Drive Around England & Wales, 2nd; Your guide to great drives. Top 25 Tours.

by Lindsay Hunt

• ISBN13: 9781841577906
• ISBN10: 1841577901
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2007-08-01
• Publisher: Thomas Cook Publishing

Summary

The "Drive Around" series is an indispensable guide to touring a country or region by car. A great combination of guidebook and route map, they highlight all the best places of interest with detours to avoid the main tourist trails. No touring holiday is complete without one of these essential guides. A great combination of guidebook and route map, they contain everything the self-drive traveller needs en route. It includes features such as: unique guidebooks for fly-drive travellers; road safety information for drivers; descriptive instruction setting the scene for the route ahead; rules of the road explained for each destination; full-colour detailed maps with major destinations and places of interest along the route clearly pinpointed; and helps you select accommodation, dining, and shopping options.

Table of Contents

About Drive Around Guides	p. 8
England and Wales at a glance	p. 10
Introduction	p. 12
Travel facts	p. 14
Driver's guide	p. 24
Getting to England and Wales	p. 30
Setting the scene	p. 32
Highlights	p. 38
Northumberland and Hadrian's Wall: Hadrian's Wall marches across a timeless landscape	p. 40
North Pennines: Durham stands on the edge of England's Pennine wilderness	p. 50
East Lakes: Windermere and Ullswater: The lakes and hills of Wordsworth's romantic poetry	p. 58
West Lakes: Beyond the beaten track into the wilder parts of the Lake District	p. 68
Yorkshire Moors: Abbeys, castles and stately homes, plus the city of York	p. 80
Yorkshire Dales: Limestone peaks, waterfalls and caves, and stately Harrogate	p. 90
Peak District: Greystone villages and packhorse bridges	p. 100
Wolds and Fens: A land of water, wide skies and architectural treasures	p. 110
The Welsh Marches: The delights of Ludlow, Chester and Shrewsbury	p. 118
The Cotswolds: Quintessential English tea shops, cottages and rose gardens	p. 126
Thames Valley and Chilterns: Oxford, Windsor, Eton and the stately Thames	p. 136
Norfolk: the Broads and the Samphire Coast: Beaches, birds, brick and flint houses and medieval Norwich	p. 146
Suffolk and North Essex: Constable's home, a land of gentle hills and soaring spires	p. 156
Snowdonia: The highest peaks in England and Wales	p. 166
Pembrokeshire Coast: Surfing beaches and castle-crowned towns	p. 176
Wye Valley and the Brecon Beacons: Timber architecture, bookshops and magnificent walks	p. 184
Rural Kent and the Cinque Ports: From ancient marshes to smuggler-haunted ports	p. 194
Sussex and the Weald: Brighton's exotic pavilion and the chalk cliffs of the Downs	p. 204
Around the Solent: Maritime heritage and the villages of the New Forest	p. 214
Wiltshire and North Somerset: Avebury, Stonehenge and Glastonbury	p. 222
Dorset and East Devon: Bournemouth, Weymouth and the cliffs of Lyme Regis	p. 232
Exmoor and Hartland: Coastal drama, jutting capes and wild moorland	p. 242
Dartmoor and South Hams: Dark inland moors, sunny fertile valleys and magical estuaries	p. 250
Cornwall: Land of fishing villages and Arthurian legend	p. 260
London: The nation's museum-packed, fun-filled capital	p. 270
Index	p. 283
Feedback form	p. 287
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Excerpts

"Flying westwards from Dover above the white cliffs and chalk downlands of southern Britain, our crow might pinpoint the tall spire of Salisbury cathedral and Stonehenge's mysterious megaliths, then spy the sweeping moorland contours of Exmoor and Dartmoor on its port and starboard wings before running out of English air space over the churning surf of the Hartland coast."

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