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Many Miles From Edinburgh...   Edinburgh

Many Miles From Edinburgh..., Edinburgh

 58 Reviews  There were several bonny sections of gorse, as pictured, near where we started, at Flotterstone. This is about 7 miles/11km south from the centre of Edinburgh. There is a small visitor centre here,... 

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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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Loch Lomond   Glasgow

Loch Lomond, Glasgow

 11 Reviews  If you plan to travel from Glasgow to Loch Lomond then consider taking the A81 via Killearn. On the road you can visit the small an beautiful distillery GLENGOYNE. They arrange tours, there is a shop... 

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Barry Island   Cardiff

Barry Island, Cardiff

 6 Reviews  Barry Island is very much the traditional seaside resort with its long sandy beach, amusement arcades and fun fair, attracting visitors from far afield. Seafront shops will tempt your taste buds with... 

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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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Political   Belfast

Political, Belfast

 6 Reviews  one of the things that belfast is famous for is the murals. i had hard time finding them because you don’t really wanna go wondering into the “strange” areas... and i wasn’t sure this is something you... 

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Surroundings   Edinburgh

Surroundings, Edinburgh

 34 Reviews  A self guided audio tour in 15 languages is offered on the Royal Yacht Britannia. Adult price is £9.00 children £5.00 Over 60's £7.00. Opening times are April - October 9.30 - 4.30 November - March... 

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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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Stirling...   Glasgow

Stirling..., Glasgow

 6 Reviews  Stirling- one of Scotlands former capitals, is one of its most historic cities as well, with a lot of tales of battles and struggles for Scottish independence centred around the region. Its was also... 

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Castell Coch (The Red Castle)   Cardiff

Castell Coch (The Red Castle), Cardiff

 9 Reviews  Castell Coch (which means Red Castle in Welsh), stands on a wooded hillside above the village of Tongwynlais, north of Cardiff, Wales.It was was probably founded in the early thirteenth century by a... 

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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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Outside Belfast   Belfast

Outside Belfast, Belfast

 8 Reviews  March 16, 2005 and yes that's me in the tee-shirt on the edge of Belfast Lough. If it's peace, tranquillity, fresh air and exercise you need then walk the coastal route from Crawfordsburn in an... 

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Arthur's Seat   Edinburgh

Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh

 24 Reviews  This is Arthur's Seat, the highest protrusion rising above Edinburgh in Holyrood Park, as seen from my son's kitchen window on South Oxford Street. For some more views, please see my Views of... 

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Ayrshire   Glasgow

Ayrshire, Glasgow

 7 Reviews  On the West Coast of Scotland about five miles south of Ayr and beautifully perched on a craggy cliff top knoll stands the ruins of Dunure Castle. It was originally built for the Kennedy family. The... 

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Roath Park   Cardiff

Roath Park, Cardiff

 7 Reviews  Roath Park is my favorite park in Cardiff and one of my favorite parks in the world. It is extremely beautiful! A perfect place to go for a walk and just relax. It just got it all! A big lake housing... 

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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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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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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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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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Alnwick

by margaretvn

Alnwick - actually said as Annick is a lovely old town with lots of little cobbled streets and alleyways. There is a lovely medieval castle with wonderful gardens. Of course Harry Potter fans will know Alnwick from the films but it has also been used in the series Backadder. The castle overlooks the river Aln and is on the northern side of the town. Alnwick Castle is actually the second largest inhabited castle in England. It has been the home of the Percys, Earls and Dukes of Northumberland since 1309. The castle is first mentioned in around 1096. That was when Yves de Vescy became Baron of Alnwick and had the first part of the castle built. The first Lord Percy of Alnwick had the first restoration of the castle done in the early 1300’s. It included the Middle Gateway, the Abbots Tower and the Constable's Tower. Unfortunately the castle was in scaffolding whie we were there, did not...

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youth hostels

by JLT

Why not go to youth hostels if you travel into the Highlands ?Everytime I 've been to Scotland I chose youth hostels and I can tell you some are really great. One is even located in a huge castle (sorry I forgot the name).And I would say that if you are in a very good physical condition, why not cycle and backpack ? I've done it when I was 19 and it was great. But you can also do it by rental car of course, or with your own car if you put it on the ferry Zeebrugge - Hull for example, like I did.

