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Ivinghoe Beacon, Chiltern Hills, England
Ivinghoe Beacon, Chiltern Hills, England
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Discover Britain takes you on a wonderful journey to uncover all that is fascinating about this island fascinating nation - a nation of many countries, of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, stitched together to form the delightful kaleidoscope called Britain. There's so much to see and so much to write about, I will not ever be done with describing Britain. But what I have written so far, in this, I hope will provide you a glimpse of all the Britain offers.

Britain, officially the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, is a nation on the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It comprises two main parts: England, Scotland and Wales, on the island of Great Britain, and Northern Ireland, occupying the northern part of the island of Ireland. Britain is surrounded by the North Sea, the English Channel, the Irish Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean. It shares a land border with the Republic of Ireland.

Guide to Britain Hotels

Here's a list of hotels in Britain that you can book online, listed by city, with full description, star rating, address, location map, evaluation, and prices as offered by different booking sites. This helps you to make your room booking with the site that offers the best price.


Wastwater in the Lake District, England
Wastwater in the Lake District, England
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Countries of the United Kingdom

  1. England
  2. Wales
  3. Scotland
  4. Northern Ireland

Regions of England

  1. South East England
  2. South West England
  3. East of England
  4. West Midlands
  5. East Midlands
  6. Yorkshire and the Humber
  7. North West England
  8. North East England

Counties of England

  1. Bedfordshire
  2. Berkshire
  3. Buckinghamshire
  4. Cambridgeshire
  5. Cheshire
  6. Cornwall
  7. County Durham
  8. Cumbria
  9. Derbyshire
  10. Devon
  11. Dorset
  12. East Riding of Yorkshire
  13. East Sussex
  14. Essex
  15. Gloucestershire
  16. Greater Manchester
  17. Hampshire
  18. Herefordshire
  19. Hertfordshire
  20. Isle of Wight
  21. Kent
  22. Lancashire
  23. Leicestershire
  24. Lincolnshire
  25. Merseyside
  26. Norfolk
  27. North Yorkshire (part of)
  28. Northamptonshire
  29. Northumberland
  30. Nottinghamshire
  31. Oxfordshire
  32. Rutland
  33. Shropshire
  34. Somerset
  35. South Yorkshire
  36. Staffordshire
  37. Suffolk
  38. Surrey
  39. Tyne and Wear
  40. Warwickshire
  41. West Midlands County
  42. West Sussex
  43. West Yorkshire
  44. Wiltshire
  45. Worcestershire

Tourist Destinations in Britain

  1. Isles of Scilly
  2. Land's End
  3. Windsor Castle
  4. St Michael's Mount

More on Britain

Britain covers an area of 243,610 sq km (94,060 sq mi). Its population, as of 2010 estimate, stands at 62 million people. The de facto capital of Britain is London, which is also the biggest city in the country. Britain enjoys the 6th biggest economy by nominal GDP as well as by purchasing power parity. It was the first industrialised country in the world with the biggest colonial empire in the 19th and 20th century, but its power diminished following two world wars and economic decline in the latter half of the 20th century.


Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales
Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales
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The United Kingdom was created in 1603 though the Union of the Crowns of England, Ireland and Scotland. In 1707, the United Kingdom of Great Britain came into being with the political union of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland. In 1800, the Act of Union merged the Kingdom of Ireland to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Dispute in Ireland led to the partition of the island in 1921, the creation of the Irish Free State in 1922, which resulted in the change in the name of the nation to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Britain is a member of the European Union and has a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council. It is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, the G8, G20, NATO, OECD and the World Trade Organization.


Land's End, on the westernmost tip of Cornwall, England
Land's End, on the westernmost tip of Cornwall, England
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Britain is composed of four "countries" namely England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Each has its own system of administrative division that are older than the United Kingdom itself. England accounts for just over half of the total land area of Britain, covering 130,395 sq km (50,350 sq mi). Scotland occupies 78,772 sq km (30,410 sq mi), including nearly eight hundred islands, many of which are desolate and inhabited. Wales accounts for less than a tenth of Britain, or 20,758 sq km (8,010 sq mi) while Northern Ireland accounts for 14,160 sq km (5,470 sq mi).

Much of Britain comsists of lowland terrain. Even the tallest mountain, Ben Nevis in Scotland, is only 1,343 meters (4,406 ft6) above sea level. The tallest mountin in England is Scafell Pike at 978 m (3,209 ft).

The structure of local government in England is not uniform and quite complex. The country is divided into nine regions and 48 ceremonial coounties. Scotland is divided into 32 council area which differ widely in terms of size and population. Northern Ireland, since 1973, comprises 26 district councils while Wales consists of 22 unitary authorities.


