Nick Dalton - Frommers England [2012]: & the best of Wales

Frommers England 2012 & the Best of Wales

by Nick Dalton & Deborah Stone

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List of Maps

Englands Historical Highlights

Suggested England Itineraries

Central London

Attractions, Hotels & Restaurants in the West End

Attractions, Hotels & Restaurants in West London

Attractions, Hotels & Restaurants in Southwest London

Westminster Abbey

Attractions, Hotels & Restaurants in South Bank & the City

St. Pauls Cathedral

Attractions, Hotels & Restaurants in East London

Greenwich

The Thames Valley

Oxford

Kent, Surrey & Sussex

Canterbury

Kents Castles & Gardens

Brighton

Hampshire & Dorset

Winchester

Historic Dockyard & Old Portsmouth

Wiltshire & Somerset

Salisbury

Bath

Bristol

Devon

Dartmoor National Park

Torquay

Cornwall

The Cotswolds

Warwickshire: Shakespeare Country

Stratford-upon-Avon

Birmingham

East Anglia

Cambridge

East Midlands

The Northwest

Manchester

Chester

Liverpool

The Lake District

Yorkshire & Northumbria

Leeds

York

New Castle

South Wales

Cardiff

Brecon Beacons

Swansea

North Wales

Conwy

Llandudno

Note About Maps

This guide contains dozens of maps of varying sizes and complexity. If you find it hard to read a map on your device, use the zoom function to enlarge. You can also download and/or printout PDFs of all of the maps in this guide. Go to www.frommers.com/go/ebookmaps and click on the title of your guide.

About the Authors

Nick Dalton and Deborah Stone work as a team (generally helped on research trips by children Georgia and Henry). Using the knowledge garnered from writing about England and Wales for newspapers, magazines, and books, they were lead writers here, uniting a team despatched to the countries far reaches.

They co-wrote Kent, Surrey & Sussex, Cambridge & East Anglia, and Cardiff & South Wales, along with Suggested Itineraries, and much of The Best of... , In Depth (in which history graduate Deborah revelled in the Today and Making of... sections), and Planning Your Trip.

Together they have written Frommers Wales With Your Family, and have worked on Frommers editing projects for destinations from Vienna to Iceland.

Nick writes on travel for U.K. newspapers such as the Daily Telegraph, the Times and the Daily Express. He also, for his sins, covers skiing and cruises worldwide, and is a regular visitor to the U.S., where he has written travel guides for Colorado and other states. He has also written Frommers Salzburg Day By Day.

Deborah has written prolifically for the Daily Telegraph and Daily Express, on U.K. and family travel, having spent her childhood camping all over Britain, but particularly in East Anglia and Wales. She is a leading cruise writer, and is Online Gardening Editor at the Daily and Sunday Express.

Donald Strachan is a Scottish journalist, writer, and editor who has lived most of his life down south in England. He has written about the country, and wider European travel, for newspapers worldwide, including the Sydney Morning Herald and the Independent on Sunday, and is the U.K. Sunday Telegraph s regular contributor on travel-related new technology. Hes also authored or co-authored several recent guidebooks to European destinations, including Frommers London 2012 and Frommers Tuscany, Umbria & Florence With Your Family. Donald was responsible for the sections on London, North Wales, Hampshire, Dorset, Wiltshire, and southern Somerset.

Stephen Keeling is a journalist and writer who lives in New York but returns to his native England several times a year. He usually visits Bristol to deliver Hershey bars to his nephews, before making an annual pilgrimage through the Cotswolds to the RSC in Stratford (Stephen wrote the Cotswolds and Heart of England chapters in this guide, and the Bristol, Bath and west Somerset sections of chapter 8). Stephen also wrote the Thames Valley and Chilterns chapter, allowing him to re-visit his old college haunts in Oxford. Hes authored or co-authored several recent guidebooks to European destinations, including Frommers Florence, Tuscany & Umbria With Your Family.

Rhonda Carrier, who hails from the East Midlands, has lived in London, Paris, Vienna, and Hong Kong, and is now based in Manchester, writes widely about travel in the U.K. and abroad for Frommers and frommers.com, Rizzoli, takethefamily.com, The Guardian and The Observer, The Mail Online, P&O Ferries, and others. A family travel expert, she has authored three editions of Frommers London with Kids as well as the guidebooks Frommers Brittany With Your Family and Frommers Normandy With Your Family, and edited several other titles in the With Your Family series. Rhonda wrote the chapters East Midlands, The Northwest, and Yorkshire & the Northeast.