1SOUTH WEST
1. Cornwall
2. Devon —> Plymouth, Exmouth, Exeter
3. Somerset
4. Dorset
5. Wiltshire -> Salisbury, Swindon
6. Gloucestershire -> Gloucester
Bristol
2Glastonbury
music festival in Somerset
the Glastonbury valley: connected to King Arthur
3Portsmouth
Hampshire
maritime heritage
4Stonehenge
Salisbury plain, Somerset
5Salisbury Cathedral
13century
tallest church spike in England
early English Gothic
6Jurassic coast
Devon, Dorset
WHS
154 km
fossils
8Bath
Roman baths
Next to Bristol
SOUTH WEST
9Dartmoor, Exmoor
Devon
nature
10Cornwall
-identity
-fishing, tourism, mining
-Celtic
-2nd homes for the rich
-cornish language
-ports
-pasty
-Eden Project (botanical garden)
-5mil
11SOUTH EAST
1) Kent (the garden of England) -> Canterbury, Dover
2) East Sussex -> Hastings, Brighton
3) West Sussex
4) Surrey
5) Hampshire -> Portsmouth
6) Isle of Wight
7) Berkshire
8) Oxfordshire -> Oxford
9) Buckinghampshire
8.5 mil
12The White cliffs of ...
of Dover
-chalk
-the symbol of England (arriving/departing)
13Canterbury Cathedral
-the final destination of all the pilgrims in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (24, 14century)
-WHS
-seat of archbishop
14Winchester Cathedral
-UK''s 2nd longest nave
-Jane Austen's place of burial
-longest medieval cathedral
15Windsor Castle
Gothic, Victorian, Georgian
Berkshire
16Highclere Castle
Hampshire
1679
Jeeve & Wooslw
Downton Abbey
17Royal Pavilion
Brighton
East Sussex
18Oxford University
first university in England
20Blenheim Palace
Oxfordshire
Buried: John Churchill, Queen Anne
21Isle of Wight
-largest
- resort (Victoria, Osborne House)
22West Midlands: Industrial Revolution
- Iron Bridge (Shropshire) - the birthplace of Industrial Revolution 1781 WHS
- the Black Country
23Wolverhampton
Staffordshire
manufacturing
mining
24Stoke-on-Trent
Staffordshire
Ceramics, pottery
25WEST MIDLANDS
(the kingdom of Mercia)
1) Shropshire -> Shrewsbury
2) Herefordshire -> Herefordshire
3) Worcestershire
4) Warwickshire -> Warwick, Coventry
5) Stradforshire
6) West Midlands -> Birmingham
7) Staffordshire -> Stoke-on-Trent
5,6mil
26Stratford-upon-Avon
West Midlands
Shakespeare's birthplace
27Warwick Castle
Warwickshire, WM
the living castle
29cathedral (remains, bombed by air raids in 194
)
19 century: silk, clocks, bicycles, motor cars
trade in Middle Ages
30Birmingham
brummies
WM, WM
manufacture
JRR Tolkien
St. Martins church, the Self ridges
birthplace of Cadbury chocolate
31EAST MIDLANDS
1) Derbyshire
2)Nottinghamshire -> Nottingham
3)Leicestershire -> Leicester
4)Rutland
5)Northamptonshire -> Northampton
6)Lincolnshire -> Lincoln
Robin Hood: Major Oak (Sherwood forest)
fox-hunting
fabrics, textiles
dr. Martens
"Lady Chatterley's lover" (c) D. H. Lawrence
32East of England
1)Cambridgeshire -> Cambridge
2)Norfolk -> Norwich
3)Suffolk -> Suffolk
4)Essex -> Colchester
5)Hertfordshire -> St. Albans
6)Bedfordshire
33Sandringham House
Norfolk
Royal residence
George VI died here
34Norwich Cathedral
Norfolk
11century
Norman, Gothic
35Northern England
1) Yorkshire and the Humber
2) North West
3) North East
Manchester(oasis), Liverpool(Beatles), Lancashire
leeds, York, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Kingston-upon-Hull
36Newcastle upon Tyne
cluster of bridges
university, students, night life
37Durham Cathedral
Romanesque
WHS
shrines of Bede and some others
library
38Yorkshire
Leeds, Sheffield, Bradford, Doncaster, Ripon, Watefileld, Kingston-upon-Hull
the angel of the north - gateshead, Tyne and Wear
York (capital), Whitby(beaches, Abbey, Count Dracula)< captain cook, scarborough(oldest seaside resort), Bronte sisters, Yorkminster=notre dame
39The lake district
the lake poets: William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey
Beatrix Potter
John Rudkin
Northern England
40SCOTLAND
17
Alba
parliament
Edinborough, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dundee, Thurso (Lowlands)
pipes, Robert Burns, haggis, fish, whisky
41Skara Brae
neolithic
Scotland
42Holyroodhouse Palace
Scotland highlands
43Balmoral castle
Scotland
44Edinburgh Castle
scotland
45Stirling castle
scotland
46WALES (CYMRU)
Cardiff, Swansea, Newport, Snowdonia, Snowdon(!
47Caernarfon Castle
Gwynedd
Edward 1