Cities and places in the UK
From the northern cities to Cornish villages, from the Highlands to the university towns.
British cities
An overview of the cities and places of the United Kingdom: the capitals of the four nations, the great cities of the north, university and historic…
Edinburgh guide
The complete guide to Edinburgh: the castle and the Royal Mile, Holyrood and Arthur's Seat, the Georgian New Town, free museums, the August Festival…
Manchester
Guide to Manchester: the history of Cottonopolis, free museums, the Northern Quarter and Ancoats, Old Trafford and the Etihad, music from Joy…
Birmingham
Guide to Birmingham: the history of the workshop of the world, the Library of Birmingham, museums, the Jewellery Quarter, the canals, Digbeth and the…
Liverpool
Guide to Liverpool: the waterfront and Albert Dock, free museums, the two cathedrals, Beatles sites, Anfield and Everton, the history of the port…
Glasgow
Guide to Glasgow: the history of the second city of the Empire, Kelvingrove, the Riverside and the Burrell, Mackintosh, the cathedral and the…
Leeds
Guide to Leeds: the Victorian centre, Kirkgate Market and the Victoria Quarter arcades, the Royal Armouries, Kirkstall Abbey, sport, culture and…
Newcastle
Guide to Newcastle: Grainger Town and Grey Street, the castle and the Quayside, the Tyne bridges, BALTIC and the Angel of the North, the Geordies and…
Cardiff
Guide to Cardiff: Burges's castle, the Victorian arcades, the National Museum and St Fagans, the bay and the Senedd, the Principality Stadium and…
Belfast
Guide to Belfast: City Hall and the centre, Titanic Belfast, the murals and peace walls, the Troubles and the Good Friday Agreement, museums, pubs…
Bristol
Guide to Bristol: the history of Cabot, the slave trade and Brunel, the SS Great Britain and the Clifton Suspension Bridge, the Harbourside and M…
Sheffield
Guide to Sheffield: the history of knives and stainless steel, Kelham Island and the industrial museums, the Winter Garden, Park Hill, Sheffield FC…
Nottingham
Guide to Nottingham: history, the castle and Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem, more than 800 caves, the Lace Market, Wollaton Hall, Sherwood Forest and the…
Leicester
Guide to Leicester: Roman and medieval history, Richard III found under a car park, the cathedral, the Jewry Wall, the Golden Mile and Diwali, the…
Coventry
Guide to Coventry: the legend of Lady Godiva, wool, bicycles and cars, the 1940 Blitz, the ruins and Basil Spence's new cathedral, Spon Street, the…
Bradford
Guide to Bradford: the history of wool, City Hall and its Florentine tower, Little Germany, the National Science and Media Museum, Cartwright Hall…
Hull
Guide to Hull: the history of the port and deep-sea fishing, Charles I at Beverley Gate, the Old Town and its museums, Wilberforce House, Hull…
Stoke-on-Trent
Guide to Stoke-on-Trent: the story of Wedgwood and bone china, the six towns of the Potteries, World of Wedgwood, Gladstone Pottery Museum…
Wolverhampton
Guide to Wolverhampton: Lady Wulfrun and the city's history, locks, japanning and Sunbeam, Wolves and the birth of the European Cup, St Peter's and…
Derby
Guide to Derby: Romans and Vikings, the silk mill and industrial espionage in Piedmont, the Derwent Valley World Heritage Site, trains, Rolls-Royce…
Swansea
Guide to Swansea: the world capital of copper, Dylan Thomas, the Maritime Quarter and its museums, the market with cockles and laverbread, Mumbles…
Aberdeen
Guide to Aberdeen: granite, fishing and oil, Old Aberdeen and King's College, Marischal College, the museums, Footdee and the dolphins, the beach…
Dundee
Guide to Dundee: jute, jam and journalism, Kengo Kuma's V&A, Scott's RRS Discovery, The McManus and Verdant Works, the Law, Broughty Ferry, the Tay…
Portsmouth
Guide to Portsmouth: the Historic Dockyard with Nelson's HMS Victory, Henry VIII's Mary Rose and Warrior, the Spinnaker Tower, Old Portsmouth…
Reading
Guide to Reading: Henry I's abbey and Sumer is icumen in, Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde and the gaol, the Banksy mural, Huntley & Palmers biscuits, the…
Northampton
