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Salford Quays/Lowry/War Museum   Manchester

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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Have you been the hit comedy 'The Office', it is set in the wonderful oasis that is Slough...The famous poem by Betjeman asked for "come friendly bombs to fall on Slough" (or is it sluff ?). This is all you need to know about this place.There is also a line in the TV comedy "The Office" which says that Slough has two nightclubs, one of which is mentioned by Tim...TIM: New York New York, 'the club that never sleeps.' Umm, that closes at one.The BBC website is extremely funny on the topic of 'The Office' and features maps of the trading estate, roundabout and high street locations used in the hit series.The acerbic comments are superb. I've taken what I consider the best ones.The images and captions are from whoever wrote the website - I wonder if he /she might be VT member - they should be.The BBC allows reproduction of the images for personal and non-commercial use, so unless you wish to...

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Thw World's most interesting roundabout...

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From Sourbugger's Swindon page :The local tourist board know that they are onto something of a loser when you realise that the most interesting thing in this sizeable town is a traffic intersection.It now has the official title of 'The magic roundabout' which was for many years, in a show of native wit, it's nickname - named after the children's TV show.It consists, in essence, of five mini-roundabouts set within one full size one. It actually works remarkably well.I do think however that it could be vastly improved upon by adding a character statue from the series on each of the mini-roundabouts. Dougal, Florence, Zebedee, Mr Rusty and Ermintrude would then really make it a tourist hot-spot the Tourist board could be proud of

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England's most famous hangman..

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From Sourbugger's Horncastle (Lincolnshire) pageIf Ma killed Pa, who'd kill Pa ? .... Mar-wood. It takes a bit of thinking about that rhyme, but it refers to Horncastle's most famous celebrity - William Marwood.He lived most of his life uneventfully as a cobbler in Horncastle even if he did have some strange interests. His small shop, now a private residence has a blue plaque on it and stands in foundary lane opposite the church. In his fities, he pursuaded the governor of Lincoln prison to let him perform a hanging using his newly devised 'long drop' method, which was more humane. Instead of strangulating them as before - and thus all seeing the 'dancing man' in the gallows, the longer drop meant that unconsciousness was instantaneous, death following after a couple of minutes.He was soon in demand, travelling all over Britain and Ireland as the official executioner. He was so proud...

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Englands Churches

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Today’s church is the fourth to have stood on this site. The first building was begun in the 7th century when Saint Wilfrid built one of England’s first stone churches here. Devastated by the king in AD 948 as a warning to the Archbishop of York, only the crypt of Wilfrid’s original church survived.Today this rests complete beneath the grandeur of Archbishop Roger de Pont l’Evêque’s 12th century minster. A second church – was built and then destroyed in 1069 at the hands of William the Conqueror. Thomas of Bayeux, first Norman Archbishop of York, then instigated the construction of a third, traces of which were incorporated into the later chapter house of Roger’s minster. The west front was added in 1220, its twin towers originally crowned with wooden spires and lead. Major rebuilding had to be postponed due to the outbreak of the War of the Roses but commenced after the accession of...

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Near Malham just east of Settle june 2005

by mauritsh

This is Malham Cove, in the Yorkshire Dales National park in England.The cove is a huge natural ampitheatre of sheer limestone cliffs - up to 300m wide and 80m in height. The cove was formed during previous ice ages, when the ice caps on the hills above melted, causing a huge waterfall which eroded back the rocks. Nowadays the valley above the cove is dry, as the small remaining rivers have found a way down through a series of undiscovered caverns within the limestone. The river Aire (the main river of Leeds) has its origins at the bottom of the cove, where it bubbles up from an underwater stream.The famous limestone pavement can be found on the top of the cove.

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Visiting Fountains Abbey

by mauritsh

Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire is a Cistercian monastery first founded A.D. 1132. The Abbey was in operation until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539, ordered by Henry VIII, after which the Abbey buildings were sold by the Crown to Sir Richard Gresham, the London merchant, father of the founder of the Royal Exchange.Though the buildings are now partly ruined, it is one of the largest and best preserved Cistercian houses in England and is a UNESCO World heritage site. It is now owned by the National Trust.

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Ribblehead Viaduct

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The Viaduct has 24 arches crossing Batty Moss 100 feet below and is 440 yards long.It is part of the Settle to Carlilse railway.Construction of the line began in 1869 and lasted for seven years with about 6,000 men working on the line - the last main line railway in England constructed almost entirely by hand. Memorials along the line, especially that at Chapel-le-Dale, near Ribblehead, commemorate the lives of some of the men who died building the line. Many died through outbreaks of smallpox, as well as those injured or killed during construction.

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For Pub lovers a Must see place !!!

by mauritsh

Tan Hill Inn the highest located pub in England, at 1732 ft. ASL. Lies just south of motorway A66. One of Englands more dangerous roads.In the North Yorkshire Pennine Moors embedded in between Stonesdale Moor and Arkengarthdale Moor. This remote spot is a very special place for a pub. Stunning views. When going there watch for crossing sheep, out in the open all year long. Especially in springtime.Unfortunally we couldn't drink there because we were driving, but coffee was no problem.Will go back with a driver soon and stay there long enough to enjoy to the fullest.

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See the Festival of Corpus Christi in Arundel

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We were told about the Festival of Corpus Christi and the Carpet of Flowers by a local man. The carpet was at Arundel Cathedral near Arundel Castle. Corpus Christi is the Latin for "Body of Christ" coming from the Last Supper. The festival started in 1264 with a procession. It was an ancient custom to strew flowers in the path of important persons as a sign of reverence and respect. So over the years it became a practice to make a carpet of flowers for the procession to walk on. The patterns became more and more intricate. It's not know when they started laying the carpet in the church but they do know it was done in 1919 and has continued to this day. Parishioners take flowers and lay them out on the central floor to form a pattern. This year it was spelling out some of the miracles of Jesus. When you look at it up close, you can see the individual flowers. It's quite amazing. We were...

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Visit the Water Meadow in Woodstock

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We were staying in the town of Woodstock at the Vickars Hotel. After we checked in, we walked down to the River Glyme where there is a nice area set aside called the Woodstock Water meadow; River Glyme Natural Area. We took the steps down to it from the bridge over the major road into town. There was a trail that follows the river. It's a beautiful lush natural area. Birds we saw here included Blue Tit, Great Tit, Blackbird, Com. Moorhen, Wood Pigeon, Chaffinch, Mallards, Ring-necked Pheasants, Wrens, Magpie, C. Swifts, House Martins, Jackdaw, Sedge Warbler and lots of Mute Swans. The highlight for me was seeing a nest with a Mute Swan on it protecting her 5 downy little babies and the male swan swimming back and forth in front to protect them. Male swans can be quite fierce. Flowers are beautiful here too: yellow buttercups, Queen Anne's Lace and taller Meadow Parsnip, yellow iris,...

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