Water Street on Castle Combe, one of the prettiest villages in England
Water Street on Castle Combe, one of the prettiest villages in England
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Planning your visit to Britain

Britain has not fully implemented the Schengen Agreement, meaning visitors from the European Union, except Ireland, needs to bring a passport. However they enjoy residency and working rights, as are the nationals of Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. Nationals of American Samoa, Andorra, Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Bonaire, Botswana, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Curaçao, Dominica, East Timor, El Salvador, Federated States of Micronesia, French Guiana, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guatemala, Honduras, Hong Kong, Israel, Kiribati, Lesotho, Macau, Malaysia, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mauritius, Mexico, Monaco, Namibia, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niue, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Reunion, Saba, South Korea, St Eustatius, St Kitts & Nevis, St Lucia, St Maarten, St Vincent & The Grenadines, San Marino, Singapore, Swaziland, Tahiti and her Islands, Taiwan, Tonga, Trinidad & Tobago, Turks and Caicos, Tuvalu, Uruguay, United States, US Virgin Islands, Vanuatu, Vatican City and Venezuela only need their passport for visits of up to 6 months.

Britain is one of the major tourist destination in the world. Most tourists to the country arrives at any of London's five airports. A smaller number arrives at Manchester International Airport. London Heathrow Airport is the busiest international airport in the world. London Gatwick and London Stanstead are the two other major airports receiving international flights. London Luton airport handles mostly budget flights while London City Airport handles mostly business passengers.


Lincoln Cathedral, East Midlands
Lincoln Cathedral, East Midlands
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Travelers from continental Europe can travel by high-speed Eurostar trains from Paris, Lille and Brussels to London, arriving at the St Pancras International railway station. It only takes two hours fifteen minutes to reach London from Paris by train. Shuttle trains also carry cars through the Channel Tunnel from Calais, France, to Folkestone, England. The cost is £49 one way.

There are a number of ferry routes between Britain and continental Europe. The most popular passenger port is Dover, which has regular services from Zeebrugge in Belgium and Calais in France. Ferries from Amsterdam go to Newcastle, England while those from Esbjerg, Denmark, goes to Harwich, England.


View from Skye in Scotland
View from Skye in Scotland
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To go to Scotland, you can take flights from London or Manchester to its main cities such as Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Inverness. The main airport for Wales is the Cardiff International Airport, located to the south of Cardiff. You can also drive or take the train from London.

There are flights to Belfast in Northern Ireland. The city has two main airports the George Best Belfast City Airport, which is closer to the city center, and the Belfast International Airport, which is further away. You can also take ferries across the Irish Sea from Larne in Great Britain to Belfast.

Recommended Travel Guidebook

My favorite travel guidebook for further reading in preparation of your trip is the Great Britain Eyewitness Guide, because it follows a format that I find useful to users, not to mention I have also contributed to some of the titles in the Eyewitness series of guidebooks.




Castle Stalker, Apin, Scotland
Castle Stalker, Apin, Scotland
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Crazywell Cross, Dartmoor, England
Crazywell Cross, Dartmoor, England
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Fissured rock, Isle of Man
Fissured rock, Isle of Man
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Pembroke Castle, Wales
Pembroke Castle, Wales
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Granite boulders on North Tor in Northern Ireland
Granite boulders on North Tor in Northern Ireland
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Discover the Cities, Towns and Villages of Britain

Major cities are in bold. Before 1888, to qualify for city status, a town in England must have an Anglican cathedral. After 1888, this is no longer a requirement.

