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Tables of Contents for Lonely Planet Britain
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
The Authors
11
4
This Book
15
1
Foreword
16
3
Introduction
19
1
Facts For The Visitor
20
53
Highlights
20
5
Suggested ltineraries
25
1
Planning
25
2
Responsible Tourism
27
1
Tourist Offices
28
1
Visas & Documents
29
2
Embassies & Consulates
31
2
Customs
33
1
Money
33
4
Post & Communications
37
2
Internet Resources
39
1
Books
40
2
Films
42
1
Newspapers & Magazines
42
1
Radio & TV
43
1
Video Systems
44
1
Photography & Video
44
1
Time
45
1
Electricity
45
1
Weights & Measures
45
1
Laundry
45
1
Toilets
45
1
Health
46
3
Women Travellers
49
1
Gay & Lesbian Travellers
50
1
Disabled Travellers
50
1
Senior Travellers
51
1
Travel with Children
51
1
Useful Organisations
51
2
Dangers & Annoyances
53
2
Emergencies
55
1
Legal Matters
55
1
Business Hours
55
1
Public Holidays & Special Events
55
1
Courses
56
1
Work
57
1
Accommodation
58
4
Food
62
3
Drinks
65
2
Entertainment
67
1
Spectator Sports
68
2
Shopping
70
3
Activities
73
20
Walking
73
1
Access
73
1
Long-Distance Walks
74
6
Walking Tours
80
1
Cycling
80
1
Information
81
1
Where to Cycle
82
2
Some Suggested Cycling Routes
84
2
Golf
85
1
Information
86
1
Costs
86
1
Surfing & Swimming
86
1
Fishing
87
1
Rules & Regulations
87
1
Horse Riding & Pony Trekking
88
1
Canal & Waterway Travel
88
1
History
88
1
The Waterways
89
1
Information
90
1
Travelling the Waterways
90
1
Skiing
90
1
Information
90
1
Costs
91
1
Resorts
91
2
Steam Railways
92
1
Getting There & Away
93
12
Air
93
7
Land
100
1
Sea
101
4
Getting Around
105
21
Air
105
1
Bus
105
3
Train
108
8
Car & Motorcycle
116
6
Bicycle
122
1
Hitching
122
1
Walking
122
1
Boat
122
1
Local Transport
122
1
Organised Tours
122
4
Facts About England
126
32
History
126
11
Geography
137
1
Climate
138
1
Ecology & Environment
138
2
Flora' & Fauna
140
2
Government & Politics
142
1
Economy
143
1
Population & People
144
1
Education
144
1
Arts
144
5
Architecture
149
6
Society & Conduct
155
1
Religion
156
1
Language
156
2
London
158
79
History
158
1
Orientation
159
1
Information
160
23
Central London
183
21
North London
204
1
East London
205
1
South London
206
2
West London
208
1
Organised Tours
209
1
Places to Stay
209
7
Places to Eat
216
9
Entertainment
225
3
Shopping
228
3
Getting There & Away
231
1
Getting Around
232
5
South-Eastern England
237
66
Berkshire
240
1
Windsor & Eton
240
6
Surrey
245
1
Farnham
246
1
Waverley Abbey
247
1
Box Hill
247
1
Kent
248
1
Canterbury
248
6
Margate
254
1
Broadstairs
254
1
Sandwich
255
1
Around Sandwich
256
1
Dover
256
4
Romney Marsh & Around
260
1
Hever
260
1
Ightham Mote
260
1
Leeds Castle
261
1
East Sussex
261
1
Rye
261
3
Hastings
264
1
Battle
264
1
Pevensey Castle
265
1
Eastbourne
265
3
Beachy Head
268
1
The Long Man of Wilmington
268
1
Brighton
268
6
West Sussex
274
1
Chichester
274
2
Around Chichester
276
1
Arundel
277
1
Hampshire
277
1
Winchester
277
5
Portsmouth
282
5
New Forest
287
3
Isle of Wight
289
1