Guide to Northampton: Thomas Becket and the castle, the battle of 1460, the Great Fire, the shoemaking tradition and Kinky Boots, the museum with the…
Luton
Guide to Luton: straw plaiting and Britain's hat capital, the Hat District, Vauxhall, the airport's story, Wardown House Museum, Stockwood, St…
Milton Keynes
Guide to Milton Keynes: the 1967 new town, the road grid and redways, the concrete cows, Bletchley Park, Alan Turing and Enigma, Colossus, Centre:MK…
Sunderland
Guide to Sunderland: the Monkwearmouth monastery and Bede, the Codex Amiatinus, the shipyards and the Mackems, glass and the National Glass Centre…
Norwich
Guide to Norwich: England's second city in the Middle Ages, the Strangers and the canaries, Kett's Rebellion, the cathedral and cloister, Edith…
Bournemouth
Guide to Bournemouth: the town born among the pines, the smugglers, eleven kilometres of beaches and the chines, the piers, the gardens, the…
Southend-on-Sea
Guide to Southend-on-Sea: the birth of the resort, the world's longest pier and its railway, the seafront and Adventure Island, the Anglo-Saxon…
Swindon
Guide to Swindon: Brunel and the Great Western Railway works, the Railway Village, the Mechanics' Institute and the railwaymen's health model, the…
Middlesbrough
Guide to Middlesbrough: the Quaker foundation, Eston iron and Ironopolis, Dorman Long and Sydney Harbour Bridge, the Transporter and Newport bridges…
Peterborough
Guide to Peterborough: the monastery of Medeshamstede, the Norman cathedral and its painted ceiling, Catherine of Aragon and Mary, Queen of Scots…
Huddersfield
Guide to Huddersfield: worsted cloth and the Luddites, England's finest station, the George Hotel and the birth of rugby league, the Victorian…
Ipswich
Guide to Ipswich: Anglo-Saxon Gipeswic, Cardinal Wolsey, Christchurch Mansion with Constable and Gainsborough, the Ancient House, the Waterfront…
Gloucester
Guide to Gloucester: Roman Glevum, Henry III and Edward II, the cathedral with the Great East Window and the Harry Potter cloisters, the Docks and…
Blackpool
Guide to Blackpool: Lancashire workers' holidays, Blackpool Tower and the Tower Ballroom, the Pleasure Beach and the Big One, the Illuminations, the…
Bolton
Guide to Bolton: Samuel Crompton and the spinning mule, the mills, the 1644 massacre and the Old Man and Scythe, the town hall and Le Mans Crescent…
Preston
Guide to Preston: the priests' town and the twenty-yearly Guild, Cromwell and the Jacobites, Arkwright, the word teetotal, Dickens and Hard Times…
Slough
Guide to Slough: Queen Victoria's first train journey, the telegraph and the Tawell case, William Herschel and the giant telescope, the Trading…
Newport
Guide to Newport, Wales: the Roman fortress of Caerleon and the Arthurian legend, the coal port and the Chartist Rising, the transporter bridge, the…
Wakefield
Guide to Wakefield: the 1460 battle and the rainbow, the medieval mystery plays, The Hepworth Wakefield, the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, the cathedral…
Warrington
Guide to Warrington: the Mersey ford, Cromwell, wire and beer, the Warrington Academy and Priestley, the town hall and Golden Gates, the museum, the…
Stockport
Guide to Stockport: mills and hats, the railway viaduct, the Hat Works museum, the sandstone air raid shelters, the Market Hall and Staircase House…
Poole
Guide to Poole: the great natural harbour, Newfoundland cod and smugglers, flying boats and the Normandy landings, the quay and the old town, the…
Doncaster
Guide to Doncaster: the Roman fort of Danum, the railway works, the racecourse and the St Leger, St George's Minster, the Mansion House and the…
Telford
Guide to Telford: the 1968 new town, the Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site, Coalbrookdale and Abraham Darby, the 1779 Iron Bridge, the ten museums…
Chelmsford
Guide to Chelmsford: Roman Caesaromagus, Guglielmo Marconi and the world's first radio factory, Nellie Melba and Writtle, the cathedral, the Shire…
Crawley
Guide to Crawley: the coaching town on the Brighton road, the 1947 new town, the High Street and the George Hotel, the museum in The Tree, Tilgate…
Basildon
Guide to Basildon: the plotlands and the 1949 new town, the Mother and Child statue and Brooke House, Wat Tyler Country Park, Langdon Hills and The…
