Suffolk, England
Suffolk is a county with a wealth of attractions to delight the visitor: rural beauty, rivers and nature reserves, windmills and watermills, ancient wool towns and villages, churches hardly touched by the Victorian ‘improvers’, stately homes, thriving ports and holiday resorts, a conservation coastline standing defiant against the North Sea.
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Staffordshire, England
The southwest of Staffordshire encompasses many changing landscapes, from the busy industrial towns of Stafford and Burton-on-Trent to the peace and quiet of Cannock Chase. Along with the Hednesford Hills, the Chase provides a wonderful open area of woodland and moorland that is one of the county’s great recreational centres.
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South Yorkshire, England
South Yorkshire tends to be overlooked as a tourist venue, but this is a region of great age and antiquity and, in many places, real beauty, both natural and man-made. Sheffield claims to be England’s greenest city, and the wild open spaces of the Pennine moorlands of the Peak District National Park roll right up to its western boundaries.
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Somerset, England
Was Cadbury Castle really King Arthur’s Camelot? Did Joseph of Arimathea really walkthrough England’s green and pleasant land to plant a thorn from Christ’s crown of thorns at Glastonbury, where it blossomed once a year on the day of Christ’s resurrection? Was it really at Athelney that King Alfred, deep in thought, allowed the cakes to burn?
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Shropshire, England
Shropshire beckons with a landscape of great variety: the little hills and valleys, the lakes and canals of the north west, the amazing parallel hill ranges towards the south, the rich farming plains around Oswestry, the forests of Clun and Wyre, Ironbridge Gorge, the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution.
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Northumberland, England
Stretching from the edge of the Cheviots to the east coast, and from Berwick-upon-Tweed in the north to the River Blyth in the south, east Northumberland is an area of quiet villages and small market towns, majestic castles and what many people consider to be the finest coastline in England.
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Northamptonshire, England
Although it is a relatively small county, Northamptonshire has a lot to offer but, as it is crossed by some of the country’s major routes, it is also one that is often bypassed. The county town, Northampton, along with other local towns, is famed for its shoe industry although Northamptonshire remains, essentially, a farming county littered with ancient market towns and rural villages.
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Merseyside and Manchester, England
At the heart of the metropolitan county of Merseyside is Liverpool, once a by-word for urban decline, it has reinvented itself in recent years, a transformation crowned by its role as European City of Culture in 2008. Manchester comprises the districts of Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan.
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