Cowes & Osborne House
290
1
Ryde
290
1
Ventnor
291
1
South Coast
291
1
West Wight
291
1
Essex
292
1
Southend-on-Sea
292
4
Colchester
296
1
Dedham Vale
297
1
Saffron Walden
297
1
Audley End House
298
1
Hertfordshire
298
1
St Albans
298
3
Hatfield House
301
1
Shaw's Corner
301
1
Buckinghamshire
301
1
Aylesbury
302
1
Around Aylesbury
302
1
Stowe Landscape Gardens
302
1
Wendover Woods
302
1
South-Western England
303
110
Dorset
307
1
Bournemouth & Poole
307
2
Around Bournemouth & Poole
309
1
South-Eastern Dorset
310
2
Dorchester
312
1
Around Dorchester
313
1
Weymouth
314
3
Weymouth to Lyme Regis
317
1
Lyme Regis
318
1
Around Lyme Regis
319
1
Sherborne
320
1
Shaftesbury
321
1
Wiltshire
321
1
Salisbury
321
6
Around Salisbury
327
1
Stonehenge
328
2
Around Stonehenge
330
1
Stourhead
330
1
Longleat
331
1
Bradford-on-Avon
331
2
Chippenham & Around
333
1
Devizes
334
1
Avebury
335
2
Around Avebury
337
1
Marlborough
338
1
Malmesbury
338
1
Swindon
339
16
Bristol
339
8
Bath
347
8
Around Bath
355
1
Somerset
355
1
Wells
356
2
Mendip Hills
358
2
Glastonbury
360
3
Quantock Hills
363
1
Taunton
364
1
Montacute House
364
3
Exmoor National Park
365
2
Dulverton
367
1
Dunster
368
1
Minehead
368
1
Exford
369
1
Porlock
369
1
Lynton & Lynmouth
369
2
Devon
370
1
Exeter
371
5
Around Exeter
376
1
South Devon Coast
376
3
Plymouth
379
4
Around Plymouth
383
1
Northern Devon
383
6
Dartmoor National Park
385
4
Princetown
389
1
Postbridge
389
1
Buckfastleigh
390
1
Widecombe-in-the-Moor
390
1
Moretonhampstead & Steps Bridge
391
1
Chagford
391
1
Castle Drogo
391
1
Okehampton
391
1
Lydford
392
1
Tavistock
393
1
Cornwall
393
1
South-Eastern Cornwall
394
3
Truro
397
1
Roseland Peninsula
397
1
South-Western Cornwall
398
1
Penzance
399
2
Western Cornwall
401
3
St Ives
404
2
Newquay
406
2
Northern Cornwall
408
2
Isles of Scilly
410
3
Central England
413
107
Oxfordshire
415
1
Oxford
416
8
Woodstock & Blenheim Palace
424
1
Oxfordshire Cotswolds
425
1
South of Oxford
425
1
Henley-on-Thames
426
1
Around Henley-on-Thames
427
1
Gloucestershire & the Cotswolds
427
1
Northern Cotswolds
428
6
Southern Cotswolds
434
2
Cirencester
436
1
Gloucester
437
4
Cheltenham
441
4
Tewkesbury
445
1
The Forest of Dean
446
1
Newent
446
1
Herefordshire & Worcestershire
447
1
Hereford
447
2
Around Hereford
449
1
Ross-on-Wye
450
1
Around Ross-on-Wye
450
1
Worcester
451
3
Around Worcester
454
1
Great Malvern
455
1
Vale of Evesham
456
1
Warwickshire & Coventry
457
1
Coventry
457
2
Warwick
459
2
Around Warwick
461
1
Kenilworth
462
1
Stratford-upon-Avon
462
5
Around Stratford-upon-Avon
467
6
Birmingham
468
5
Around Birmingham
473
1
Northamptonshire
474
1
Northampton
474
1
Around Northampton
475
1
Bedfordshire
476
1
Bedford
476
2
Woburn Abbey & Safari Park
478
1
Whipsnade
478
1
Leicestershire & Rutland
478
1
Leicester
478
4
Around Leicester
482
1
Rutland
483
1
Shropshire
483
1
Shrewsbury
484
4
Around Shrewsbury
488
1
Ironbridge Gorge
489
3
Bridgnorth
492
1
Wenlock Edge
492
1
Much Wenlock
492
1
The Long Mynd & Church Stretton
493
1
Bishop's Castle
493
1
