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A September Week in England: Ten Heritage Places
Ten heritage places in one September loop through England: the Tower of London, Canterbury, Stonehenge and Georgian Bath in the […]
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From Tower of London – Virtual Tour 360° to The English Lake District — Birthplace of the Romantic Landscape, Cumbria, in the order we curated them.
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Ten heritage places in one September loop through England: the Tower of London, Canterbury, Stonehenge and Georgian Bath in the south; Blenheim Palace, the iron bridge of the Severn Gorge and the mills of the Derwent Valley across the Midlands; then Norman Durham, Hadrian’s Wall and the Lake District in the north. Timed for England’s Heritage Open Days, the September fortnight when thousands of buildings open free of charge. Each stop links to its full entry in the archive; download the GPX or KML for your own navigator.
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Tower of London – Virtual Tour 360°
A Norman fortress on the Thames, founded in 1066, that has served as palace, prison and treasury, and today holds the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom.
Canterbury Cathedral – Virtual Tour 360°
The cathedral of the Archbishop of Canterbury and spiritual heart of the Anglican Communion, rebuilt in Norman Romanesque and Gothic styles from 1070…
Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites
The most important prehistoric landscape in Europe and the defining symbol of Neolithic Britain — Stonehenge and Avebury, 40 kilometres apart on the chalk…
Bath — Roman City and Georgian Spa – Virtual Tour 360°
Bath brings together a Roman bathing complex, a golden-stone Georgian resort city and the streets Jane Austen knew, all inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987.
Blenheim Palace – Virtual Tour 360°
England’s most extravagant act of national gratitude — built as a gift to John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, after the crushing defeat of Louis XIV’s…
Ironbridge Gorge, Shropshire
The world's first iron bridge over the revolution's valley - Darby's coke-smelting cradle where industry began, UNESCO's founding industrial site.
Derwent Valley Mills
The birthplace of the modern factory system: a 24-kilometre stretch of the Derwent River valley where Richard Arkwright built the world's first water-powered…
Durham (1093–1133): the Norman Cathedral and the Castle on the River Wear (Durham, United Kingdom) – Virtual Tour 360°
Su un'ansa rocciosa del fiume Wear si ergono insieme la cattedrale e il castello di Durham. Costruita per custodire le reliquie di San Cutberto, la…
Hadrian’s Wall – Virtual Tour 360°
The largest Roman building project in Britain — a wall of stone and turf 117 kilometres long, 3 metres wide, and originally 5–6 metres tall, built in six…
The English Lake District — Birthplace of the Romantic Landscape, Cumbria
The mountainous landscape of Cumbria that inspired the British Romantic movement, changed how Western culture perceives wild nature, and gave the world the…
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It opens in the Google Maps app with every stop already loaded, in the order we put them in. From there the route is yours: pick how you travel — on foot, by bike, by public transport or by car — change where you start and where you end, drag the stops into a different order, and add places of your own along the way.