Collect hire car in London. Drive west to Oxford — the extraordinary university city. Continue to Blenheim Palace — the extraordinary baroque palace, birthplace of Winston Churchill (UNESCO World Heritage), with extraordinary state rooms, Marlborough collections and gardens designed by Capability Brown. Continue to Stratford-upon-Avon: Shakespeare’s Birthplace. Overnight in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Full day Shakespeare sites: Anne Hathaway’s Cottage, Mary Arden’s Farm, Holy Trinity Church, Hall’s Croft. Kenilworth Castle — the extraordinary ruined Elizabethan castle associated with Robert Dudley and Queen Elizabeth I, the setting of Walter Scott’s famous novel. Overnight in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Drive north through the extraordinary Yorkshire Dales — the sublime limestone landscape of fells, dales and stone villages. York: National Railway Museum — the world’s greatest railway museum, with extraordinary historic locomotives including Mallard (world’s fastest steam locomotive). Overnight in York.
York Minster — the largest Gothic minster in northern Europe. Castle Howard — the extraordinary baroque stately home of the 1981 Brideshead Revisited, with extraordinary state rooms and grounds. Goathland Station — famous as Hogsmeade Station in the Harry Potter films. Overnight in York.
Drive west through the Yorkshire Dales to the Lake District via Hadrian’s Wall — the extraordinary Roman frontier, 73 miles long, built from 122 AD to mark the northern limit of the Roman Empire. Housesteads Roman Fort. Arrive in the Lake District: Windermere. Overnight in Lake District.
Lake Windermere cruise. Dove Cottage (Wordsworth). Rydal Mount. Beatrix Potter’s Hill Top. Overnight in Lake District.
Drive south via Liverpool: Beatles heritage — Cavern Club, Mathew Street, Royal Albert Dock. Continue to Chester — the extraordinary Roman walled city with extraordinary medieval Rows (covered galleries above the shops) and the most complete Roman walls in Britain. Overnight in Chester.
Drive south via Shrewsbury: Shrewsbury Castle — the extraordinary red sandstone Norman castle. Ironbridge Gorge — the extraordinary birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, with the world’s first iron bridge (1779), UNESCO World Heritage Site. Continue to Bath. Overnight in Bath.
Roman Baths — the extraordinary Roman bathing complex around the sacred spring. Royal Crescent — the extraordinary Georgian terrace. Stonehenge day trip. Overnight in Bath.
Drive east via Longleat — the extraordinary Elizabethan country house with the first safari park outside Africa. Windsor Castle — the world’s largest occupied castle, official residence of the British monarch, with extraordinary State Apartments and St George’s Chapel. Overnight in Windsor.
Final morning at Windsor. Drive to Heathrow (20 minutes from Windsor) for onward travel.
A British roast dinner is a hot, sit-down meal typically served on Sundays – hence the term ‘A Sunday Roast’; at its heart, it features roasted meat - beef, chicken, lamb or pork, accompanied by roast potatoes, a variety of vegetables, gravy, and Yorkshire puddings; what makes a roast dinner special is its sense of occasion.
A square, hand-made artisan cheese with a soft, white bloomy rind and a luxuriously creamy centre, this brie-style cheese is made to an original centuries’ old recipes by local Bath farmers using the milk from their farm’s own herds; each cheese is wrapped in parchment and sealed with red wax, a tradition that dates back to the 1700s.
Also known as a pastie barm cake or a pastie flour cake, this is a fast food dish native to the North West area of England; it consists of a buttered barm cake with a standard meat and potato pasty as the filling; the snack was supposedly invented by Bolton schoolboys in the 1950s as a ‘cheap dinner’.
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