Clun
493
1
Ludlow
494
1
Stokesay Castle
495
1
Staffordshire
496
1
Lichfield
496
1
Stoke-on-Trent
497
2
Around Stoke-on-Trent
499
1
Derbyshire
499
1
Derby
499
1
Around Derby
500
1
Chesterfield
501
1
Around Chesterfield
501
4
Peak District
501
4
Bakewell
505
1
Around Bakewell
506
1
Eyam
507
1
Castleton
508
2
Edale
510
1
Hayfield
510
1
Buxton
510
2
Around Buxton
512
1
Matlock & Matlock Bath
513
1
Around Matlock
513
1
Nottinghamshire
513
1
Nottingham
513
5
Around Nottingham
518
2
Eastern England
520
46
Suffolk
522
1
Ipswich
522
2
Stour Valley
524
1
Lavenham
525
1
Bury St Edmunds
525
2
Suffolk Coast
527
2
Norfolk
528
1
Norwich
529
4
Around Norwich
533
1
Norfolk Broads
533
1
Norfolk Coast
534
2
King's Lynn
536
3
Cambridgeshire
539
1
Cambridge
539
14
Around Cambridge
553
1
Ely
554
2
Peterborough
556
1
Lincolnshire
557
1
Lincoln
557
5
Grantham
562
1
Stamford
563
1
Boston
564
1
Skegness
564
2
North-Western England
566
34
Manchester
566
11
Around Manchester
577
1
Cheshire
578
1
Chester
578
6
Around Chester
584
8
Liverpool
584
8
Around Liverpool
592
2
Isle of Man
593
1
Douglas
594
2
Lancashire
596
1
Lancaster
596
1
Blackpool
597
3
Yorkshire
600
64
West Yorkshire
601
2
Leeds
603
5
Harewood House
608
1
Bradford
608
1
Saltaire
609
1
Haworth
610
2
Hebben Bridge & Heptonstall
612
1
Sheffield & Around
613
1
Sheffield
613
4
Around Sheffield
617
1
East Riding of Yorkshire
617
1
Hull (Kingston-upon-Hull)
618
1
Beverley
619
2
North Yorkshire
620
1
York
621
12
Castle Howard
633
1
Thirsk
634
3
North York Moors National Park
634
3
Sutton Bank
637
1
Helmsley
637
1
Around Helmsley
638
1
Pickering
639
1
North Yorkshire Moors Railway
639
1
Danby
640
1
Staithes
641
1
Whitby
641
6
Cook Country Walk
647
1
Robin Hood's Bay
647
1
Scarborough
647
7
Yorkshire Dales National Park
652
2
Leeds-Settle-Carlisle Line
654
1
Skipton
655
1
Grassington
655
1
Settle & Around
655
1
Malham
656
1
Kirkby Lonsdale
656
1
Kirkby Stephen
656
1
Harrogate
657
3
Richmond
660
2
Fountains Abbey & Studley Royal Water Garden
662
2
Cumbria
664
24
Carlisle
665
3
Cockermouth
668
2
Kendal
670
1
Around Kendal
671
3
Lake District National Park
672
2
Windermere & Bowness
674
4
Ambleside
678
1
Grasmere & Wordsworth Country
679
1
Around Grasmere
680
1
Coniston
681
1
Keswick
682
4
Around Keswick
686
1
Cumbrian Coast Line
686
1
Ulverston
686
2
North-Eastern England
688
28
County Durham
690
1
Durham
690
4
Beamish Open-Air Museum
694
1
Barnard Castle
695
1
Around Barnard Castle
695
7
Newcastle upon Tyne
696
5
Northumberland Coast
701
1
Warkworth
702
1
Alnwick
702
1
Farne Islands
703
1
Bamburgh
703
1
Holy Island (Lindisfarne)
704
1
Berwick-upon-Tweed
704
3
Hadrian's Wall
706
1
Corbridge
707
1
Hexham
708
1
Hexham to Haltwhistle
709
1
Haltwhistle
710
1
Brampton
711
2
Northumberland National Park
711
2
Bellingham
713
1
Rothbury
713
3
Facts About Scotland
716
20
History
716
8
Geography & Geology
724
1
Climate
725
1
Ecology & Environment
725
1
Flora & Fauna
726
1
Government & Politics
727
1
Economy
728
1
Population & People
729
1
Education
729
1
