Updated January 11, 2021. Check out www.carpediemrosemary.com for complete texts & photographic hikes through England and Wales, including the Isle of Wight.
ENGLAND
London & around
- Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese pub – the oldest pub, and the meeting place for everyone from Johnson to Shakespeare – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ye_Olde_Cheshire_Cheese
- Cliveden House www.clivedenhouse.co.uk – overlooks the Thames, and was once the home of the Waldorf Astors, and the backdrop for the Profumo Affair (1960’s). It’s now a grand hotel.
- Hampton Court – Henry VIII – http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=hampton+court+henry+viii&qpvt=hampton+court+henry+viii&FORM=IGRE
- 84 Charing Cross Road – the address for an old bookstore that was the subject of a best selling and still loved book by that same name. Also a movie with Anthony Hopkins and Anne Bancroft – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/84_Charing_Cross_Road_(film)
- Eton, Oxford, Cambridge, Windsor Castle – you can actually book rooms at Oxford during the summer months – http://www.oxfordrooms.co.uk/
- The playing fields of Eton – “The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.” Read more at http://www.broowaha.com/articles/12644/the-playing-fields-of-eton-#bdmA6gJu9qx9J7K8.99
- Balliol College (literary home of Lord Peter Wimsey)
- Bloomsbury (Virginia Woolfe)
- Wimpole Street (Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning – poets)
- Trafalgar Square
The Isle of Wight
- Yelf’s Hotel, Ryde – an absolutely adorable 4 story hotel – if you get the room on the fourth floor (and no elevator!) you’ll have the most marvelous view to the sea!
- Ferry from Portsmouth to Ryde – runs every 15 minutes – and they held it for me as I was buying a ticket!
- Osborne House, Queen Victoria’s summer cottage!
- The Crab & Lobster pub, Bembridge
- Shanklin, with the beautiful church and wychgate
- Quarr Abbey and Farm – besides the beautiful Abbey, the grounds are incredible, with old stone buildings and cottages, woods, farm animals, a little shop and tearoom…you can roam for hours.
The Cotswolds
You can hire guides who will take you around the small villages and towns of the Cotswolds, which is a good way to see everything you want to, without getting lost!
A guide is one of the best investments you can make to really see the Cotswolds
- The Cotswolds – http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=The+Cotswolds+landmarks&qpvt=The+Cotswolds+landmarks&FORM=IGRE
- The Cotswolds Way National Trail – http://www.nationaltrail.co.uk/Cotswold/
- Broadway (Horse & Hounds restaurant, The Swan, Lowerfield Farm B&B)
- Snowshill – Bridget Jones’s Diary filmed here
- Sheepscombe House B&B in Snowshill (I spent several days here) http://www.broadway-cotswolds.co.uk/sheepscombe.html
- The gardens at Snowshill Manor http://www.gardenvisit.com/garden/snowshill_manor_garden/
- Daylesford Organic Farm (organic shopping/clothes – gorgeous) http://www.daylesfordorganic.com/engine/shop/page/our+shops
- Bibury (The Swan Hotel)
- Burford
- Chipping Camden, Stanton, Stanway, Buckland, Laverton
- The Broadway Tower, located on Broadway Hill, near the village of Broadway.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_Tower
- Upper and Lower Slaughter(s), Naunton, Stanton (one of my favorite villages), Fillkin, Bourton-on-Water, Chudleigh
- Blenheim Palace (Churchill’s birthplace)
The Moors, Dorset
A view of Dartmoor – a wonderful wild place
- Dartmoor National Park – mysterious, rolling moors peopled only by wild ponies – http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=dartmoor+England&qpvt=dartmoor+England&FORM=IGRE
- Warren House Inn – at the center of Dartmoor atop a low hill, the only building for miles around http://www.warrenhouseinn.co.uk/
