Coverage
What we cover, and what comes next
Britlens is a growing guide to 59 destinations and London, not the whole of the UK. Each destination below has the same structure: areas to base yourself, things to do, places to eat and stay, and how to get there.
- 60destination guides, London included
- 239area and neighbourhood guides
- 4of the UK's four nations with at least one guide
Destinations we have built
Listed by nation. The numbers come from our own data, so they change as we add areas.
England 41 guides
National parks, heritage sites and counties in England
- London
Neighbourhood guides, theatre, itineraries and a live journey planner
- Bath
A Roman spa town of honey-coloured Georgian terraces in Somerset
- Birmingham
Canals, workshops and Victorian civic squares in England's second city
- Blackpool and the Lancashire coast
Blackpool's Tower, piers and tramway, and Lancaster and Morecambe on the bay to the north
- Brighton & Hove
A seaside city on the Sussex coast, with a Regency palace, two piers and a pebble beach
- Bristol
A working harbour, Brunel's engineering, Georgian Clifton and a street-art scene
- Cambridge
A university city of colleges, bridges and riverside meadows on the River Cam
- Canterbury & Kent
A cathedral city, oyster harbours, Thanet's sandy bays and the castles and white cliffs of the Channel coast
- Cornwall
Harbour towns, art galleries, tidal castles and Atlantic beaches at the end of the line
- The Cotswolds
Honey-coloured villages, wool-merchant churches and rolling limestone hills
- Coventry
Two cathedrals side by side, Lady Godiva and the UK's big road transport collection
- Devon
Two cities, the English Riviera, the Dart estuary and the moors of Dartmoor and Exmoor
- Gloucester
A Norman abbey turned cathedral, Victorian docks and a Roman street plan on the Severn
- Hereford
The Mappa Mundi, a chained library and cider country on the River Wye
- Ironbridge Gorge
The Iron Bridge of 1779, Blists Hill Victorian Town and the museums of a Shropshire World Heritage Site
- Isles of Scilly
Five inhabited islands and around 140 rocks and islets 28 miles off Land's End
- The Jurassic Coast
Fossil beaches, chalk and limestone cliffs and harbour towns along the Dorset and East Devon World Heritage coast
- The Lake District
Lakes, fells and market towns in Cumbria, with a National Park and World Heritage Site to explore on foot, by boat and by bus
- Leeds
Victorian arcades, Kirkgate Market, the Royal Armouries and Headingley
- Leicester
Roman walls, Richard III's grave and a medieval Guildhall in the East Midlands' largest city
- Lincoln
A Norman cathedral and castle above Steep Hill, and the Roman Brayford Pool below
- Lindisfarne (Holy Island)
A tidal island off Northumberland, cut off by the sea twice a day
- Liverpool
Docks, the Beatles, two cathedrals and football on the Mersey
- Lundy
An island in the Bristol Channel, reached by ferry from north Devon
- Manchester
Cotton mills, canals, museums and football in a compact city centre
- The New Forest
Ponies on open heath, ancient woodland, Beaulieu and Buckler's Hard, and the Solent coast at Lymington
- Newcastle and Gateshead
Tyne bridges, Grainger Town, the Ouseburn and the coast at Tynemouth
- Norfolk and the Broads
Norwich, the rivers and broads of the Broads National Park, the north Norfolk coast and the Sandringham estate
- Nottingham
A castle on a sandstone rock, the old lace quarter and the city of Robin Hood's sheriff
- Oxford
A university city of colleges, libraries and museums on the Thames and the Cherwell
- The Peak District
England's first national park: limestone dales, gritstone edges, spa towns and mill villages in Derbyshire and its neighbours
- Portsmouth and Southampton
Two Solent port cities: Nelson's flagship and the Mary Rose, a seaside castle, and Southampton's medieval walls
- Salisbury & Stonehenge
Salisbury Cathedral and Magna Carta, Stonehenge, and the stone circles of Avebury
- Sheffield
The steel city in the Pennine foothills, with free museums and the Peak District on the doorstep
- Shrewsbury
A medieval street plan in a loop of the Severn, timber-framed houses and Darwin's birthplace
- The South Downs
Chalk downland from Lewes to the Seven Sisters, and the country houses and gardens around Midhurst and Petworth
- Stratford & Warwickshire
Shakespeare's home town, Warwick and Kenilworth castles and the spa town of Leamington
- Windsor
A royal castle town on the Thames, with Eton and Eton College across the bridge
- Worcester
A riverside cathedral, Civil War history and Royal Worcester porcelain on the Severn
- York
A walled cathedral city of medieval streets, Roman and Viking layers, and the railways
- Yorkshire
The North York Moors, the Yorkshire Dales, the coast at Whitby and Scarborough, and spa-town Harrogate
Scotland 14 guides
National parks, heritage sites and counties in Scotland
- Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire
Granite city, the castles of Royal Deeside and the clifftop ruin of Dunnottar
- Edinburgh
A castle on a volcanic rock, a medieval Old Town and a Georgian New Town
- Glasgow
Scotland's biggest city: Victorian civic grandeur, Mackintosh, the Clyde waterfront and free museums
- Islay and Jura
Whisky distilleries, early Christian crosses and the Paps of Jura
- Isle of Arran
Brodick Castle, Goat Fell and the stone circles of Machrie Moor
- Isle of Bute
Rothesay Castle, Mount Stuart and quiet beaches a short ferry from Glasgow
- Mull and Iona
Tobermory, Duart Castle, Staffa and the abbey island of Iona
- North Coast 500
A 516-mile road trip around the north Highlands, from Ullapool and Assynt to Durness, Thurso and John o' Groats
- Orkney
Neolithic villages and stone circles, St Magnus Cathedral, Scapa Flow and the North Isles
- The Outer Hebrides
Lewis, Harris, the Uists and Barra: standing stones, white beaches and island ferries
- The Scottish Highlands
Lochs, glens, castles and ferry crossings across the north and west of Scotland
- Shetland
Lerwick, brochs, Norse sites and seabird cliffs on the UK's most northerly islands
- St Andrews and Fife
Golf links, cathedral ruins, East Neuk harbours and Scotland's old royal capital
- Stirling and the Trossachs
Stirling Castle, the Wallace Monument and Bannockburn, with Loch Katrine and the Trossachs an hour away
Wales 4 guides
National parks, heritage sites and counties in Wales
- Anglesey
Island of castles, Neolithic tombs and sea cliffs across the Menai Strait, with the Irish ferry port at Holyhead
- Cardiff
The Welsh capital: a castle in the city centre, free national museums and a redeveloped bay
- Llangollen and Pontcysyllte
Telford's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, horse-drawn canal boats and a riverside town in the Dee Valley
- Wales
Three national parks, a capital on the coast, castles from Conwy to Pembroke and a long Atlantic shoreline
Northern Ireland 1 guide
National parks, heritage sites and counties in Northern Ireland
- Northern Ireland
Titanic Belfast, the Causeway Coast, a walled city and lakeland in a compact part of the UK
What we do not cover yet
Much of the UK has no Britlens guide yet. If a town, county, island or national park is not listed above, we do not cover it in detail, although a nearby guide may mention it as a day trip. Our practical pages for visitors apply wherever you go:
Coming next
These are the next destinations we plan to build, roughly in this order. We add a guide only once its places, photos and directions have been checked, so we do not promise dates.
- The Isle of Wight England
- Newcastle, Northumberland and Hadrian's Wall England
Ask for a place
Tell us where you would like us to go next through our contact page, or sign up to hear when a new guide opens. Requests help us decide the order.