Science & Philosophy
730
1
Arts
730
3
Society & Conduct
733
2
Religion
735
1
Language
735
1
Edinburgh
736
29
History
736
4
Information
740
1
Edinburgh Castle
741
1
Royal Mile
742
4
Palace of Holyroodhouse & Holyrood Abbey
746
1
Holyrood Park
747
1
Dynamic Earth
747
1
South of the Royal Mile
747
1
Calton Hill & Around
748
1
New Town
749
1
West End
750
1
North of New Town
751
1
Organised Tours
751
1
Places to Stay
751
3
Places to Eat
754
4
Entertainment
758
2
Getting There & Away
760
1
Getting Around
761
1
Greater Edinburgh
761
1
North & North-West
761
3
West & South
764
1
Southern Scotland
765
47
Scottish Borders
768
1
Coldstream
769
1
Kelso
770
2
Around Kelso
772
1
Melrose
772
1
Around Melrose
773
1
Galashiels
774
1
Selkirk
774
1
Jedburgh
774
2
Around Peebles
776
1
Hermitage Castle
776
18
Glasgow
776
18
Around Glasgow
794
1
Paisley
794
1
Firth of Clyde
794
1
Greenock
795
1
Gourock
795
1
Lanarkshire
795
1
Blantyre
795
1
Lanark & New Lanark
795
2
Ayrshire
796
1
North Ayrshire
797
1
Isle of Arran
797
3
South Ayrshire
800
2
Around Ayr
802
2
Dumfries & Galloway
804
1
Dumfries
804
2
Around Dumfries
806
1
New Galloway & Around
806
1
Castle Douglas & Around
806
1
Kirkcudbright
807
1
Gatehouse of Fleet
808
1
Machars Peninsula
809
1
Wigtown
809
1
Whithorn
809
1
Isle of Whithorn
809
1
Portpatrick
809
1
Stranraer & Cairnryan
810
1
Around Stranraer
811
1
Central Scotland
812
61
Argyll & Bute
816
1
Isle of Bute
817
1
Loch Lomond
818
1
Inveraray
819
1
Kilmartin Glen
820
1
Kintyre
820
1
Isle of Islay
821
2
Isle of Jura
823
1
Isle of Colonsay
823
1
Oban & Around
824
2
Isle of Mull
826
3
Around Mull
829
1
Isle of Coll
829
1
Isle of Tiree
829
1
Stirling & Around
830
1
Stirling
830
5
Around Stirling
835
1
The Trossachs
836
1
North Central Region
837
1
Fife
838
1
Western Fife
838
1
South Coast
839
1
Central Fife
840
1
St Andrews
841
5
Around St Andrews
846
1
East Neuk
847
1
Perthshire & Kinross
848
1
Kinross & Loch Leven
848
1
Perth
849
2
Strathearn
851
1
Perth to Aviemore
852
2
West Perthshire
854
1
Dundee & Angus
854
1
Dundee
855
5
Glamis Castle
860
1
Arbroath
860
1
Aberdeenshire & Moray
861
1
Aberdeen
861
6
Deeside & Donside
867
2
Inland Aberdeenshire & Moray
869
1
Grampian Coast
870
3
Highlands & Northern Islands
873
77
The Cairngorms
878
1
Aviemore
879
4
Grantown-on-Spey
883
1
Kingussie
883
1
Kingussie to Fort William
884
1
The Great Glen
885
1
Fort William & Around
885
4
Fort William to Glen Coe
889
1
Glen Coe
889
2
Fort William to Fort Augustus
891
1
Fort Augustus
891
1
Loch Ness
892
2
Inverness
894
3
Around Inverness
897
2
East Coast
899
1
Dingwall to Bonar Bridge
899
1
Dornoch
900
1
Dunrobin Castle
900
1
Brora & Helmsdale
900
1
Helmsdale to Latheron
901
1
Celtic Sites
901
1
Wick
902
1
John o'Groats
903
1
Dunnet Head
903
1
North & West Coast
903
1
Thurso & Scrabster
904
2
Thurso to Durness
906
1
Durness
906
1
Durness to Ullapool
907
1
Ullapool
908
1
Ullapool to Kyle of Lochalsh
909
1
Plockton
910
1
Kyle of Lochalsh
910
1
Kyle of Lochalsh to the Great Glen
911
1
Road to the Isles
911
