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I,,,..........li'M» ' ^Tj.sOM Ifi(v wm J'w® 11’1 ' 'Ja’. \ H ¿hi T ' -'«r" - Taja-g*«" mDK FOREWORD WRITER JULIA BRADBURY Julia Bradbury is one of television’s most experienced and versatile presenters. Best known for hosting the country-affairs programme Country file (BBC One) with Matt Baker, Julia has also presented the hugely successful Wainwright’s Walks (BBC Four) and Railway Walks (BBC Two), and the cutting-edge series Kill It, Cook It, Eat It (BBC Three). A well-known face on our screens, Julia’s back catalogue has included the consumer-affairs programme Watchdog (BBC One), and the two travel series Rough Guide to ... (Channel Five) and Wish You Were Here ... ? (ITV). Prior to that she was the Los Angeles Correspondent for GMTV (ITV), and hosted EXCLUSIVE!, one of the launch programmes for Channel 5. ■ eyewitness travel EYEWITNESS TRAVEL GUIDES Illustrated and comprehensive, our award-winning series of over 100 guides shows you what the others only tell you. 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Visit traveldk.com to build your own travel guide and receive exclusive offers WHERE TO GO WHEN GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND WHERETO GO WHEN GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND FOREWORD BY JULIA BRADBURY CONTENTS LONDON, NEW YORK, MELBOURNE, MUNICH AND DELHI FOREWORD 6 LIST MANAGER Christine Stroyan PROJECT EDITOR Alexandra Farrell DESIGN MANAGERS Mabel Chan, Sunita Gahir SPRING SUMMER 56 jacket Designer Tessa Bindloss DTP DESIGNER Jamie McNeill SPRING IN GREAT BRITAIN 10 SUMMER IN GREAT BRITAIN 58 AND IRELAND AND IRELAND PICTURE RESEARCHER Ellen Root CARTOGRAPHER Stuart James BRITAIN IN BLOOM 12 BESIDE THE SEA 60 PRODUCTION CONTROLLER Liz Cherry Douglas Amrine HAY FESTIVAL, HAY-ON-WYE 14 SNOWDONIA 62 publisher CENTRAL WALES NORTH WALES Produced for Dorling Kindersley by DOVER CASTLE 16 ISLE OF WIGHT 64 cobaltid SOUTHEAST ENGLAND SOUTHEAST ENGLAND The Stables, Wood Farm, Deopham Road, SUFFOLK HERITAGE COAST 18 POWERSCOURT ESTATE 66 Attleborough, Norfolk NR17 1AJ EASTERN ENGLAND EASTERN IRELAND www.cobaltid.co.uk LIVERPOOL 20 NORFOLK BROADS 68 NORTHWEST ENGLAND EASTERN ENGLAND Kati Dye, Louise Abbott, Robine Sdaitmorpsson, Sarah Tomley, Maddy King, SPEYSIDE 22 BROADSTAIRS 70 HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS, SCOTLAND SOUTHEAST ENGLAND Neil Mason, Marek Walisiewicz NEW ALRESFORD 24 DERBYSHIRE PEAK DISTRICT 72 DESIGNERS Lloyd Tilbury, Paul Reid, SOUTHEAST ENGLAND EAST MIDLANDS, ENGLAND Annika Skoog, Claire Dale, Darren Bland PENDLE HILL 26 COMMON RIDINGS 74 NORTHWEST ENGLAND SOUTHERN SCOTLAND First Published in Great Britain in 2010 by Dorling Kindersley Limited DERRY 28 STOUR VALLEY 76 80 Strand, London WC2R ORL NORTHERN IRELAND EASTERN ENGLAND BEMPTON CLIFFS 30 SALCOMBE 78 Printed and bound in Singapore by Star Standard NORTHEAST ENGLAND SOUTHWEST ENGLAND Copyright © 2010 Dorling Kindersley Limited, London STRATFORD-UPON-AVON 32 DINGLE PENINSULA 80 A Penguin Company WEST MIDLANDS, ENGLAND SOUTHERN IRELAND Foreword copyright © Julia Bradbury 2010 HADRIAN'S WALL 34 BRISTOL 82 NORTHEAST ENGLAND SOUTHWEST ENGLAND ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 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SOUTH WALES www.traveldk.com CHESHIRE RING 104 NORTHWEST ENGLAND MAIN COVER IMAGE: Stonehenge, Wiltshire EDINBURGH FESTIVAL 106 half title page IMAGE: Sphinx rock on Great Gable, Lake District SOUTHERN SCOTLAND TITLE PAGE IMAGE: Sunset over Esthwaite Water, Lake District CONTENTS: View of River Wye from Symonds Yat, Herefordshire MORE GREAT IDEAS FOR SUMMER 108 FOREWORD IMAGE: Temple Bar district, Dublin, Ireland AUTUMN 110 WINTER 158 AUTUMN IN GREAT BRITAIN 112 WINTER IN GREAT BRITAIN 160 AND IRELAND AND IRELAND FOOD, GLORIOUS FOOD 114 THE FESTIVE SEASON 162 LOWER WYE VALLEY 116 GIANT'S CAUSEWAY 164 SOUTH WALES NORTHERN IRELAND HIGHLAND GAMES 118 STONEHENGE 166 HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS, SCOTLAND SOUTHWEST ENGLAND BEAMISH 120 SHETLAND 168 NORTHEAST ENGLAND HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS, SCOTLAND WINDSOR 122 GLENDALOUGH 170 SOUTHEAST ENGLAND EASTERN IRELAND BLACKPOOL 124 ISLE OF MAN 172 NORTHWEST ENGLAND IRISH SEA THE CHILTERNS 126 CAVES OF CASTLETON 174 SOUTHEAST ENGLAND AND BUXTON EAST MIDLANDS, ENGLAND GALWAY 128 WESTERN IRELAND GLASGOW WINTERFEST 176 SOUTHERN SCOTLAND PORTMEIRION 130 NORTH WALES DARTMOOR 178 SOUTHWEST ENGLAND MOUNTAINS OFMOURNE 132 NORTHERN IRELAND THE FENS 180 EASTERN ENGLAND FOUNTAINS ABBEY 134 NORTHEAST ENGLAND YORK 182 NORTHEAST ENGLAND LEWES 136 SOUTHEAST ENGLAND PEMBROKESHIRE COAST 184 CENTRAL WALES STOKE-ON-TRENT 138 WEST MIDLANDS, ENGLAND PORTSMOUTH 186 SOUTHEAST ENGLAND LOCH LOMOND 140 CENTRAL SCOTLAND THE BRECON BEACONS 188 CENTRAL WALES GREAT NORTH RUN, NEWCASTLE 142 NORTHEAST ENGLAND BURNS HERITAGE TRAIL 190 SOUTHERN SCOTLAND MANCHESTER 144 NORTHWEST ENGLAND CAIRNGORMS 192 HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS, SCOTLAND THE NEW FOREST 146 SOUTHEAST