British Isles

It’s easy to take for granted those things immediately around us, but the truth is that our own backyard. the British Isles, offers attractions to rival holiday destinations anywhere in the world: the dramatic landscapes of the Scottish Highlands and the Dorset coast; beer in a medieval pub and afternoon tea with scones in an elegant café; castles with turrets and churches with dainty spires; Cotswold stone and Shakespeare’s England;  whisky distilleries and micro breweries.

That’s not to mention Stonehenge and Hadrian’s Wall; the Giant’s Causeway and Titanic Belfast; Offa’s Dyke Path and Snowdonia National Park; the Millennium Stadium and Wembley; the British Museum, the Houses of Parliament, Big Ben and Tate Modern.

We have a rich history and the very best of culture, shops, museums, galleries, restaurants and nature. Visit Britain promotes the country under the strapline ‘Britain is Great’. It’s difficult to argue.

Cambridgeshire & The Fens

Cheshire

Chilterns & Thames Valley

Cornwall and Isles of Scilly

Cotswolds

Devon (East) and the Jurassic Coast

Dorset

Dumfries and Galloway

Exmoor National Park

Hebrides (Inner)

Hebrides (Outer)

How to Travel Through Kent

Isle of Wight

Norfolk

North and Mid Devon

Northumberland

Orkney

Peak District

Shropshire

Somerset

South Devon & Dartmoor

South Wales

Suffolk

Sussex

Yorkshire (Dales)

Yorkshire (Wolds & North York Moors)

Books on the British Isles

52 Wildlife Weekends
A Connemara Journey
A Summer of British Wildlife
Britain from the Rails
Britain’s Best Small Hills
Britain’s Sacred Places (Slow Travel)
Cambridgeshire & The Fens (Slow Travel)
Camping Road Trips UK
Caving, Canyoning, Coasteering…
Cheshire (Slow Travel)
Chilterns & Thames Valley (Slow Travel)
Connemara Mollie
Cornwall & the Isles of Scilly
Cotswolds (Slow Travel)
Country of Larks: A Chiltern Journey
Cycling in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly
Cycling in East Anglia
Cycling in Northumbria
Cycling in Surrey
Dark Skies of Britain & Ireland
Dog-Friendly Weekends
Dorset (Slow Travel)
Dumfries and Galloway (Slow Travel)
Durham (Slow Travel)
East Devon & The Jurassic Coast (Slow Travel)
Exmoor National Park (Slow Travel)
Family Wildlife Adventures
Freedom Pass London
Heritage Weekends
Isle of Wight (Slow Travel)
Juicy Crones
Kent (Slow Travel)
Norfolk (Slow Travel)
North & Mid Devon (Slow Travel)
North Devon & Exmoor (Slow Travel)
North East Scotland (Slow Travel)
North York Moors & Yorkshire Wolds (Slow Travel)
North York Moors & Yorkshire Wolds Including York & the Coast (Slow Travel)
Northumberland (Slow Travel)
Orkney
Outer Hebrides
Oxford: Ben le Vay’s Eccentric Oxford
Paddling Britain
Peak District (Slow Travel)
Scotland from the Rails
Scotland Highlands & Islands
Scotland’s North Highlands (Slow Travel)
Shropshire (Slow Travel)
Skye & the Inner Hebrides
Slow Travel Family Breaks
Somerset (Slow Travel)
South Devon & Dartmoor (Slow Travel)
Suffolk (Slow Travel)
Sussex (Slow Travel)
Unlikely Positions in Unlikely Places
Wales: South Wales
Walking the Wharfe
Wild About Britain
Wild About Dorset
Wild Times

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