1
Mallaig
911
2
The Interiqr
913
1
Isle of Skye
913
1
Portree (Port Righ)
913
2
Kyleakin (Caol Acain)
915
1
Kylerhea (Caol Reithe)
915
1
Armadale (Armadal)
915
1
Broadford (An T-Ath Leathann)
915
1
The Cuillin Hills & Minginish Peninsula
915
1
North-West Skye
916
1
Trotternish Peninsula
916
1
Uig (Uige)
917
1
Isle of Raasay
917
4
Outer Hebrides
917
4
Lewis (Leodhais)
921
2
Harris (Na Hearadh)
923
2
North Uist (Uibhist A Tuath)
925
1
Benbecula (Beinn Na Faoghla)
925
1
South Uist (Uibhist A Deas)
926
1
Barra (Barraigh)
926
3
Orkney Islands
927
2
Kirkwall
929
3
West & North Mainland
932
2
East Mainland, Burray & South Ronaldsay
934
2
Hoy
936
1
Northern Islands
937
5
Shetland Islands
940
2
Lerwick
942
3
Around Lerwick
945
1
South Mainland
946
1
North Mainland
946
1
Yell & Unst
946
1
Other Islands
947
3
Facts About Wales
950
12
History
950
4
Geography
954
1
Climate
955
1
Ecology & Environment
955
1
Flora & Fauna
955
1
Government & Politics
956
1
Economy
956
1
Population & People
957
1
Education
957
1
Arts
958
2
Society & Conduct
960
1
Religion
960
1
Language
961
1
Cardiff (Caerdydd)
962
9
History
962
1
Orientation
963
1
Information
963
1
Cardiff Castle
963
2
National Museum of Wales
965
1
St John's Church
965
1
Cardiff Bay
965
1
Llandaff Cathedral
965
1
Organised Tours
966
1
Places to Stay
966
1
Places to Eat
967
1
Entertainment
967
2
Getting There & Away
969
1
Getting Around
969
2
South Wales
971
28
South-Eastern Wales
971
1
Around Cardiff
972
2
Wye Valley
974
1
Chepstow
975
2
Swansea (Abertawe)
977
4
Gower Peninsula
981
1
Carmarthen (Caerfyrddin)
982
1
Laugharne
983
4
Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
983
4
Tenby (Dinbych Y Pysgod)
987
1
Around Tenby
988
1
Pembroke
989
1
Around Pembroke
990
1
Haverfordwest (Hwlffordd)
991
1
St Brides Bay (Bae Sain Ffraid)
991
1
St David's (Ty-Ddewi)
992
2
St David's To Fishguard
994
1
Fishguard (Abergwaun)
995
2
Newport (Trefdraeth)
997
1
Around Newport
997
2
Central Wales
999
22
Brecon Beacons National Park
999
5
Brecon (Aberhonddu)
1004
3
Brecon to Abergavenny
1007
1
Abergavenny (Y Fenni)
1008
1
Around Abergavenny
1009
1
Abergavenny to Hay-on-Wye
1009
1
Hay-on-Wye
1010
3
Powys
1012
1
Llanwrtyd Wells
1013
1
Llandrindod Wells
1013
1
Knighton
1014
1
Welshpool
1014
1
Machynlleth
1014
2
Ceredigion
1016
1
Cardigan (Aberteifi)
1016
1
Aberystwyth
1017
4
North Wales
1021
31
North-Eastern Wales
1022
1
Wrexham
1022
1
Llangollen
1022
8
Snowdonia National Park
1026
4
Betws-y-Coed
1030
2
Capel Curig
1032
1
Llanberis
1032
2
Beddgelett
1034
1
Blaenau Ffestiniog
1035
1
Harlech
1036
1
Barmouth
1036
1
Tywyn
1037
1
Dolgellau
1037
1
Bala
1038
1
North-Western Wales
1039
1
Llandudno
1039
3
Conwy
1042
2
Bangor
1044
1
Around Bangor
1045
1
Caernarfon
1045
1
Anglesey (Ynys Mon)
1046
2
Llyn Peninsula
1048
1
Porthmadog
1049
1
Portmeirion
1050
2
The Channel Islands
1052
6
Jersey
1053
1
Guernsey
1054
1
Herm
1055
1
Alderney
1056
1
Sark
1056
2
Language
1058
3
Glossary
1061
4
Glossary of Religious Architecture
1065
2
Acknowledgments
1067
6
Index
1073