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Attractions in England, Scotland, and Wales
UK attractions and travel information

UK Attractions

Find places to visit by location or by type of attraction.

By Location
Explore thousands of attractions in England, Scotland, and Wales.

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Tourist Information Centres in the UK

Travel Services

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Instant, no obligation quotes on rentals throughout the UK.

Train timetables and tickets
Rail tickets and real-time train timetable information.

UK Travel Directory


Links to thousands of travel resources throughout England, Scotland, and Wales. To the best of our knowledge this is one of the largest online resources of information on travel in the UK, with listings covering everything from official regional tourist boards to local village websites.

Accommodation


Historic Hotels

England - Scotland - Wales

Historic Hotel Ratings
We love British heritage! If your idea of fine hotel accommodation is an historic medieval coaching inn or an elegant country house hotel, you'll like our new Heritage Rating system for hotels. To find historic hotels across the UK, look for these symbols:
Heritage Rated Accommodation or Heritage Rated Accommodation

Top locations
Bath, Birmingham, Blackpool, Brighton, Cambridge, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lake District, Glasgow, Gatwick Airport, Heathrow Airport, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Stratford upon Avon, Swansea, York

Self catering cottages

England - Scotland - Wales

Top locations
Cornwall, Lake District, London, Devon, Scottish Highlands, Perthshire, Tayside and Fife, North Wales, Pembrokeshire

Bed & Breakfast

B&Bs, guest houses, and small hotels.
England - Scotland - Wales

Top locations
Cornwall, Lake District, Devon


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Ord photo gallery - beautiful scenery on a secluded Isle of Skye beach.

Tintinhull Garden - A small, harmonious Arts and Crafts garden around a 17th c manor.

High Sweden Bridge - A classic Lake District walk to a scenic packhorse bridge above Ambleside

Hawkshead Old Courthouse - Remains of medieval courthouse owned by Furness Abbey

Dalton Castle - Remains of a medieval castle built by the abbot of Furness Abbey

Hoad Monument - A striking monument toweriing over Ulverston

Loughrigg Fell - A classic Lake District walk with superb views

Skelwith Force - One of lesser known waterfalls in the Lake District,

Wray Castle - Wray Castle is a Victorian Gothic country house overlooking Lake Windermere.

Tom Gill - A lovely walk up Tom Gill leads to two beautiful waterfalls

Cartmel Priory - A beautiful Norman church built by William marshall, earl of Pembroke

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Wales

Virtual Tour of Wales - planning your first trip to the land of the red dragon? Start here!


Waylands Smithy chambered tomb, Uffington, Oxfordshire

History and Culture

English Culture
What makes England so ... English? From hedgerows to the history of tea, pastimes to traditional crafts.

British Battles
The major battles fought on British soil - who fought them, why, and what was the outcome?

History of Wales

British Biography
Our look at the lives of famous people in the fields of art, architecture, science, and literature throughout British history. From Chaucer to Tennyson, Christopher Wren to William Shakespeare.

English Architecture
The story of English architecture and historic building styles, from prehistoric monuments to Victorian Gothic, with our suggestions for the best examples from each period to visit in England.

London History
From the Romans to the Blitz, our look at the colourful history of London.


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Heritage

Carlisle, Cumbria
in the 17th century

"the towne and battlements and towers are all in very good repaire and looks well; the Cathedrall wall built of stone which looked stately but nothing Curious; there was some few houses as the Deanes and Treasurer and some of the Doctors houses walled in with little gardens their fronts looked gracefully ... there remaines only some of the walls and ruines of the Castle which shows it to have been a very strong town formerly ..."


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