen!Darlington is in the north of England close to Middlesbrough. Read (not much) more about Darlington on my Darlington page.
Each of these places is interesting in itself, but especially if you have kids in tow a mention that this was a Harry Potter filming location can work wonders :)In England, these are:Oxford, which provided:- Hogwarts staircase, notably in the first film where Professor McGonagall greets the schoolchildren upon their arrival- the Hogwarts dining room (the Great Hall) - Hogwarts infirmary and the scene of Ron’s dancing lesson with Professor McGonagall in 'Goblet of Fire' (the Library)- Open-air spaces where Moody demostrated unforgivable curses and transformed Malfoy into a ferretGloucester and Durham, which provided:- Locations for the Ghost scenes and talking portraits in 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' as well as Moaning Myrtle and red writings in the corridors (the Cathedral)Lacock Abbey, which provided:- Locations for some of the classroom scenes and Hogwarts groundsAlwick...
Head to the South. You get the best of both worlds with a beautiful coastline and lots and lots of beautiful inland scenery.http://www.alifeofluxury.co.uk/ - This is a great site with lots of info on the south west. It's also got pictures and reviews of Hotels in all parts of the UK so it should help you make the right decision :)Links to all sorts of other useful sites too
You may or may not have these (or your variety of them) at home, but they do have a special place in my heart and the hearts of many British people.Snowdrops are quite small (from 7 to 15cm tall), grow in clumps and, although many of us plant varieties in our gardens, they are the first native British spring flower to appear at winter's end.When I see snowdrops in the countryside, I know that the end of winter has come (even if the weather has not changed much!).I photographed this large clump in Hertfordshre on 1st March: quite late this year, because we have had a hard winter. Normally, I'd hope to see them flowering (in the Midlands) during February and in January further south (and in warmer winters).
Castlethorpe is located just north of Milton Keynes, as small village, but does support a school and a Post Office shop. Once the home of a wooden castle which had a moat. Interesting to walk around the village and read the history board posted round the village.
Classified as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the Chiltern Hills lie to the north-west of London, easily accessible by road and by public transport. Wonderful walking country, they are criss-crossed with designated footpaths, the oldest and longest being the Ridgeway - often called the oldest road in Britain. The Ridgeway continues out of the Chilterns and on into the ancient landscape of Wessex, ending near the great stone circle at Avebury, but before the path breaks out into the open country of the downs a stretch of it runs right beside one of my favourite English churches - the Norman church of Saint Botolph at Swyncombe. Built soon after the Norman conquest of Britain, it is named for the Saxon saint whose name is commemorated in the little Lincolnshire town where he was the revered abbot of a 7th century monastery, and a great American city - Boston - a contraction of...
...when knights were bold - this is just the sort of castle you can imagine they lived in. In fact, Bodiam Castle's is just about everyone's idea of what a castle should look like. One eminent architectural historian has described its picture book appearance thus"Anyone who has ever built sandcastles will feel an immediate affinity with Bodiam, it looks like the work of a giant bucket and spade."Nestled deep in the valley of the River Rother, surrounded by a moat and complete with crenallated towers and battlements, approaching Bodiam you can easily conjure up the days when pennants flew from the battlements and lords and ladies rode out under the wooden portcullis to hunt and to hawk. Although it was built for security, Bodiam was also built to be a family home and to demostrate the wealth and status of the owner so as well as the barracks and defence towers of earlier castles, the...
Looking at it now, you'd never guess the Hughenden Manor - the home of Queen Victoria's flamboyant Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, started life as a white-painted Georgian house. When Disraeli bought it he immediately set about the alterations that transformed the exterior in to a Jacobean-style pastiche and decorating the interior in the latest High Victorian manner. Little has altered since then so visitors to the house get a very real sense of being in the home of this most interesting man. The formal gardens around the house have recently been replanted to replicate the gardens planned by Disraeli's wife , Mary Anne. To a modern eye they can appear garish but this was very much the way the Victorians liked their flower beds, packed with bedding plants in brilliant colours. I certainly prefer the beautiful mature trees that are planted around the lawn at the front of the house and...
War memorials usually are all about glory and sacrifice, regimental colours, honours and officers heading the lists of names. Trust Stanley Spencer to take a completely different slant on things. The series of wallpaintings he did for the Sandham Memorial Chapel in the tiny village of Burghclere is considered his masterpiece. In all the paintings that cover the walls of the chapel only one officer appears and there is not one battle scene. Instead, Spencer has chosen to honour the ordinary soldier in scenes drawn from his own WW1 experiences of serving as military hospital orderly and later as an officer in Macedonia. The chapel was commissioned by the sister of Lieutentant Henry Sandham who had died in Macedonia, making the choice of Spencer particularly appropriate as he too had served there. Drawing inspiration from Giotto, the great Italian master of fresco, Spencer took 6 years to...
Of all the beautiful and historic houses I've visited in England, if I could choose one to call my own it would be Grey's Court at Rotherfield Greys in Oxfordshire. It's by no means the biggest, nor the grandest house you'll find - I don't think you would even call it a Stately Home - though it certainly has had some historic moments, but it is has such a charming lived-in and well-loved feel to it and, surrounded by the loveliest gardens full of intimate nooks and crannies, it sits so perfectly in its rural setting, it really is my dream home.The property has belonged to the National Trust for many years now but was, until her recent death, the beloved home of Elizabeth, Lady Brunner, who in collaberation with her head gardener created the series of gardens within the ruins of a fortified mediaeval manor. They include a magical 100 year old wisteria pergola, an old orchard (where you'll...
The Montague On The Gardens London
5 Reviews and 1067 Opinions The concierge was fabulous, the hotel very grand, and despite the rooms being small they were...
Radisson Edwardian Manchester Manchester
4 Reviews and 929 Opinions I had a great time there. Stayed due to business 4 nights in the hotel. Staff was great, friendly...
Guy Fawkes Inn York
4 Reviews and 233 Opinions We went to the pub new years gay. I ordered the fish and chips and found a lump of metal in the...
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Q: Hi! We r planning to go Paris from London on 16th June Saturday by eurostar. We r planning to stay at L'Elysee Val D'Europe hotel...
A: Lookin on google maps I notice that the L'Elysee Val d'Europe is basically sitting on top of a railway station. It's not the station where the Eurostar stops, but that is...
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