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Destination of the Month
Sheffield: If your idea of Sheffield is either of the versions seen in The Full Monty, think again. While the steel and cutlery industries live on, the old smokestack Sheffield is a fading memory; likewise the Thatcher era wasteland seen in the movie. More perhaps than any other city on the ...More

Its Cold Outside

Satis House, Yoxford

Stones at Callinish

Escape Boutique B&B, Llandudno

The Rose and Crown, Snettisham

Cressbrook Hall & Cottages, Derbyshire

Lundy Island

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famous places

On this day: 1st aerial crossing of the channel in a balloon - 1785

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Events this month include
Somerset: Wassailing the Apple Tree Cheshire: The Cheshire Winter Fine Art & Antiques Fair Perthshire: Blairgowrie Ne'er Day Fun Run West Yorkshire: Tom Lamb: My Mining Days 1946 - 1969 North Yorkshire: Plough Slots Service London: Opening of the Courts of Oyer & Terminer South Wales: Abertawe Festival of Young Musicians, More events

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Places we like

Bits of Britain that we really go for. As well as the famous spots, there are other places like Hertford (for the castle & the bustle), Durham and Ely (for the cathedrals), North Cornish Coast (for the rough seas) Heart of Devon (for the lush green fields) West Norfolk (for the wide sandy beaches) and Taunton (for the cider).

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Most recent famous Britons added:
James I, A E Housman, Egbert, Andrew Carnegie, Edmund the Elder, Edmund Ironside, Ethelbald, Ethelwulf, Montgomery, Ethelbert, Sweyn Forkbeard, Athelstan, Edward The Elder, Edred, Edgar the Peaceful, Edwy the Fair, Hardicanute, Ethelred II (the unready), John Evelyn, Canute, King Harold, Bill Wyman, Henry II, William II (rufus the red), King John

Most recent famous Dates added:
1858, Big Ben Winched into Place, 1859, Big Bens First Strike, 1843, Dickens Publishes 'a Christmas Carol', 1981, Penlee Lifeboat Disaster, 1912, Piltdown Man Discovered, 1894, First international terrorist attack on Britain?, 1968, Mary Bell found Guilty, 1983, IRA bomb Harrods, 2003, Ian Huntly found Guilty of Soham Murders, 1789, Last execution by burning in Britain, 1915, Retreat from Gallipoli, 1995, Bosman Ruling, 1958, Opening of UK's 1st Motorway, 1952, Start of the Great Smog, 1995, Nick Leeson jailed for Barings Bank Collapse

Where we've been

Just back from a splendid New Year break from this, the very warmest of hotels. Have said before and will say again the measure of any hotel are the ...
Westover Hall, Hampshire

Books:

The Rough Guide to Britain

British Isles: A Natural History

A People's History of Britain

Hotel of the month:

Gleneagles Hotel (The), Perthshire

Inn of the month:

Swan Inn, Surrey

Self-Catering of the month:

23 Greengarden House, London

B&B of the month:

Cathedral House, Cambridgeshire

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