Signpost Guide England and Wales; Your Guide to Great Drives

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• ISBN13: 9780762706945
• ISBN10: 0762706945
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2000-12-01
• Publisher: Thomas Cook Publishing

Summary

People who travel by car have the best opportunities to explore beyond typical tourist destinations, but driving in an unfamiliar region can be a daunting prospect. New Signpost Guides provide practical information to guide motorists through unfamiliar routes, signs, traffic laws, and parking. Hundreds of attractions are described in detail, together with recommendations for shopping, dining, and accommodations.

Each Signpost Guide features:
-- Full-color, detailed area maps, supported by driving directions and route plans
-- Helpful and practical tips, including average driving times and distances
-- Individual chapters on major cities that supply information essential to getting around without a car
-- Unique ratings system to help travelers sample the very best of each region

Table of Contents

About Signpost Guides	8	(2)
England and Wales at a glance	10	(2)
Introduction	12	(2)
Travel facts	14	(10)
Driver's guide	24	(6)
Getting to England and Wales	30	(2)
Setting the scene	32	(6)
Highlights	38	(2)
Northumberland and Hadrian's Wall	40	(10)
Hadrian's Wall marches across a timeless landscape
North Pennines	50	(8)
Durham stands on the edge of England's Pennine wilderness
East Lakes: Windermere and Ullswater	58	(10)
The lakes and hills of Wordsworth's romantic poetry
West Lakes	68	(12)
Beyond the beaten track into the wilder parts of the Lake District
Yorkshire Moors	80	(10)
Abbeys, castles and stately homes, plus the city of York
Yorkshire Dales	90	(10)
Limestone peaks, waterfalls and caves, and stately Harrogate
Peak District	100	(10)
Greystone villages and packhorse bridges
Wolds and Fens	110	(8)
A land of water, wide skies and architectural treasures
The Welsh Marches	118	(8)
The delights of Ludlow, Chester and Shrewsbury
The Cotswolds	126	(10)
Quintessential English tea shops, cottages and rose gardens
Thames Valley and Chilterns	136	(10)
Oxford, Windsor, Eton and the stately Thames
Norfolk: the Broads and the Samphire Coast	146	(10)
Beaches, birds, brick and flint houses and medieval Norwich
Suffolk and North Essex	156	(10)
Constable's home, a land of gentle hills and soaring spires
Snowdonia	166	(10)
The highest peaks in England and Wales
Pembrokeshire Coast	176	(8)
Surfing beaches and castle-crowned towns
Wye Valley and the Brecon Beacons	184	(10)
Timber architecture, bookshops and magnificent walks
Rural Kent and the Cinque Ports	194	(10)
From ancient marshes to smuggler-haunted ports
Sussex and the Weald	204	(10)
Brighton's exotic pavilion and the chalk cliffs of the downs
Around the Solent	214	(8)
Maritime heritage and the villages of the New Forest
Wiltshire and North Somerset	222	(10)
Avebury, Stonehenge and Glastonbury
Dorset and East Devon	232	(10)
Bournemouth, Weymouth and the cliffs of Lyme Regis
Exmoor and Hartland	242	(8)
Coastal drama, jutting capes and wild moorland
Dartmoor and South Hams	250	(10)
Dark inland moors, sunny fertile valleys and magical estuaries
Cornwall	260	(10)
Land of fishing villages and Arthurian legend
London	270	(13)
The nation's museum-packed, fun-filled capital
Index	283	(4)
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