Britain

by Charlie Godfrey-Faussett, Alan Murphy and Rebecca Ford

• ISBN13: 9781903471890
• ISBN10: 1903471893
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2004-04-01
• Publisher: Footprint Handbooks

Summary

Three countries rolled into one. Rural charm and urban style. Best of the sights. Chic and cheerful places to stay. Ruined castles and Renaissance cities. British cuisine: from jellied eels to Cullen skink. Full colour maps. Letterboxing on Dartmoor and scaling the Paps of Jura. Guide to the best festivals. Toe wrestling, shin kicking and catching fish with your feet... Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Introducing: A foot in the door
Essentials
Planning your trip	p. 18
Where to go	p. 18
When to go	p. 19
Tours and tour operators	p. 19
British embassies abroad	p. 23
Before you travel	p. 24
Money	p. 25
Getting there	p. 27
Air	p. 27
Rail	p. 28
Road	p. 29
Sea	p. 29
Touching down	p. 29
Airport information	p. 29
Tourist information	p. 32
Local customs and laws	p. 32
Responsible tourism	p. 33
Safety	p. 33
Getting around	p. 33
Air	p. 33
Bus and coach	p. 34
Car	p. 34
Ferry	p. 35
Rail	p. 36
Maps	p. 36
Sleeping	p. 36
Food and drink	p. 37
Entertainment	p. 39
Festivals and events	p. 39
Shopping	p. 40
Sports and activities	p. 41
Health	p. 44
Keeping in touch	p. 45
Media	p. 46
Guide
London
Central London	p. 51
East London	p. 80
North London	p. 83
South and West London	p. 84
Southeast England
Canterbury	p. 110
North Kent Coast	p. 114
East Kent Coast	p. 119
North Downs and The Weald	p. 125
Around Maidstone	p. 126
Royal Tunbridge Wells and around	p. 127
Brighton and Hove	p. 130
The South Downs	p. 139
Eastbourne, Beachy Head and inland	p. 140
Lewes	p. 142
Brighton to Arundel	p. 143
Arundel and around	p. 144
Chichester	p. 145
Surrey	p. 149
South of England
Oxford	p. 154
North of Oxford	p. 164
West of Oxford	p. 167
Vale of the White Horse to Goring Gap	p. 170
Reading to Maidenhead	p. 174
Windsor and Eton	p. 179
Chiltern and St Albans	p. 182
Wiltshire	p. 187
Marlborough and around	p. 187
Salisbury	p. 189
Hampshire	p. 194
Winchester	p. 194
Portsmouth	p. 198
Southampton	p. 199
New Forest	p. 204
Isle of Wight	p. 207
Southwest England
Bristol	p. 220
Gloucestershire	p. 227
North Cotswolds	p. 228
Cheltenham and Gloucester	p. 230
South Cotswolds	p. 232
Bath and around	p. 237
Somerset	p. 245
Exmoor	p. 251
Dorset	p. 254
Sherborne and Dorchester	p. 255
Bournemouth and Poole	p. 257
Isle of Purbeck	p. 258
Weymouth to Lyme Regis	p. 260
Devon	p. 263
Exeter and around	p. 264
Torbay and South Hams	p. 269
Plymouth	p. 272
Dartmoor	p. 275
North Devon Coast	p. 278
Cornwall	p. 282
North Cornish Coast	p. 282
South Cornish Coast	p. 286
Falmouth and The Lizard	p. 289
Penwith Peninsula	p. 292
Isles of Scilly	p. 295
East Anglia
Cambridge and around	p. 302
Norwich and the Broads	p. 310
Norfolk Coast	p. 318
Suffolk	p. 321
Essex	p. 329
The Midlands
Birmingham	p. 336
Stratford-upon-Avon and around	p. 345
Warwick and Kenilworth	p. 347
Worcester, the Malverns and the Vale of Evesham	p. 352
Hereford and around	p. 357
The Wye Valley and Forest of Dean	p. 361
Shropshire	p. 364
Shrewsbury	p. 364
Church Stretton	p. 366
Severn Gorge and Ironbridge	p. 367