ENGLAND BIRMINGHAM 194 WEST MIDLANDS, ENGLAND BUN RATTY CASTLE 148 SOUTHERN IRELAND CAMBRIDGE 196 EASTERN ENGLAND NORTH CORNWALL 150 SOUTHWEST ENGLAND MORE GREAT IDEAS FOR WINTER 198 HEREFORDSHIRE 152 WEST MIDLANDS, ENGLAND RIVER TAY 154 CENTRAL SCOTLAND REGIONAL DIRECTORY 200 MORE GREAT IDEAS FOR AUTUMN 156 INDEX 266 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 272 Local codes are given for all telephone numbers in this book. If you are dialling from abroad, use the appropriate international dialling code. FOREWORD I can honestly say there is no place like home. My peregrinations abroad have added to my personal history and stretched my imagination, but there is still so much I want to do and see on our islands - so much that There are some places that you don’t need an excuse or reason to visit - I find just as exciting as anything the rest of the world has to offer. Giant’s you simply must. These are places that add essential and memorable Causeway, for example, is one of the most unusual and spectacular sights experiences to your personal history. Arriving at the summit of Scafell you could ever come across - a natural geological phenomenon that Pike in the Lake District is one of my moments. It was late, and the looks as if it could have been designed and dreamt up by a pioneering evening light glistened over the boulder-strewn landscape. When I architect like Zaha Hadid. I was born in Ireland, so am drawn back to reached the summit (camera crew in tow), powerful fresh winds its romantic landscape time and time again, but it is years since I visited blustered all around - gusts strong enough to fall back onto. I was sure Giant’s Causeway - and a revisit is long overdue. If you were to follow its I could hear a loose spinnaker fluttering in the wind, but there were no tens of thousands of hexagonal rock columns into the sea at the Antrim boats up there on that ragged rocky surface. The sky was tinged a perfect Coast you would emerge in Scotland! Tip-toeing over tiles 60 million shade of misty pink. It was intoxicating. years old - now that would be an aquatic adventure to remember... I am lucky enough to have adventured through quite a few spots on A man who understands the power of the pilgrimage is the actor the globe because of my work. I have met and travelled with people who Peter Florence, creator of the Hay Festival and still involved today. This have taught me lots and shown me wonderful places - from the lush, now-annual literary love-fest is the perfect meeting of culture and singing forests of Costa Rica to the mammoth Navajo Sandstone Zion countryside. The two have long been intertwined; writers, poets and Canyon in Utah and the ever-reaching bush veldt of South Africa - but artists have always been inspired by landscape and nature. Anyone who nhHBK'l has heard a chorus sung from a hilltop, or watched A Midsummer Night’s stopping to think about how things used to be not so long ago that makes Dream sitting on a grassy bank, cannot help but be drawn to Hay. Such you appreciate where we are now. Fountains Abbey in North Yorkshire a simple idea - go to one of the most beautiful parts of the country, sit has been described as “England’s most sublime architectural ruin” and on a patch of green softness and read, listen and chat to people who, Tintern Abbey in the Wye Valley inspired Turner to put paint to canvas, like you, care passionately about books, writing, creativity and the and Wordsworth ink to paper. Perhaps you will be equally stimulated. countryside. Bill Clinton called it “the Woodstock of the mind”. I hope this book is not just a coffee table companion to impress If, like me, you can only sit for so long, then combine your literary your friends and family with what you “could” or “may” do, but an leanings at Hay with adventure, and explore further over the Welsh inspirational guide as to what you “will” and “can” do over the next few border into the Brecon Beacons. This stunning location is an outdoor years. Exploration really does stir the imagination. Whether it’s a canal paradise. Kayak up the River Wye (why? because you can), pony-trek cruise along the Cheshire Ring, a walk along mighty Hadrian’s Wall or an across the Black Mountains or hike across the Beacons themselves. escape to Broadstairs on the Kent coast (where Charles Dickens penned Or do you prefer to be beside the seaside? Why not combine Brighton’s David Copperfield), set yourself a mini-mission every so often to explore vibrant annual Arts Festival in May with an exploration of the South a little more of what lies right on your doorstep. More than 2,000 Downs? This vast, beautiful swathe of chalky uplands and dramatic special places and marvellous things to do await you in this beautiful cliffs is a nature-lover’s delight, with butterflies and bluebells, rare wild book. Each one promises to be an adventure, so remember to keep orchids, swallows and swifts, warblers and linnets. notes. This is a little bit of personal history you’re making. 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