Derry
Guide to Derry (Londonderry): the disputed name, the 1689 siege, Bloody Sunday and peace, the 17th-century walls, the Guildhall and the Peace Bridge…
Lincoln
Guide to Lincoln: Lindum Colonia and the Newport Arch, the cathedral once the tallest building in the world and the Lincoln Imp, the castle with…
Worcester
Guide to Worcester: the cathedral with King John's tomb and Prince Arthur's Chantry, the Battle of 1651 and the Commandery, the Museum of Royal…
Inverness
Guide to Inverness: history from the Picts to Culloden, the castle and the view over the Ness, the Ness Islands, the cathedral, the Victorian Market…
Stirling
Guide to Stirling: the castle with the Great Hall, James V's Royal Palace and the Stirling Heads, the battles of Stirling Bridge and Bannockburn, the…
Oxford
Guide to Oxford: how the university and its colleges work, the Radcliffe Camera and the Bodleian, Christ Church and Harry Potter, the Ashmolean and…
Cambridge
Guide to Cambridge: the history of the university and science, King's College Chapel, Trinity and St John's, the Bridge of Sighs and the Mathematical…
York
Guide to York: Roman and Viking history, York Minster and its stained glass, the medieval walls and bars, the Shambles, the National Railway Museum…
Bath
Guide to Bath: history from Aquae Sulis to Beau Nash, the Roman Baths and the Pump Room, the abbey and Pulteney Bridge, the Circus and the Royal…
Brighton
Guide to Brighton and Hove: the history of sea bathing and the Prince Regent, the Royal Pavilion, the Palace Pier and the i360, The Lanes and North…
Canterbury
Guide to Canterbury: the story of Augustine and Thomas Becket, the cathedral and the Martyrdom, St Augustine's Abbey and St Martin's, the walls and…
Exeter
Guide to Exeter: history from Isca Dumnoniorum to the Blitz, the cathedral with the world's longest Gothic vault and the Exeter Book, the Underground…
Plymouth
Guide to Plymouth: Drake and the Armada, the Mayflower, Cook and Darwin, the Hoe and Smeaton's Tower, the Barbican and the Plymouth Gin distillery…
Southampton
Guide to Southampton: from Clausentum to the medieval walls, the Mayflower, the Titanic and the Spitfire, the SeaCity Museum, Tudor House and the…
Colchester
Guide to Colchester: Camulodunum, Claudius and Boudica, the Norman castle on the temple of Claudius, the Roman walls and the Balkerne Gate, the Roman…
Salisbury
Guide to Salisbury: the birth of the new city in 1220, the Gothic cathedral with its 123-metre spire and Magna Carta, the Cathedral Close, Old Sarum…
Windsor
Guide to Windsor: the oldest and largest occupied castle in the world, the State Apartments and the Dolls' House, St George's Chapel with the tomb of…
St Ives
Guide to St Ives: the artists' town, Bernard Leach and Barbara Hepworth, Tate St Ives, Virginia Woolf and Godrevy lighthouse, Porthmeor and…
Tintagel
Guide to Tintagel: the legend of Arthur's conception, Earl Richard's castle and the early medieval settlement, the 2019 footbridge, the Gallos statue…
Glastonbury
Guide to Glastonbury: the Tor and St Michael's tower, the abbey and Arthur's grave, Chalice Well and the Holy Thorn, New Age culture, the Glastonbury…
Dunster
Guide to Dunster: the Luttrells' castle and the watermill, the Yarn Market of 1609, St George's church, Dunster by Candlelight, the West Somerset…
Bridgwater
Guide to Bridgwater: Admiral Blake, the Monmouth Rebellion and Sedgemoor, the 1785 petition against the slave trade, St Mary's church and the docks…
Aldeburgh
Guide to Aldeburgh: Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears and the June festival, Snape Maltings, The Scallop sculpture, the Moot Hall, Elizabeth Garrett…
Alnmouth
Guide to Alnmouth: the storm of 1806 and Church Hill, the Victorian resort, the beach and the coast path, surroundings including Alnwick, Warkworth…
Stonehenge
Stonehenge: the building phases from 3000 BC, the sarsens and the Welsh bluestones, the Scottish Altar Stone, the solstice alignment, theories on its…
UNESCO sites in the UK
The 35 UNESCO World Heritage Sites of the United Kingdom and its overseas territories: Stonehenge, Bath, Canterbury, Westminster, Edinburgh…