Ludlow	p. 367
The Potteries	p. 370
Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire	p. 372
Leicestershire and Rutland	p. 376
Nottingham	p. 382
Derby and around	p. 388
Lincolnshire	p. 390
Lincoln	p. 391
The Wolds and around	p. 394
Stamford	p. 395
Yorkshire
York	p. 402
North York Moors	p. 409
Yorkshire Coast	p. 414
Whitby and around	p. 415
Scarborough	p. 418
Hull and around	p. 421
Sheffield	p. 424
Leeds	p. 427
Bradford, Haworth and around	p. 432
The Yorkshire Dales	p. 435
South Dales	p. 435
Around the Three Peaks	p. 438
East Dales	p. 439
Harrogate and around	p. 439
Northeast Dales	p. 441
North of England
Cumbria and The Lake District	p. 448
The Lune and Eden Valleys	p. 460
The Cumbria Coast	p. 463
Hadrian's Wall	p. 466
Newcastle and Gateshead	p. 469
Durham and around	p. 476
Northumberland	p. 479
Alnwick and the coast	p. 480
Northumberland National Park	p. 483
Northwest England
Manchester	p. 490
The Peak District	p. 499
Cheshire	p. 508
Liverpool	p. 513
Lancashire	p. 522
Blackpool	p. 522
Lancaster	p. 523
The Ribble Valley	p. 525
The Isle of Man	p. 528
South Wales
Cardiff and around	p. 536
Caerphilly and The Valleys	p. 549
Monmouthshire	p. 554
Brecon Beacons National Park	p. 558
Swansea, the Gower and the Carmarthenshire Coast	p. 566
Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire	p. 572
Newport and around	p. 556
St David's and around	p. 574
Haverfordwest and Narberth	p. 576
Pembroke and around	p. 576
Tenby	p. 577
Carmarthen and around	p. 579
Mid Wales
South Snowdonia National Park	p. 590
Ceredigion Coast	p. 596
Central Wales	p. 602
North Wales
Snowdonia	p. 612
Llangollen and around	p. 619
Conwy and the North West Corner	p. 624
The North East Corner	p. 632
Vale of Clwyd	p. 633
Llandudno	p. 636
Edinburgh
The Old Town	p. 646
The New Town	p. 654
West Edinburgh	p. 657
Leith	p. 658
Around Edinburgh	p. 674
Southern Scotland
East Lothian	p. 681
The Borders	p. 683
Dumfries and Galloway	p. 692
Ayrshire	p. 706
Glasgow
City centre	p. 713
The West End	p. 720
South of the Clyde	p. 722
Argyll and Inner Hebrides
Oban and around	p. 741
Mid and South Argyll	p. 746
Isle of Arran	p. 751
Mull and Iona	p. 753
Coll, Tiree and Colonsay	p. 759
Isles of Islay and Jura	p. 761
The Small Isles	p. 765
Northeast Scotland
Dundee	p. 800
Angus	p. 803
Aberdeen	p. 807
Deeside	p. 811
The Don Valley	p. 814
Speyside	p. 817
The Northeast Coast	p. 819
The Highlands
Inverness and around	p. 826
Loch Ness to Fort Augustus	p. 835
Fort Augustus to Fort William	p. 838
Fort William	p. 840
Fort William to Glen Coe	p. 845
Ardgour, Ardnamurchan and Morvern	p. 848
The Road to the Isles	p. 851
The Great Glen to Kyle of Lochalsh	p. 854
Wester Ross	p. 857
North of Ullapool	p. 864
The North Coast	p. 868
The East Coast	p. 871
Strathspey and the Cairngorms	p. 876
Skye and the Outer Hebrides
Isle of Skye	p. 885
Leodhas (Lewis)	p. 891
Na Hearadh (Harris)	p. 895
Uibhist a Tuath (North Uist)	p. 897
Beinn na Faoghla (Benbecuala)	p. 899
Uibhist a Deas (South Uist)	p. 900
Bharraigh (Barra)	p. 902
Orkney and Shetland
Orkney	p. 908
Shetland	p. 919
Background
Footnotes
Index	p. 950
Colour maps	p. 977
Inside front cover
Overview
Price guide
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