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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

1. 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
2. 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.
3. Hampton Court – Henry VIII – http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=hampton+court+henry+viii&qpvt=hampton+court+henry+viii&FORM=IGRE
4. 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)
5. Eton, Oxford, Cambridge, Windsor Castle – you can actually book rooms at Oxford during the summer months – http://www.oxfordrooms.co.uk/
6. 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
7. Balliol College (literary home of Lord Peter Wimsey)
8. Bloomsbury (Virginia Woolfe)
9. Wimpole Street (Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning – poets)
10. Trafalgar Square

The Isle of Wight

1. 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!
2. Ferry from Portsmouth to Ryde – runs every 15 minutes – and they held it for me as I was buying a ticket!
3. Osborne House, Queen Victoria’s summer cottage!
4. The Crab & Lobster pub, Bembridge 
5. Shanklin, with the beautiful church and wychgate
6. 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

1. The Cotswolds – http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=The+Cotswolds+landmarks&qpvt=The+Cotswolds+landmarks&FORM=IGRE
2. The Cotswolds Way National Trail – http://www.nationaltrail.co.uk/Cotswold/
3. Broadway (Horse & Hounds restaurant, The Swan, Lowerfield Farm B&B)
4. Snowshill – Bridget Jones’s Diary filmed here
5. Sheepscombe House B&B in Snowshill (I spent several days here) http://www.broadway-cotswolds.co.uk/sheepscombe.html
6. The gardens at Snowshill Manor http://www.gardenvisit.com/garden/snowshill_manor_garden/ 
7. Daylesford Organic Farm (organic shopping/clothes – gorgeous) http://www.daylesfordorganic.com/engine/shop/page/our+shops
8. Bibury  (The Swan Hotel)
9. Burford
10. Chipping Camden, Stanton, Stanway, Buckland, Laverton
11. The Broadway Tower, located on Broadway Hill, near the village of Broadway.
12. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_Tower
13. Upper and Lower Slaughter(s), Naunton, Stanton (one of my favorite villages), Fillkin, Bourton-on-Water, Chudleigh 
14. Blenheim Palace (Churchill’s birthplace)

The Moors, Dorset

A view of Dartmoor – a wonderful wild place

1. 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
2. Warren House Inn – at the center of Dartmoor atop a low hill, the only building for miles around http://www.warrenhouseinn.co.uk/
3. Dorset

Cornwall

1. 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 
2. Looe
3. 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
4. Talland Bay, on the Cornish coast
5. Polperro – a real step back in time – Noughts & Crosses Inn – very old
   

   Noughts and Crosses Inn, Polperro

6. Cornish Coast Path – hiking along this path, goes for miles
   

   The Cornish Coast

7. 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
8. St Mawes (Tudor castle on the hilltop at the coast)
9. Truro (the great cathedral) – http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Truro+England+cathedral&qpvt=Truro+England+cathedral&FORM=IGRE
10. Fowey (pronounced FOY) on the coast
11. Polruan, Bodinnick
12. Mevagissy (way too touristy) – the birthplace of Daphne Du Maurier
13. Penzance (Pirates of…)
14. 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
15. Land’s End
16. Lyme Regis
17. 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
18. Mousehole – http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=mousehole+england+photos&qpvt=mousehole+england+photos&FORM=IGRE
19. Land’s End
20. St. Kew
    

    St Kew Inn

21. Crackington Haven – up a ways from St. Kew
22. The Strangles – a wild area on the cliff walk from Crackington Haven with glorious views of the sea
23. Tintagel (Birthplace of King Arthur) http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Tintagel+England&qpvt=Tintagel+England&FORM=IGRE
24. Boscastle
25. Bude

Somerset

1.       Glastonbury – King Arthur and Camelot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glastonbury

Wiltshire

1. Stoke Farm (or Manor) in Broad Chalke (lovely B&B) – http://www.stokemanor.co.uk/
2. Village of Lacock – 15^th century, owned by the National Trust http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=lacock+england&qpvt=lacock+england&FORM=IGRE
3. Lacock Abbey
4. The Sign of the Angel – an very old inn in the tiny heart of Lacock (inhabited by a ghost)
5. The George Pub – sit here and watch comings & goings through its old windows
6. Castle Combe – one of Wiltshire’s loveliest villages – http://castle-combe.com/
7. Old Sarum and the “old” Salisbury Cathedral remains
8. Stonehenge

Worcestershire and Herefordshire

1. Hay-on-Wye (otherwise known as “Full-of-Books”) http://www.hay-on-wye.co.uk/
2. The Great Malverns
3. The town of Malvern (and The Red Lion Pub)
4. 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

1. The Brecon Beacons – wild and lonely, sheep and wild horses – on the border of England and Wales
2. The Wye Valley
3. Tintern Abbey (in the Wye Valley) http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Tintern+Abbey&qpvt=Tintern+Abbey&FORM=IGRE
4. On the coast: Swansea
5. On the coast: The Mumbles (I lived in The Mumbles as a child)
6. Langland Bay
7. Bracelet Bay