travel - United Kingdom (UK)

see also:

• helpful travel links and information - Australia
• travel - Ireland
• index of my photography blog posts by region
• Gary Ayton's Photography and Camping Wikipedia
• UK National Rail search - expect at least £25 one way off peak after 9am and much higher before 8.30am. London-Bath will take 1.5hrs.
• cheap flights are available to most European capitals for around £100 one way

• travel on underground train system requires purchase of Oyster card which is an RFID smart card allowing you to touch on and off at each end of your trip with max. cost £7 per day for inner London travel. Can buy and top up at train stations and various outlets and can use cash, debit or credit card.
• British Museum - a must see
• Science Museum
• Natural History Museum
• London Tower old palace and prison, Tower Bridge and Southbank
• London Eye
• Westminster Abbey, Houses of Parliament and Big Ben
• Buckingham Palace and Changing of the Guards at 11.30am

• classical British countrysides with southern coastal scenery
• Avon Heath, Ringwood forest tracks and heath walks near the New Forest National Park
• Swanage coastal village and harbour, 128 miles (2 3/4 hrs) from London
• 11th century Corfe Castle ruins (destroyed by Parliamentarians in the civil war in 17th century) and Corfe village
  • Corfe castle on Flickr
• Durdle Door coastal rock seascape at Littledown, 12 miles (30 minutes) from Corfe Castle
• cliffs of Lulworth
• jurassic jaunts coastal drives
• Weymouth coastal village of Jane Austen's books

• 85miles (2.5hrs) from Weymouth
• 80miles (2 1/4hrs) from Bath

• Stonehenge - 37miles (1hr) from Bath
• Lacock - Harry Potter village
• Castle Combe village, Wiltshire (en route to Oxford or Warwick Castle)

• drive to Hereford from Bath 66 miles (1 3/4 hrs) for castles, etc
• drive from Hereford to Royal Leamington Spa and Warwick Castle, 67 miles (1.5hrs)

• Oxford
• Minster Lovell Hall, Witney (just west of Oxford)
• filming locations
  • Lacock village
  • Castle Combe village
• Bibury village, Burford, Bourton on the water (“Little Venice”)
• Straford-upon-avon (just SW of Warwick castle)
• Royal Leamington Spa and Warwick Castle (2hr drive from Bath)