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Dartmoor National Park: ponies, tors and legends

Dartmoor is a granite plateau of almost a thousand square kilometres in the middle of Devon, made a national park in 1951. It holds the

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St Ives, Cornwall: the artists’ colony and its light

St Ives is a former fishing port in west Cornwall that became, through a coincidence of geography and railway building, the most important centre of

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Jurassic Coast: fossil hunting in Devon and Dorset

The Jurassic Coast is the only site in England inscribed on the World Heritage list for purely geological value. It runs for 154 kilometres, begins

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Cornwall peninsula: beaches, fishing villages, legends

The Cornwall peninsula is the far south west corner of England, a place that runs out into the ocean on three sides and behaves rather

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Cardiff: a city break in the Welsh capital

A capital of only seventy years, with a castle that has Roman foundations under Norman walls and gloriously excessive Victorian interiors, a seventy three thousand

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Portmeirion: the Italianate village in Wales

In 1925 an architect bought a wooded peninsula in north Wales and spent fifty years building a village on it that looks as though it

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The Pembrokeshire Coast Path: a full guide

Three hundred kilometres of waymarked path that follows the cliff edge almost without a break, with a cumulative ascent equal to climbing Everest. The Pembrokeshire

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London in 3 days: what to see

London in 3 days has one feature that completely changes the budget: almost all the great museums are free. The British Museum, the National Gallery,

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Snowdonia: hikes, castles and Welsh legends

A national park of over two thousand square kilometres, with ninety summits above six hundred metres, castles built by Welsh princes and a train that

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