Things of interest to see and do in England!
Oct 17th 2005, 6:10 am
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Re: Things of interest to see and do in England!
Thanks everyone for all these wonderful ideas - some I had not even heard of.... I've pasted everything into my own little word document, ready for the future. There's enough to do and see to last a lifetime!
Oct 17th 2005, 9:35 am
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Re: Things of interest to see and do in England!
Originally Posted by kendodd
Thanks everyone for all these wonderful ideas - some I had not even heard of.... I've pasted everything into my own little word document, ready for the future. There's enough to do and see to last a lifetime!
Oct 17th 2005, 12:56 pm
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Re: Things of interest to see and do in England!
Oh....another lovely part of the UK is of course the Cotswolds....it's so pretty around Bourton-on-the-Water (although very touristy in the Summer) and the picture postcards villages of Upper and Lower Slaughter.
About five or six years ago we rented the grist mill on the beautiful Owlpen Valley estate near Stroud and had friends and relatives coming over to stay with us there...you can just go and have meals at the restaurant too (fantastic food) or just go walking in the grounds....the local countryside is just gorgeous, we did a lot of walking and the common is nearby with cows grazing and just strolling along the middle of the country lane:
http://www.owlpen.com
About five or six years ago we rented the grist mill on the beautiful Owlpen Valley estate near Stroud and had friends and relatives coming over to stay with us there...you can just go and have meals at the restaurant too (fantastic food) or just go walking in the grounds....the local countryside is just gorgeous, we did a lot of walking and the common is nearby with cows grazing and just strolling along the middle of the country lane:
http://www.owlpen.com
Oct 17th 2005, 11:05 pm
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Re: Things of interest to see and do in England!
Originally Posted by Englishmum
Oh....another lovely part of the UK is of course the Cotswolds....it's so pretty around Bourton-on-the-Water (although very touristy in the Summer) and the picture postcards villages of Upper and Lower Slaughter.
About five or six years ago we rented the grist mill on the beautiful Owlpen Valley estate near Stroud and had friends and relatives coming over to stay with us there...you can just go and have meals at the restaurant too (fantastic food) or just go walking in the grounds....the local countryside is just gorgeous, we did a lot of walking and the common is nearby with cows grazing and just strolling along the middle of the country lane:
http://www.owlpen.com
About five or six years ago we rented the grist mill on the beautiful Owlpen Valley estate near Stroud and had friends and relatives coming over to stay with us there...you can just go and have meals at the restaurant too (fantastic food) or just go walking in the grounds....the local countryside is just gorgeous, we did a lot of walking and the common is nearby with cows grazing and just strolling along the middle of the country lane:
http://www.owlpen.com
Oct 18th 2005, 12:04 am
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Re: Things of interest to see and do in England!
OMG a little peice of home......I come from the next town to Owlpen manor, born and bred there for 18 years until I left to join the army and embark on my travels. All my family still live there and I go back as often as I can.
Used to spend loads of my time wandering the fields around Uley, (the village surrounding the manor), when I was a kid and plenty as an adult walking my dog. You've made me really homesick.....what am I doing abroad when I used to have all that beauty on my doorstep?
Thanks for sharing and reminding me that "There's no place like home"
Sue
Used to spend loads of my time wandering the fields around Uley, (the village surrounding the manor), when I was a kid and plenty as an adult walking my dog. You've made me really homesick.....what am I doing abroad when I used to have all that beauty on my doorstep?
Thanks for sharing and reminding me that "There's no place like home"
Sue
Originally Posted by Englishmum
Oh....another lovely part of the UK is of course the Cotswolds....it's so pretty around Bourton-on-the-Water (although very touristy in the Summer) and the picture postcards villages of Upper and Lower Slaughter.
About five or six years ago we rented the grist mill on the beautiful Owlpen Valley estate near Stroud and had friends and relatives coming over to stay with us there...you can just go and have meals at the restaurant too (fantastic food) or just go walking in the grounds....the local countryside is just gorgeous, we did a lot of walking and the common is nearby with cows grazing and just strolling along the middle of the country lane:
http://www.owlpen.com
About five or six years ago we rented the grist mill on the beautiful Owlpen Valley estate near Stroud and had friends and relatives coming over to stay with us there...you can just go and have meals at the restaurant too (fantastic food) or just go walking in the grounds....the local countryside is just gorgeous, we did a lot of walking and the common is nearby with cows grazing and just strolling along the middle of the country lane:
http://www.owlpen.com
Oct 18th 2005, 12:57 am
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Re: Things of interest to see and do in England!
