Oxford is known worldwide for its famous and ancient university, founded in the late eleventh century, is the oldest university in the United Kingdom and the second in the world (the oldest university in the world is that of Bologna in Italy). Oxford has numerous tourist attractions, many old buildings belonging to the university and […]
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Winchester is a town in the south of England, famous for its Romanesque Gothic cathedral, one of the largest in the country. The city of Winchester until the eleventh century was the capital of the Kingdom of England and in his cathedral often were crowned English kings. Other interesting buildings of the city are the medieval […]
Located in Gloucestershire, Cirencester is a city of Roman origin, one of the oldest in the country. The Romans called it Corinium Dobunnorum and it was an important seat of markets. The Romans built temples, a forum, an amphitheater and, in the second century, the town was surrounded by walls, it seems that, in Roman […]
Tyne and Wear is a metropolitan county in England’s northeast. The county is bordered to the north and west by the Northumberland, to the east is bounded by the North Sea, to the south it borders the county of Durham. The land is flat and partly wavy. The county is virtually divided into two by the […]
Cheshire is a county of England’s north-west. The county is bordered to the north by Merseyside and Greater Manchester, to the east by Derbyshire, to the south-east by Staffordshire, to the south by Shropshire and to the east by the Welsh districts of Flintshire and Wrexham. The county faces north-west on the Irish Sea via the wide estuaries of the […]
Devon, or historically Devonshire, is a county in the United Kingdom, which is located on the peninsula of Cornwall in England. The county of Devon is one of the largest counties of England. This region of the country is bounded to the north by the Celtic Sea to the east it borders with Somerset and […]
Northumberland is a county in the north-east of England, in the United Kingdom, situated on the border with Scotland. The geography of this county is varied: there are low-lying and flat areas near the coast of the North Sea, while to the north-west lie the mountains of the Cheviot Hills. Much of the county is […]
The Hertfordshire is a county of eastern England. The county is bordered to the north by Bedfordshire, to the north-east by the Cambridgeshire, to the east by Essex, to the south by Greater London and to the west by Buckinghamshire. The county is mostly flat and only in the north-west area lie the hills of the Chilterns. The territory is […]
Bedfordshire is a county of eastern England. The county is bordered to the north-west with Northamptonshire, to the east by Cambridgeshire, to the south-east and south by Hertfordshire, to the south-west by Buckinghamshire and to the west with the borough of Milton Keynes which is part of Buckinghamshire. The land is flat and drained by the River Great Ouse […]
Buckinghamshire is a county of southeast England. The county is bordered to the north by Northamptonshire, to the north-east by Bedfordshire, to the east by Hertfordshire, to the south-east by the Great London, to the south by Berkshire and to the west by Oxfordshire. The territory is divided in two by the chain of the Chilterns Hills which reaches 260 meters […]
Cornwall is one English county located in the southwest of Britain, at the end of the homonymous, long, wide peninsula, which extends towards the Atlantic. From the geographical point of view the Peninsula in Cornwall is much larger than the county of the same name, which is in fact only its westernmost end, while the entire […]
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Bath is a natural spa in the UK, is located in the county of Somerset, in the south-west of England, just 15 km from the city of Bristol. Its spas were famous since Roman times, they, in fact, exploited the thermal springs intensely during the centuries of their control of Britain, at that time Bath […]
Bristol is a city and a county in South West England. With an estimated population of more than 400 thousand people and with a large urban area of over one million people. It is England’s sixth most populous city and the eighth most populous city of the United Kingdom, and the most populous city in […]
Belfast is the capital of Northern Ireland and the second city of the island. Belfast is an important industrial, artistic, academic and commercial center and is the most important economic area of Northern Ireland. The city is famous for its murals that reflect the political and religious affiliation of the two communities: Catholic and Protestant. Belfast Christmas Market takes place to the […]
Rochester-Chatham is a town in Kent which is located along the River Medway about 50 kilometers east of London, the city’s history begins with its founding by the Romans, who named it Durobrivae. Rochester was continuously inhabited in the Middle Ages. A Norman castle and cathedral were built in the eleventh century, these two buildings are […]