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The Red House

by margaretvn

This is the house were the composer B.Britten lived from 1957 until his death in 1976 with his partner the tenor P. Pears. It is where he wrote some of his greatest works - such as the War Requiem and Death in Venice.I was looking for more information about the Red House, and discovered it was probably closed for the year by the time we would be on holiday. I emailed the curator and asked the actual closig date and saying when we would be there. Quickly got an email back saying that they were actually closed but if we came he would open up and give us a tour. We arrived expecting a short tour but he took us around and we spend a happy and very interesting two hours looking around the house and learning a lot about the lifes of these two Britten and Pears. We were not rushed through at all but given a very individual and very informative tour and then the chance to look at the exhibition...

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the Bowes Museum

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Visit the Bowes Museum at Barnard Castle. Bowes is named after its founders - John and Josephine Bowes. It is the result of a marriage and it brought the cosmopolitan tastes of Paris to this area of Teesdale. John Bowes was the descendant of an ancient Teesdale family and he married Josephine Chevallier an actress from Paris. She was also a painter and would-be patron of the arts. Her ambition and taste and his wealth made Bowes. Both founders died before the museum was opened to the public in 1892. Bowes is one of the most important private collections in Europe with paintings from The Netherlands, France, Italy and Spain: porcelain from almost every factory of the 18th century, furnitureBarnard CastleCounty DurhamTel (0833) 690606Open all year: Except the week before Christmas and 1st of January.

Maes Howe

by margaretvn

Maes Howe on Orkney is Britain's most impressive ancient chambered tomb.It dates back to 2000 BC. Inside there is graffiti which is believed to have been left by the Norsemen returning from the crusades in 1150. It is also thought to be linked with the chambered tomb at North Grange in Ireland.Tombs for the ancestors played a dominant role in the lifes of the early farming communities. They were built to last the centuries. The houses of Skara Brae consist of a square room with cells opening off it, just as the tomb of Maes Howe has a square burial chamber with side cells. It is estimated that some 500 stone built tombs survived in Scotland but few are intact. This is partly because in 19th century it was easier to break in through the roof than to find the entrance or because they were used later as handy sources of building stone. In Maes Howe there is a long terrifying journey through...

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Skara Brae

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The highlight of a visit to Orkney though has to be Skara Brae - It is unique and wonderfulIt was unearthed in 1850 during a storm, it had been buried for 4,500 years.This has to be one of the best known prehistoric monuments in Britain, this is because its astounding state of preservation allows us a extraordinarily evocative glimpse of times long past. Some of its houses stand to eaves level, whole stretches of passage way are still roofed and a lot of the stone furniture is still in place and easily recognised as furniture. Skara Brae is a small village consisting of 6 to 8 houses which were built, modified and rebuilt over a period of some 600 years between about 3100 and 2500 BC. Today it lies exposed on the shore of the Bay of Skaill, that is the result of marine erosion. It position today is very different from its original one when it lay in fertile grasslands well away from the...

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Barnard Castle

by Sjalen

Way off the beaten path in Teesdale is this old market town with the ruins of Richard III's castle. Read a little bit more on my Barnard Castle page.

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Whitby

by Sjalen

Whitby holds a very big part of my heart as it is where my husband and I used to go on daytrips from York before we were married. I have put it as an "off the beaten path" tip as whilst well-known to revellers from Middlesborough and Tyneside, few others seem to find their way here - especially not foreigners - unless they've decided to tour Yorkshire specifically. This pretty seaside town is famous for three things: St Hilda's abbey, high up on the cliff above town, being where Captain Cook grew up and learned to sail and finally, for being the landing spot for count Dracula when he came from Transylvania. Oh, and for what is possibly the best fish & chips in the entire country!

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Appleby

by Sjalen

Hoardes of people visit the Lake District every year but few realise that the scenery is almost as stunning and with a lot fewer people in the eastern part of Cumbria. Appleby itself might not lie in one of the most spectacular dales but you don't need to drive far before getting to Eden Valley and others. This small town is famous for its annual horse fair when beautiful Tinker horses, Dales ponies and other similar breeds are bought and sold here and also cleaned in the river flowing through town. Some horse people are a sad sight too as usual and do not be surprised if you see whole families going to town on a cart behind their horse. This is also a centre for England's small trotting business - nothing like the big racing machinery in Scandinavia, France or the US though!!! Here, horses are tiny and the tracks are in fields...Appleby also has a nice castle with a park full of birds...

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Castleton

by Sjalen

In the Derbyshire valleys belonging to the Peak District, you will find the small town of Castleton which is a popular destination for locals but not at all well known to foreign tourists. It is mostly famous for its caves where Blue John is mined - a semi-precious stone used for jewellery and this is also what most people buy as a local souvenir as it isn't found anywhere else.

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