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Explore Britain

The independent travellers' guide

There are plenty of websites which will give you top-down tourist information about the major cities and attractions in Britain; this website takes a different approach and lists every town and village in mainland Great Britain and the associated offshire islands together with a comprehensive list of heritage and culture related tourist attractions. Features include:


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or use the map or list of places by county to find towns, villages, geographic and historical features, visitor attractions and hotels across Great Britain.


Most Popular Locations

Geographical/Historical Features

Hawkhill Inclosure, Hampshire
Forest or wood

Burbage Brook, Derbyshire
Water feature

Earlstoun Linn, Dumfries and Galloway
Water feature

Hobdale Beck, Cumbria
Water feature

Luscombe Castle, Devon
Antiquity (non-Roman)

Shillinglee Park, West Sussex
Antiquity (non-Roman)

Castle Hill, Somerset
Mountain or large hill

Ashclyst Forest, Devon
Forest or wood

Rainthorpe Hall, Norfolk
Antiquity (non-Roman)

High Wood, Wiltshire
Forest or wood

Roydon Hall, Kent
Antiquity (non-Roman)

Long Itchington Wood, Warwickshire
Forest or wood

Gnaton Hall, Devon
Antiquity (non-Roman)

Moorlakes Wood, Swansea
Forest or wood

Possingworth Manor Ho, East Sussex
Antiquity (non-Roman)

Derry's Wood, Hertfordshire
Forest or wood

Hamp Brook, Somerset
Water feature

Hoath Wood, Kent
Forest or wood

Afon Syfynwy, Pembrokeshire
Water feature

Back Burn of Slickly, Highland
Water feature

Visitor Attractions

Austrian Cultural Forum, London, City of London
Gallery

Forum of East Midlands Military Museums, Nottinghamshire
Museum

Riverhill House, Kent

The Forum - Library & Tourism Centre Norwich, Norfolk
Library

The Brindley Theatre and Arts Centre, Runcorn, Cheshire
Gallery

Otter Trust Earsham, Suffolk
Animals and wildlife

Lyme Park, Cheshire
Historic building

Thorington Hall, Suffolk
Historic building

Blandford Forum Museum, Dorset
Museum

Highclere Castle, Berkshire

West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village, Suffolk
Archaeological site

Museum of Power, Langford, Essex
Museum

Groombridge Place Gardens & Enchanted Forest, East Sussex
Open space, park or garden

Ridgewell Airfield Commemorative Museum, Suffolk
Museum

RAF Manston Spitfire and Hurricane Memorial Museum, Kent
Museum

Touchstones Rochdale, Lancashire
Museum

Hindhead Commons and the Devil's Punch Bowl, Surrey
Open space, park or garden

Beccles & District Museum, Suffolk
Historic building

Kit's Coty House and Little Kit's Coty House, Kent

Apethorpe Hall, Northamptonshire

Cities, Towns and Villages

Brompton, City of Westminster
Other settlement

Bocaddon, Cornwall
Other settlement

Bussex, Somerset
Other settlement

Bedford, Bedfordshire
Town

Beltinge, Kent
Other settlement

Trelew, Cornwall
Other settlement

Hamp, Somerset
Other settlement

Pirbright Camp, Surrey
Other settlement

Guineaford, Devon
Other settlement

Hopton, Suffolk
Other settlement

Whitby, North Yorkshire
Town

Foxhole, Norfolk
Other settlement

Compton, Hampshire
Other settlement

Rhives, Highland
Other settlement

Bay View, Kent
Other settlement

Netherne on-the-Hill, Surrey
Other settlement

Hackforth, North Yorkshire
Other settlement

Blandford Forum, Dorset
Town

Llantrisant, Isle of Anglesey
Other settlement

Faversham, Kent
Town


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