Explore United Kingdom by region

The capital and its coast and shires: castle towns and cathedral cities within an hour of London, the Kent oyster coast, the Sussex seaside, and the medieval hill towns of the Weald.

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Georgian Bath and harbourside Bristol down through the Somerset levels and the Jurassic Coast to the fishing towns, surf beaches, and turquoise coves of Devon and Cornwall.

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Honey-stone villages and dreaming spires: the Cotswold hills, university Oxford, Regency Cheltenham, and Shakespeare's Stratford at the green heart of England.

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The colleges and backs of Cambridge and the wide-sky Suffolk coast: genteel resorts, shingle beaches, brewing towns, and some of the best fish and chips in the country.

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Roman walls and Viking streets, the abbeys and harbours of the Yorkshire coast, the fells and lakes of the Lake District, and the reinvented waterfronts of Chester and Liverpool.

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From the festival capital Edinburgh and rejuvenated Glasgow to the golf coast of Fife, the sea lochs of the west, and the mountains, glens, and island gateways of the Highlands. Split into Lowlands and Highlands & Islands once it carries ten or more towns.

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Castle-ringed capital Cardiff, the walled harbour towns and coast path of Pembrokeshire, the Victorian resorts and steam railways of the north, and the peaks of Snowdonia. Split into North and South Wales once it carries ten or more towns.

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