Originally Posted by theduke
SCOTLAND! Never mind with England Scotland is much nicer, but also much colder wetter and has a it's fair share of NEDS(chavs). 
I asked several people in Scotland who use the term, and none of them seemed to know.
Also, I'd add Cadbury World to the list. The story of the Cadbury factory in Bournville (the "factory in a garden", as the Cadbury brothers christened it) is very interesting, and for me, brings back memories. I learned to swim in the Cadbury factory swimming pool (the "women's pool" - they built separate pools for men and women, as they were Quakers).
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Oct 18th 2005, 1:11 am
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Re: Things of interest to see and do in England!
Originally Posted by dunroving
Don't mean to hijack the thread, but do you know how this term (ned) originated?
Kind of goes into it...
Oct 18th 2005, 2:24 am
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Re: Things of interest to see and do in England!
Originally Posted by kendodd
We’ve had a lovely piccies thread, so maybe we should have a “places to see and things to do” thread.
Here is a current “wish list” of things I’d like to do and places I’d like to visit, some I’ve done and want to do again, and some I haven’t…….
Anyone else got any ideas to add, because I’m sure I’ve missed lots out?
Windsor Castle (incl. doll’s house used by Queen Mary)
Hampton Court Palace – home of Henry VIII
Stonehenge
Chatsworth House
Lacock Abbey (wasn’t Harry Potter filmed here?)
Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings (in Bromsgrove – didn’t even know this existed)
Warwick Castle
Lumley Castle in Durham
Alnwick Castle in Northumberland
Tower of London
London Dungeons
London Eye
Kew Gardens
Althorp in Northants (love her or loathe her – I would love to see the Diana Collection)
Eden Project
Stratford-upon-Avon
Alton Towers
Legoland
Cheddar Gorge
And areas to go for a long weekend or holiday:
Lake District
Mendip Hills
Isle of Wight
Cornwall and Devon (Salcombe)
Centerparcs in Sherwood Forest, Longleat or Elveden
Scotland, Loch Ness, Trossachs, Ben Nevis
Ireland
Cycling in Norfolk
(Anyone know the name of the medieval village in Suffolk? Westhoe or something?)
Here is a current “wish list” of things I’d like to do and places I’d like to visit, some I’ve done and want to do again, and some I haven’t…….
Anyone else got any ideas to add, because I’m sure I’ve missed lots out?
Windsor Castle (incl. doll’s house used by Queen Mary)
Hampton Court Palace – home of Henry VIII
Stonehenge
Chatsworth House
Lacock Abbey (wasn’t Harry Potter filmed here?)
Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings (in Bromsgrove – didn’t even know this existed)
Warwick Castle
Lumley Castle in Durham
Alnwick Castle in Northumberland
Tower of London
London Dungeons
London Eye
Kew Gardens
Althorp in Northants (love her or loathe her – I would love to see the Diana Collection)
Eden Project
Stratford-upon-Avon
Alton Towers
Legoland
Cheddar Gorge
And areas to go for a long weekend or holiday:
Lake District
Mendip Hills
Isle of Wight
Cornwall and Devon (Salcombe)
Centerparcs in Sherwood Forest, Longleat or Elveden
Scotland, Loch Ness, Trossachs, Ben Nevis
Ireland
Cycling in Norfolk
(Anyone know the name of the medieval village in Suffolk? Westhoe or something?)
Cornwall - the whole of it! Padstow, Fowey, Polperro - historic fishing villages
Alnwick Castle (Harry Potter castle!)
Oct 18th 2005, 3:17 am
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Re: Things of interest to see and do in England!
Humber estuary and Spurn Point nature reserve.
Yorkshire Wolds and walking the Wolds Way.
