Great Britain category: 1218 books

In my misguided imagination, I had pictured Scarborough to be no more than a steep cliff overlooking a pleasant bay, with a couple of streets of neat houses that led to open countryside. Scarborough is in reality, very extensive, with row upon row of very tidy, yellow-brick, Victorian and Edwardian...

Canterbury (England) Travel Guide - Tiki Travel The Tiki Travel guides use the text from WikiTravel.org, a complete and reliable worldwide travel guide written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. An active table of contents enables users to jump directly to the section selected....

London Attractions, Entertainment and Restaurants in full color Nice coverage on Budget Hotels, Oyester Card, London Travel Card and 2 for 1 deals Every year more than 30 million people visit the United Kingdom, and more than half of those choose London . Most tourist who visit here...

Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Birmingham. Birmingham was at the heart of the UK's industrial revolution, and its wealth was built upon the multitude of trades that were spawned. This led to a massive canal network, with more miles of canals than Venice or Amsterdam. ...

Within this guide we have attempted to bring you the very best of the current contemporary, boutique and luxury hotels available within the UK today. We have listed our choice by area, and not always cost defined, although it normally goes without saying, that this level of accommodation does come...

ACROSS THE MOORS FROM PICKERING TO WHITBY

It may not be the longest, deepest or widest river in the world but few bodies of water reveal as much about a nation’s past and present, or as suggestive of its future, as England’s River Thames. Tales of legendary lock-keepers and long-vanished weirs evoke the distant past of a river which evolved...

Edinburgh (Scotland) Travel Guide - Tiki Travel The Tiki Travel guides use the text from WikiTravel.org, a complete and reliable worldwide travel guide written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. An active table of contents enables users to jump directly to the section selected....

Welcome to Harry Potter Places Book One--London and London Side-Along Apparations, the first of five guidebooks designed to help Potterites visit Potterverse places in the UK, including real-life places mentioned in JKR's novels and movie film sites. On the website you'll find Book One's Table of...

Edinburgh, Scotland is one of Europe’s most breathtaking cities. With beautiful architecture, the city’s Old Town has ancient, labyrinthine cobbled streets and small alleyways. On the other hand, New Town has a happening shopping and nighttime entertainment scene. Edinburgh attracts four million...

Brighton & Hove, as it is  now formally known, has undergone many physical and cultural changes since its Regency hey-days. Although many of the wonderful white, bow-fronted Nash properties remain, and Brighton property prices have held up through these difficult times, the social mix of...

Of all the places I have covered in these UK guides, Canterbury is probably one of the most unusual. Unlike York or Chester, where there appears to be a set area of conservation and pedestrian access  surrounded by a ring road, thus, somehow clearly defining its boundaries Canterbury is very...

When writer David McFadden sets out on a tour of Ireland, he is determined to so do in a relatively innocent state. Using as a guide only In Search of Ireland, a 1930 title by travel writer H. V. Morton, he plans to follow the same route, to try to determine how things have changed and how they have...

London is a city brimful of culinary possibilities, from lively markets to Michelin-starred restaurants. This third edition of Eat London is completely revised and updated, with entries highlighting the very best food stops not to be missed on a tour of London in 14 chapters. This is much more...