Bournemouth
Bournemouth City in England Bournemouth is a seaside resort on the southern coast of England. It’s known for having 7 miles of beaches, Victorian architecture and buzzing nightlife in areas such as the Triangle. Find Somewhere to Stay in or near Bournemouth: Booking.com The resort is also home to Bournemouth Pier, an activity centre with […]
Nottingham
Nottingham City in England Nottingham is a city and the county town of Nottinghamshire, England, located 128 miles north of London, in the East Midlands. Nottingham has links to the legend of Robin Hood and to the lace-making, bicycle and tobacco industries. Find Somewhere to Stay in or near Nottingham: Booking.com Return to British & […]
Portsmouth
Portsmouth City in England Portsmouth is a port city and naval base on England’s south coast, mostly spread across Portsea Island. Find Somewhere to Stay in or near Portsmouth: Booking.com It’s known for its maritime heritage and Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. The dockyard is home to the interactive National Museum of the Royal Navy, the wooden […]
Lincoln
Lincoln City in England Lincoln is a city in the English East Midlands. It is known for the medieval Lincoln Cathedral, with early printed books in a Wren-designed library. Find Somewhere to Stay in or near Lincoln: Booking.com Lincoln Castle houses a Victorian prison and a copy of the Magna Carta. The Museum of Lincolnshire […]
Norwich
Norwich City in England Find Somewhere to Stay in or near Norwich: Booking.com Norwich is a city on the River Wensum in East Anglia and lies about 100 miles north-east of London. It is the regional administrative centre for East Anglia and county town of Norfolk. Return to British & Irish City Breaks Travel Page
Birmingham
Birmingham City in England Find Somewhere to Stay in or near Birmingham: Booking.com Birmingham is the second largest city in England’s situated in the West Midlands region. It contains multiple Industrial Revolution-era landmarks that reflect its 18th-century history as a manufacturing powerhouse. It is also home to a network of canals, many of which radiate […]
Durham
Durham City in England Durham is a city in northeast England, south of Newcastle upon Tyne. Find Somewhere to Stay in or near Durham: Booking.com The River Wear loops around the Romanesque Durham Cathedral and Norman Durham Castle. North of the castle, 13th-century, medieval Crook Hall is home to gardens and a maze. South of […]
Canterbury
Canterbury City in England Find Somewhere to Stay in or near Canterbury: Booking.com Canterbury, a cathedral city in southeast England, was a pilgrimage site in the Middle Ages. Ancient walls, originally built by the Romans, encircle its medieval centre with cobbled streets and timber-framed houses. Canterbury Cathedral, founded 597 A.D., is the headquarters of the […]
Oxford
Oxford City in England Find Somewhere to Stay in or near Oxford: Booking.com Oxford, a city in central southern England, revolves around its prestigious university, established in the 12th century. The architecture of its 38 colleges in the city’s medieval center led poet Matthew Arnold to nickname it the ‘City of Dreaming Spires’. University College […]
Chester
Chester City in England Find Somewhere to Stay in or near Chester: Booking.com Chester is a city in northwest England, founded as a Roman fortress in the 1st century A.D. It’s known for its extensive Roman walls made of local red sandstone. In the old city, the Rows is a shopping district distinguished by 2-level […]
York
York City in England Find Somewhere to Stay in or near York: Booking.com York is a walled city in northeast England that was founded by the ancient Romans. Its huge 13th-century Gothic cathedral, York Minster, has medieval stained glass and 2 functioning bell towers. The City Walls form a walkway on both sides of the […]
Dublin
Dublin City in Ireland Find Somewhere to Stay in or near Dublin: Booking.com Dublin, capital of the Republic of Ireland, is on Ireland’s east coast at the mouth of the River Liffey. Its historic buildings include Dublin Castle, dating to the 13th century, and imposing St Patrick’s Cathedral, founded in 1191. City parks include landscaped […]
Belfast
Belfast City in Northern Ireland Find Somewhere to Stay in or near Belfast: Booking.com Belfast is Northern Ireland’s capital. It was the birthplace of the RMS Titanic, which famously struck an iceberg and sunk in 1912. This legacy is recalled in the renovated dockyards’ Titanic Quarter, which includes the Titanic Belfast, an aluminium-clad museum reminiscent […]
Glasgow
Glasgow City in Scotland Glasgow is a port city on the River Clyde in Scotland’s western Lowlands. Find Somewhere to Stay in or near Glasgow: Booking.com It is famed for its Victorian and art nouveau architecture, a rich legacy of the city’s 18th–20th-century prosperity due to trade, especially in tobacco, and shipbuilding. Today it’s a […]
Edinburgh
Edinburgh Capital of Scotland Find Somewhere to Stay in or near Edinburgh: Booking.com Edinburgh is Scotland’s compact capital. It has a medieval Old Town which includes the Royal Mile perched on a crag overlooking the elegant Georgian New Town with its gardens and neoclassical buildings. Looming over all the city is Edinburgh Castle, home to Scotland’s […]
Brighton
Brighton Town in England Find Somewhere to Stay in or near Brighton: Booking.com Brighton is an English seaside resort town. About an hour south of London by train, it’s a popular day-trip destination. Its broad shingle beach is backed by amusement arcades and Regency-era buildings. Brighton Pier, in the central waterfront section, opened in 1899 […]
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Newcastle-upon-Tyne City in England Find Somewhere to Stay in or near Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Booking.com Newcastle upon Tyne is a university city on the River Tyne in northeast England. With its twin city, Gateshead, it was a major shipbuilding and manufacturing hub during the Industrial Revolution and is now a centre of business, arts and sciences. Spanning […]
Cambridge
Cambridge City in England Find Somewhere to Stay in or near Cambridge: Booking.com Cambridge is a city on the River Cam in eastern England, home to the prestigious University of Cambridge, dating to 1209. University colleges include King’s, famed for its choir and towering Gothic chapel, as well as Trinity, founded by Henry VIII, and […]
Manchester
Liverpool City in England Find Somewhere to Stay in or near Manchester: Booking.com Manchester is a major city in the northwest of England with a rich industrial heritage. The Castlefield conservation area’s 18th-century canal system recalls the city’s days as a textile powerhouse, and visitors can trace this history at the interactive Museum of Science […]
Liverpool
Liverpool City in England Liverpool is a maritime city in northwest England, where the River Mersey meets the Irish Sea. A key trade and migration port from the 18th to the early 20th centuries, it is also, famously, the hometown of The Beatles. Ferries cruise the waterfront, where the iconic mercantile buildings known as the […]
Bristol
Bristol City in England Find Somewhere to Stay in or near Bristol: Booking.com Bristol is a city straddling the River Avon in the southwest of England with a prosperous maritime history. Its former city-centre port is now a cultural hub, the Harbourside, where the M Shed museum explores local social and industrial heritage. The harbour’s […]
Bath
Bath Town in England Bath is a town set in the rolling countryside of southwest England, known for its natural hot springs and 18th-century Georgian architecture. Find Somewhere to Stay in or near Bath: Booking.com Honey-coloured Bath stone has been used extensively in the town’s architecture, including at Bath Abbey, noted for its fan-vaulting, tower […]
Wales: Cardiff
Cardiff Capital of Wales Cardiff Castle Cardiff Castle dates from the end of the 11th century and is still standing in a habitable state today on the edge of the city centre. This is largely due to the Marquis of Bute who, at the height of Cardiff’s prosperity in the 1860s, was not only responsible […]