Footprint England Book

	Introducing
	A foot in the door	9
	Essentials
	Planning your trip	18
	Where to go	18
	When to go	19
	Tours and operators	20
	British tourist offices	21
	Finding out more	21
	Language	22
	Disabled travellers	22
	Gay and lesbian travellers	22
	Student travellers	23
	Travelling with children	23
	Women travellers	24
	Working in England	24
	Before you travel	24
	Visas	24
	What to take	26
	Insurance	26
	Money	26
	Getting there	28
	Air	28
	Rail	31
	Road	31
	Sea	32
	Touching down	32
	Airport information	32
	Tourist information	35
	Local customs and laws	36
	Responsible tourism	37
	Safety	37
	Getting around	37
	Air	38
	Rail	31
	Road	31
	Maps	40
	Sleeping	40
	Eating	42
	Entertainment	43
	Festivals and events	43
	Shopping	46
	Sport and special interest	47
	Health	52
	Keeping in touch	52
	Guide
	London
	Central London	62
	Trafalgar Square	62
	The Strand and Embankment	66
	Leicester Square	67
	Soho	67
	Covent Garden	69
	Mayfair and Regent St	72
	Piccadilly and St James's	73
	Oxford Street	76
	Westminster and Whitehall	76
	Victoria, Belgravia and Pimlico	79
	Knightsbridge, South Kensington, Hyde Park	82
	Chelsea	85
	Marylebone and Regent's Park	85
	Euston, St Pancras and King's Cross	86
	Bloomsbury and Fitzrovia	87
	Holborn and Clerkenwell	89
	The City	90
	Bankside and Southwark	93
	South Bank and Waterloo	98
	The Tower and around	101
	East London	101
	East End	102
	Docklands	103
	Greenwich	104
	North London	105
	Hampstead and Highgate	106
	Islington	107
	West London	108
	Notting Hill and Kensington High Street	108
	Richmond, Kew and Hampton Court	109
	South London	110
	Listings	111
	The Southeast
	Canterbury	146
	North Kent Coast	152
	Isle of Sheppey	155
	Whitstable	156
	Isle of Thanet	157
	East Kent Coast	163
	Dover	163
	Coast north of Dover	166
	Coast south of Dover	169
	Folkestone	169
	Romney and Walland Marshes	169
	Hythe, New Romney and Dungeness	170
	Rye and around	172
	Hastings	173
	North Downs and The Weald	178
	Royal Tunbridge Wells	180
	Around Tunbridge Wells	181
	South and east of Tunbridge Wells	183
	Ashdown Forest and around	185
	Eastbourne to Brighton	188
	Brighton and Hove	198
	Brighton to Arundel	210
	Arundel	212
	Chichester	215
	Around Chichester	216
	Surrey	218
	Guildford	218
	Around Guildford	219
	Dorking	219
	The South
	Oxfordshire	224
	Oxford	224
	North of Oxford	232
	West of Oxford	235
	River Thames	246
	Vale of the White Horse to Goring Gap	246
	Reading to Maidenhead	255
	Windsor and Eton	262
	Chilterns and St Albans	267
	Chiltern Hundreds	267
	Hundreds of Aylesbury and around	270
	St Albans	272
	West Berkshire and Wiltshire	277
	Newbury and the Berkshire Downs	277
	Marlborough and around	280
	Salisbury	282
	North of Salisbury	285
	South and west of Salisbury	286
	Hampshire	290
	Winchester	290
	West of Winchester	295
	East of Winchester	296
	New Forest	297
	Portsmouth	300
	Southampton	302
	Isle of Wight	309
	Northwest Wight	311
	Northeast Wight	313
	Southeast Wight	314
	South and west Wight	316
	The Southwest
	Bristol	324
	Gloucestershire	333
	North Cotswolds	337
	Cheltenham and Gloucester	337
	South Cotswolds	340
	Bath and around	346
	Somerset	362
	Wells and the Mendips	362
	Glastonbury	364
	Somerset Levels, Taunton and the Quantocks	366
	Exmoor	368
	Dorset	376
	Shaftesbury and Sherborne	376
	Dorset Downs	378
	Bournemouth and around	381
	Isle of Purbeck	383
	Weymouth to Lyme Regis	385
	Exeter and the south Devon coast	392
	Torbay and South Hams	400
	Plymouth and Dartmoor	405
	North Devon coast	413
	Lynton to Barnstaple	413
	Lundy Island	415
	Bideford to Hartland	415
	North Cornish coast	418
	South Cornish coast	425
	Penwith Peninsula	432
	Isles of Scilly	437
	East Anglia
	Essex	448
	Saffron Walden and around	448
	Colchester, Constable Country and around	450
	Essex coast: Southend to Harwich	453
	Suffolk	457
	Bury St Edmunds	458
	Around Bury St Edmunds	460
	Suffolk coast: Ipswich to Southwold	461
	Norfolk	471
	Lowestoft, Great Yarmouth and around	471
	The Broads	474
	Swaffham and Breckland	477
	Norwich	479
	North coast: Cromer to King's Lynn	483
	The north Norfolk coast road	485
	Cambridgeshire	493
	Cambridge and around	493
	Ely and the Fens	500
	East Midlands
	Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire	510
	Bedfordshire	510
	Northampton and around	512
	Leicestershire and Rutland	515
	Nottinghamshire and Derby	524
	Lincolnshire	535
	Lincoln	535
	The Worlds and around	539
	Stamford	542
	West Midlands
	Birmingham	550
	Warwickshire	561
	Stratford-upon-Avon	561
	Around Stratford	564
	Coventry	568
	Herefordshire and Worcestershire	577
	Worecester, the Malverns and the Vale of Evesham	577
	Hereford and around	582
	Wye Valley and the Forest of Dean	587
	Shropshire	597
	Staffordshire	604
	Northwest
	Manchester	610
	The Peak District	625
	Buxton	628
	The Hope Valley	630
	Cheshire	640
	Chester	641
	Around Cheshirer	644
	Liverpool	648
	Lancashire	660
	Blackpool	661
	Lancaster	663
	The Ribble Valley	664
	Isle of Man	669
	Yorkshire
	York and Central Yorkshire	682
	York	682
	Around York	691
	North York Moors	696
	National Park (West)	697
	National Park (East)	700
	Coastal Yorkshire	705
	Whitby	707
	Scarborough	711
	Hull	714
	Beverley	716
	South and West Yorkshire	721
	Sheffield	721
	Leeds	724
	Bradford	728
	Halifax	731
	Yorkshire Dales	737
	South Dales	737
	East Dales	743
	Harrogate	743
	Northeast Dales	747
	The North
	Cumbria and the Lake District	756
	Kendal and around	760
	Windermere and Bowness-on-Windermere	762
	Ambleside	763
	Grasmere	765
	Hawkshead and Coniston	766
	Keswick and around	767
	Ullswater	768
	The Lune and Eden Valleys	769
	The Cumbrian coast	771
	Hadrian's Wall	784
	Newcastle and Gateshead	787
	County Durham	796
	Durham	797
	Northumberland	803
	Alnwick and the coast	803
	Coast from Alnwick	804
	Central Northumberland	807
	Background
	History	814
	Culture	832
	Architecture	832
	Literature	835
	Theatre	839
	Music	841
	Film	844
	Books	845
	Footnotes
	Index	848
	Map index	858
	Map symbols	859
	Credits	860
	Acknowledgements	861
	Complete title listing	862