England
  1. LONDON - capital
  2. Abingdon
  3. Accrington
  4. Alcester
  5. Aldeburgh
  6. Aldershot
  7. Alnmouth
  8. Alnwick
  9. Altrincham
  10. Amersham
  11. Arundel
  12. Ascot
  13. Ashbourne
  14. Ashby-de-la-Zouch
  15. Ashton-under-Lyne
  16. Axminster
  17. Aylesbury
  18. Bakewell
  19. Baldock
  20. Banbury
  21. Barnsley
  22. Barnstaple
  23. Barrow-in-Furness
  24. Basildon
  25. Basingstoke
  26. Bath
  27. Battle
  28. Beaconsfield
  29. Bedford
  30. Beer
  31. Belper
  32. Berwick-upon-Tweed
  33. Beverley
  34. Bewdley
  35. Bexhill-on-Sea
  36. Bicester
  37. Bideford
  38. Birkenhead
  39. Birmingham
  40. Bishop Auckland
  41. Blackburn
  42. Blackpool
  43. Bodmin
  44. Bognor Regis
  45. Bolton
  46. Bootle
  47. Boston
  48. Bournemouth
  49. Bourton-on-the-Water
  50. Bovey Tracey
  51. Brackley
  52. Bradford
  53. Bradford on Avon
  54. Braintree
  55. Brentwood
  56. Bridgnorth
  57. Bridgwater
  58. Bridlington
  59. Bridport
  60. Brighton & Hove
  61. Bristol
  62. Broadway
  63. Bromsgrove
  64. Bromyard
  65. Buckden
  66. Buckingham
  67. Bude
  68. Burgess Hill
  69. Burnham-on-Crouch
  70. Burnley
  71. Burton upon Trent
  72. Burwell
  73. Bury St Edmunds
  74. Buxton
  75. Callington
  76. Cambridge
  77. Cannock
  78. Canterbury
  79. Carlisle
  80. Chagford
  81. Chelmsford
  82. Cheltenham
  83. Chester
  84. Chesterfield
  85. Chichester
  86. Chinnor
  87. Chippenham
  88. Chipping Campden
  89. Chipping Norton
  90. Chipping Sodbury
  91. Chorley
  92. Christchurch
  93. Cirencester
  94. Clacton-on-Sea
  95. Cleethorpes
  96. Coalville
  97. Colchester
  98. Coleford
  99. Colne
  100. Congleton
  101. Corby
  102. Coventry
  103. Crawley
  104. Crediton
  105. Crewe
  106. Cromer
  107. Crowborough
  108. Darlington
  109. Dartmouth
  110. Darwen
  111. Dawley
  112. Derby
  113. Didcot
  114. Diss
  115. Doncaster
  116. Dorchester
  117. Dorking
  118. Driffield
  119. Droitwich Spa
  120. Dudley
  121. Dunstable
  122. Durham
  123. Dursley
  124. East Grinstead
  125. Eastbourne
  126. Eastleigh
  127. Ellesmere Port
  128. Ely
  129. Epping
  130. Eton
  131. Evesham
  132. Exeter
  133. Falmouth
  134. Farnborough
  135. Farnham
  136. Felixstowe
  137. Filton
  138. Folkestone
  139. Fowey
  140. Freshwater
  141. Frinton-on-Sea
  142. Gainsborough
  143. Gateshead
  144. Glastonbury
  145. Glossop
  146. Gloucester
  147. Godalming
  148. Goole
  149. Gosport
  150. Grantham
  151. Great Yarmouth
  152. Grimsby
  153. Guildford
  154. Hailsham
  155. Hale
  156. Harpenden
  157. Harrogate
  158. Hartfield
  159. Hartlepool
  160. Harwich
  161. Hastings
  162. Hatfield
  163. Hawes
  164. Hayle
  165. Haywards Heath
  166. Heathfield
  167. Hedon
  168. Helston
  169. Hemel Hempstead
  170. Henley-in-Arden
  171. Henley-on-Thames
  172. Hereford
  173. Hertford
  174. Hexham
  175. High Wycombe
  176. Hinckley
  177. Hitchin
  178. Hornsea
  179. Horsham
  180. Howden
  181. Huntingdon
  182. Ipswich
  183. Kendal
  184. Kenilworth
  185. Kettering
  186. Kidderminster
  187. King's Lynn
  188. Kingston upon Hull
  189. Knaresborough
  190. Knebworth
  191. Kidlington
  192. Kington
  193. Knowsley
  194. Lancaster
  195. Langport
  196. Launceston
  197. Lechlade
  198. Ledbury
  199. Leeds
  200. Leek
  201. Leicester
  202. Leominster
  203. Letchworth Garden City
  204. Lewes
  205. Leyburn
  206. Leyland
  207. Lichfield
  208. Lincoln
  209. Liskeard
  210. Littleborough
  211. Littlehampton
  212. Liverpool
  213. Looe
  214. Lostwithiel
  215. Louth
  216. Loughborough
  217. Lowestoft
  218. Ludlow
  219. Luton
  220. Lyme Regis
  221. Lymington
  222. Macclesfield
  223. Madeley
  224. Maidenhead
  225. Maidstone
  226. Maldon
  227. Malmesbury
  228. Malvern
  229. Manchester
  230. Mansfield
  231. Marazion