- Dorset
Cornwall
- Ednovean Farm Luxury B&B, close to Marazion and St Michael’s Mount. This is a storybook B&B, run by Christine and Charles Taylor, accompanied by cats Spud and Louis, and beautiful horses including Danni and Dolly. Five Star, Luxury B&B & Seaside Gardens, Perranuthnoe | Ednovean Farm
- Looe
- Polraen House in Looe; a delightful B&B with a wonderful restaurant on-site – I have stayed here and it is absolutely lovely http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Polraen+House%2c+Looe%2c+Cornwall%2c+England&qpvt=Polraen+House%2c+Looe%2c+Cornwall%2c+England&FORM=IGRE
- Talland Bay, on the Cornish coast
- Polperro – a real step back in time – Noughts & Crosses Inn – very old
Noughts and Crosses Inn, Polperro
- Cornish Coast Path – hiking along this path, goes for miles
The Cornish Coast
- The Lost Gardens of Heligan http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=the+lost+gardens+of+heligan+mevagissey+uk&qpvt=the+lost+gardens+of+heligan+mevagissey+uk&FORM=IGRE
- St Mawes (Tudor castle on the hilltop at the coast)
- Truro (the great cathedral) – http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Truro+England+cathedral&qpvt=Truro+England+cathedral&FORM=IGRE
- Fowey (pronounced FOY) on the coast
- Polruan, Bodinnick
- Mevagissy (way too touristy) – the birthplace of Daphne Du Maurier
- Penzance (Pirates of…)
- St Michael’s Mount – can be reached from Marazion, by the causeway twice a day, otherwise by fishing boat – http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=St+Michael’s+Mount&qpvt=St+Michael%27s+Mount&FORM=IGRE
- Land’s End
- Lyme Regis
- Perranuthnoe – a tiny tiny old village on the Cornish coast, just down the road from Marazion – http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Peranuthnoe+England&qpvt=Peranuthnoe+England&FORM=IGRE
- Mousehole – http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=mousehole+england+photos&qpvt=mousehole+england+photos&FORM=IGRE
- Land’s End
- St. Kew
St Kew Inn
- Crackington Haven – up a ways from St. Kew
- The Strangles – a wild area on the cliff walk from Crackington Haven with glorious views of the sea
- Tintagel (Birthplace of King Arthur) http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Tintagel+England&qpvt=Tintagel+England&FORM=IGRE
- Boscastle
- Bude
Somerset
1. Glastonbury – King Arthur and Camelot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glastonbury
Wiltshire
- Stoke Farm (or Manor) in Broad Chalke (lovely B&B) – http://www.stokemanor.co.uk/
- Village of Lacock – 15th century, owned by the National Trust http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=lacock+england&qpvt=lacock+england&FORM=IGRE
- Lacock Abbey
- The Sign of the Angel – an very old inn in the tiny heart of Lacock (inhabited by a ghost)
- The George Pub – sit here and watch comings & goings through its old windows
- Castle Combe – one of Wiltshire’s loveliest villages – http://castle-combe.com/
- Old Sarum and the “old” Salisbury Cathedral remains
- Stonehenge
Worcestershire and Herefordshire
- Hay-on-Wye (otherwise known as “Full-of-Books”) http://www.hay-on-wye.co.uk/
- The Great Malverns
- The town of Malvern (and The Red Lion Pub)
- Cowleigh Park Farm – 400 year old farmhouse, absolutely delightful proprietors http://www.malvernbandbconsortium.co.uk/cowleigh-park-farm.html
WALES – THE BORDERS AND INTO WALES
- The Brecon Beacons – wild and lonely, sheep and wild horses – on the border of England and Wales
- The Wye Valley
- Tintern Abbey (in the Wye Valley) http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Tintern+Abbey&qpvt=Tintern+Abbey&FORM=IGRE
- On the coast: Swansea
- On the coast: The Mumbles (I lived in The Mumbles as a child)
- Langland Bay
- Bracelet Bay
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