North York Moors
Rosemont Abbey
Dalby Forest and Pickering
http://www.touristnetuk.com/ne/forest-enterprise/
I absolutely love it up there. Fantastic walks, marvelous countryside and terrific little country pubs that serve real ale and homemade grub....bloody marvelous!
Yorkshire Wolds and walking the Wolds Way.
North York Moors
Rosemont Abbey
Dalby Forest and Pickering
http://www.touristnetuk.com/ne/forest-enterprise/
I absolutely love it up there. Fantastic walks, marvelous countryside and terrific little country pubs that serve real ale and homemade grub....bloody marvelous!
Oct 18th 2005, 8:34 am
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Re: Things of interest to see and do in England!
Originally Posted by Sue
OMG a little peice of home......I come from the next town to Owlpen manor, born and bred there for 18 years until I left to join the army and embark on my travels. All my family still live there and I go back as often as I can.
Used to spend loads of my time wandering the fields around Uley, (the village surrounding the manor), when I was a kid and plenty as an adult walking my dog. You've made me really homesick.....what am I doing abroad when I used to have all that beauty on my doorstep?
Thanks for sharing and reminding me that "There's no place like home"
Sue
Used to spend loads of my time wandering the fields around Uley, (the village surrounding the manor), when I was a kid and plenty as an adult walking my dog. You've made me really homesick.....what am I doing abroad when I used to have all that beauty on my doorstep?
Thanks for sharing and reminding me that "There's no place like home"
Sue
Oct 18th 2005, 1:04 pm
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Re: Things of interest to see and do in England!
Originally Posted by Bob
I thought of another place (related to food again, wonder why?). The cafe on the top floor of the Glasgow Modern Art Museum. Great view of the Glasgow rooftops. If you look in one particular direction, you'd almost think you were in Paris.
Oct 18th 2005, 1:08 pm
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Re: Things of interest to see and do in England!
Originally Posted by possoms
Are you in Australia Sue??
Oct 19th 2005, 9:29 pm
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Re: Things of interest to see and do in England!
Originally Posted by seacreature
Hell, there are so many!! 
Eden Project,
Tintagel,
Bath,
Bodiam Castle,
Leeds Castle,
Oxford,
Cambridge,
Kew Gardens,
Highgate cemetry,
Brighton Pavilion,
Warwick Castle,
Conwy Castle,
Beaumaris Castle,
Brecon Beacons,
Dartmoor,
Snowdonia,
Exmoor,
Cotswolds,
Alnwick Castle,
Isle of Skye,
Orkney Islands,
Shetland Islands,
Norfolk Broads,
Settle-Carlisle Railway etc.
Britain is so beautiful, it would take a lifetime to see everything.
Eden Project,
Tintagel,
Bath,
Bodiam Castle,
Leeds Castle,
Oxford,
Cambridge,
Kew Gardens,
Highgate cemetry,
Brighton Pavilion,
Warwick Castle,
Conwy Castle,
Beaumaris Castle,
Brecon Beacons,
Dartmoor,
Snowdonia,
Exmoor,
Cotswolds,
Alnwick Castle,
Isle of Skye,
Orkney Islands,
Shetland Islands,
Norfolk Broads,
Settle-Carlisle Railway etc.
Britain is so beautiful, it would take a lifetime to see everything.
Do they not teach Geography in English schools?
Oct 19th 2005, 9:39 pm
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Re: Things of interest to see and do in England!
Come and visit St Albans Abbey, absolutely gorgeous!!
I have lived in St Albans for 18 months now and love it, cobbly streets, old cottages and churches and so many plaques around for people i've never even heard of!! Pubs are pretty good too and there are loads of them!!
I have lived in St Albans for 18 months now and love it, cobbly streets, old cottages and churches and so many plaques around for people i've never even heard of!! Pubs are pretty good too and there are loads of them!!
Oct 20th 2005, 9:37 am
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Re: Things of interest to see and do in England!
Originally Posted by mary1
Since when were the Shetland islands,Orkney Islands,and the Isle of Skye "Things of Interest to see in England"?
Do they not teach Geography in English schools?
Do they not teach Geography in English schools?
They maybe places to visit within the UK, not just England but at least they are within driving distance unlike here