England and Wales : Your guide to great drives. Top 25 Tours Book

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