This page provides a list of the main things to see in Britain. "++"
identifies the top attractions.
Also see this page on architecture.
Southern England
- Winchester: ++Cathedral (1079)
- Burghclere in Hampshire: Sandham Memorial Chapel with Stanley Spencer's paintings
- Chichester: -cathedral
- Arundel: Castle
- Cass Scupture Foundation in West Sussex
- Brighton: +John Nash's Royal Pavillion (1823), Palace pier
- Bodiam castle
- Rye: +Ypres tower, Land gate
- Canterbury: +Cathedral (1130) with +chancel of 1184
- Aylesford: +Leeds Castle (not in Leeds but in Aylesford)
- Leeds: Town Hall (1859)
- Ely: cathedral
- Blickling Hall
- Norwich: +Cathedral (12th c), Denys Lasdun's Univ of East Anglia (1968)
- Bury St Edmunds, St Mary's Church
- Audley End
- Perry Green (between London and Cambridge): +Henry Moore Foundation
- Cambridge: Bridge of sighs, Trinity College, +King's College Chapel (16th c), St John's College, Queen's College, +Holy Sepulchre or Round Church (1130)
- Bletchley Park's mansion (where Turing and others worked)
- Near Cambridge: Castle Hedingham (1140)
- Thorpeness: House in the Clouds (1923)
- Petworth: Great house
- Rochester: +Cathedral (13th c), +Castle/donjon of 1130
- Salisbury: ++Cathedral (1220), Wilton House, Stourhead garden
- Standlynch at Trafalgar Park (south of Salisbury, in Wiltshire): Cipriani's +panorama frescoes over the walls of the music room)
- Stonehenge: ++Megaliths
- Avebury (near Stonehenge): megaliths, stone circle, +Silbury Hill (largest neolithic mound in Western Europe)
- Warwick: +St Mary's, +Castle
- Stratford-upon-Avon
- Chipping Campden: old houses
- Wells: +Cathedral (1180) with curvilinear arches and Lady Chapel's vault
- Lutyens' Tigbourne Court, Surrey (1898)
- Bath: Roman baths of 75BC, Royal Crescent, Pulteney Bridge, +Bath Abbey, Great Bath
- Bradford on Avon: St Laurence's church (975)
- Bristol: St Mary Redcliffe (13th c), +Banksy's stencil art
- Suffolk: Ickworth palace (1830), House in the Clouds in Thorpeness
- Philip Webb's Red House, Bexley Heath, Kent (1859)
- Cornwall: +St Michael's Mount
- Dorchester: Montacute House (1600)
- Exeter: cathedral (1328)
- Glastonbury: ruins of abbey
- Gloucester: cathedral (1100): south walk of cloister, arches of the nave
- Greenwich: Wren's Royal Naval Hospital (1716) and Jones' Queen's House (1635)
- Knole mansion
London
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Wales
- Abergele: Gwrych Castle
- Aberystwyth: University College (1864)
- Beaumaris: Castle
- Caernarvon: +Castle (1322)
- Caerphilly: Castle
- Cardiff: +Castle
- Conwy: +Castle
- Harlech: Castle
- Pembroke: +Castle
- St David's: +Cathedral
- Tintern: +Abbey
Central England
- Hertfordshire (north of London): Henry Moore Foundation
- Birmingham, Central England: City Museum
- Coventry, St Michael's (1962)
- Lichfield: +Cathedral (1325)
- Lincoln: +Cathedral (1192)
- Stamford: Burghley House
- Liverpool: Albert Dock, George Pier, Frederick Gibberd's Catholic Cathedral of Christ the King (1967), Giles Scott's Anglican Cathedral
- Oxford: +Christ Church, Merton College, Magdalen College, +Radcliffe Camera, Bodleian library, All Souls College
- Peterborough: Cathedral
- Southwell: cathedral (1131) with three tiers of arches
- Windsor: +Castle with +Gilbert's tomb of Prince Victor, Eton College
- Woodstock: +Nicholas Hawksmoor's Blenheim Palace (1724)
- Hatfield House
- St Albans
- Worcester: Cathedral
- Lutyens' Plaisaunce, Overstrand, Norfolk (1901)
Western England
- Chester: Old city, +the Rows, Watergate St
- Ludlow: Stokesay Castle
- Ironbridge Gorge
- Hereford: Old House
Northern England
- Bamburgh Castle
- Chollerford: Hadrian's wall
- Newcastle upon Tyne: St Nicholas cathedral
- Derwentwater Lake
- Durham: +Cathedral (13th c)
- Hexham: Priory, Moot Hall
- Blackpool: Tower
- Manchester: Museum of Science, City Hall, +Civil Justice Centre, Daniel Libeskind's Imperial War Museum North (2001)
- Hardwick Hall (1597)
- Sheffield: City Hall
- Ripon: +Fountains Abbey
- York: +Cathedral (minster), Selby abbey, Rielvaux Abbey
- Wakefield: Bretton Country Park's +Henry Moore sculptures, +Yorkshire Sculpture Park (Saint Phalle's Buddha, Barbara Hepworth's Family of Man, Jonathan Borofsky's "Molecule Man 1+1+1", etc)
- Beverley: +Cathedral (minster)
- Castle Howard
Scotland
- Stirling: Castle
- Melrose: +Abbey (12th c)
- Dundee: +Glamis castle
- " The Flying Scotsman" railway (1923)
- Edinburgh: Castle, Old town, +Royal Mile, Forth Bridge (1964), Walter Scott Monument (1846), Ron Mueck's "A Girl" (2006) at National Galleries of Scotland , Scottish Parliament Building, Jupiter Artland sculpture park
- Glasgow: Museum, Gallery of Modern Art (with Michael McMillen's "Inner City"), Alexander Thomson's Caledonia Rd Free Church (1857), Kelvingrove Art Gallery, University, Provand's Lordship (medieval house), Zaha Hadid's Museum of Transport
- Pentland Hills: +Ian Hamilton Finlay's "Little Sparta"
- Maybole: +Culzean castle
- Aberdeen: +Provost Skene's House
- Inveraray castle
- Forth Bridge (1890)
- New Lanark
- St Kilda
- Neolithic Orkney
- Antonine Wall
- Grampian Mountains
- Hebrides: Callanish megaliths (on Lewis island), Uig bay (on Skye island), basalt pinnacles of Trotternish Peninsula (on Skye island), Fingal's cave (on Staffa)
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Notes
- Changing money in London: exchange bureaus at the London airports rank among the most stunning legalized robberies in the world. Take the tube to Paddington Station and walk to Praed Street, where you have a choice of bureaus.
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