  232. March
  233. Market Drayton
  234. Market Harborough
  235. Market Rasen
  236. Market Weighton
  237. Marlborough
  238. Marlow
  239. Matlock
  240. Melksham
  241. Melton Mowbray
  242. Middlesbrough
  243. Minchinhampton
  244. Minehead
  245. Morpeth
  246. Nailsworth
  247. Newark-on-Trent
  248. Newbury
  249. Newcastle-under-Lyme
  250. Newcastle upon Tyne
  251. Newhaven
  252. Newlyn
  253. Newmarket
  254. Newport, Isle of Wight
  255. Newport, Shropshire
  256. Newquay
  257. Northallerton
  258. Northampton
  259. Northwich
  260. Norwich
  261. Nottingham
  262. Nuneaton
  263. Oakham
  264. Oldham
  265. Oundle
  266. Oswestry
  267. Oxford
  268. Padstow
  269. Penrith
  270. Penzance
  271. Peterborough
  272. Plymouth
  273. Pocklington
  274. Poole
  275. Portsmouth
  276. Preston
  277. Princes Risborough
  278. Redditch
  279. Redruth
  280. Richmond
  281. Ripon
  282. Rochdale
  283. Rochester
  284. Romsey
  285. Ross-on-Wye
  286. Rotherham
  287. Royal Leamington Spa
  288. Royal Tunbridge Wells
  289. Royston
  290. Rugby
  291. Runcorn
  292. Ryde
  293. Rye
  294. Saffron Walden
  295. Sale
  296. Salford
  297. Salisbury
  298. Saltash
  299. Sandwich
  300. Sawtry
  301. Scarborough
  302. Scunthorpe
  303. Seahouses
  304. Selby
  305. Sennen
  306. Settle
  307. Shaftesbury
  308. Shanklin
  309. Sheffield
  310. Sherborne
  311. Shoreham-by-Sea
  312. Shrewsbury
  313. Skegness
  314. Skipton
  315. Snaith
  316. Solihull
  317. South Shields
  318. Southampton
  319. Southend-on-Sea
  320. Southport
  321. Southwold
  322. St Albans
  323. St Austell
  324. St Helens
  325. St Ives, Cambridgeshire
  326. St Ives, Cornwall
  327. St Just in Penwith
  328. St Neots
  329. Stafford
  330. Stamford
  331. Stevenage
  332. Stockport
  333. Stockton-on-Tees
  334. Stoke-on-Trent
  335. Stonehouse
  336. Stony Stratford
  337. Stourport-on-Severn
  338. Stow-on-the-Wold
  339. Stratford-upon-Avon
  340. Stroud
  341. Sudbury
  342. Sunderland
  343. Sutton Coldfield
  344. Swaffham
  345. Swindon
  346. Tamworth
  347. Taunton
  348. Telford
  349. Tetbury
  350. Tewkesbury
  351. Thame
  352. Thames Ditton
  353. Thornbury
  354. Towcester
  355. Tring
  356. Trowbridge
  357. Truro
  358. Uckfield
  359. Uppingham
  360. Uttoxeter
  361. Wadebridge
  362. Wakefield
  363. Wallingford
  364. Walsall
  365. Waltham Abbey
  366. Wantage
  367. Wareham
  368. Warminster
  369. Warrington
  370. Warwick
  371. Watford
  372. Wellingborough
  373. Wellington
  374. Wells
  375. Welwyn Garden City
  376. West Bromwich
  377. Westcliff-on-Sea
  378. Westminster
  379. Weston-super-Mare
  380. Weybridge
  381. Weymouth
  382. Whitby
  383. Whitchurch
  384. Whitehaven
  385. Whittlesey
  386. Widnes
  387. Wigan
  388. Wilmslow
  389. Wincanton
  390. Winchcombe
  391. Winchester
  392. Windsor
  393. Winsford
  394. Winslow
  395. Wisbech
  396. Witham
  397. Witney
  398. Wolverhampton
  399. Worcester
  400. Workington
  401. Worksop
  402. Worthing
  403. Wotton-under-Edge
  404. Wroxham
  405. Wymondham
  406. Yarmouth
  407. Yate
  408. Yaxley
  409. Yeovil
  410. York
Scotland
  1. Edinburgh - capital
  2. Glasgow - biggest city
  3. Aberdeen
  4. Dumfries
  5. Dundee
  6. Inverness
  7. Stirling
Wales
  1. Cardiff - capital
  2. Aberystwyth
  3. Bangor
  4. Caernarfon
  5. Conwy
  6. Hay-on-Wye
  7. Llandudno
  8. Swansea
  9. Tenby
Northern Ireland
  1. Belfast - capital
  2. Armagh
  3. Bangor
  4. Coleraine
  5. Derry
  6. Enniskillen
  7. Lisburn
  8. Newry
  9. Omagh

Britain Accommodation Guide

  1. Where to stay in Britain
  2. Boutique Hotels in Britain
  3. Country House Hotels in Britain
  4. Eating in Britain

Staying in London

  1. Find the latest property to rent in London online at Zoopla

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