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
- Londres
Neighbourhood guides, theatre, itineraries and a live journey planner
- Bath
Une ville thermale romaine aux rangées de maisons géorgiennes couleur miel, dans le 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
Un port en activité, l’ingénierie de Brunel, Clifton géorgien et une scène de street art
- Cambridge
Ville universitaire de colleges, de ponts et de prairies en bord de rivière, sur la Cam
- Canterbury & Kent
A cathedral city, oyster harbours, Thanet's sandy bays and the castles and white cliffs of the Channel coast
- Cornouailles
Ports, galeries d’art, châteaux de marée et plages atlantiques au bout de la ligne
- Les Cotswolds
Villages couleur miel, églises de marchands de laine et collines calcaires vallonnées
- 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
- Côte jurassique
Plages de fossiles, falaises de craie et de calcaire et ports le long de la côte classée au patrimoine mondial du Dorset et de l’est du Devon
- Lake District
Lacs, collines et bourgs de marché en Cumbria, avec un parc national et un site du patrimoine mondial à explorer à pied, en bateau et en 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, Beatles, deux cathédrales et football sur la Mersey
- Lundy
An island in the Bristol Channel, reached by ferry from north Devon
- Manchester
Filatures de coton, canaux, musées et football dans un centre-ville compact
- 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
Ville universitaire de colleges, de bibliothèques et de musées, entre la Tamise et le Cherwell
- Peak District
Premier parc national d’Angleterre : vallées calcaires, falaises de grès, villes thermales et villages de moulins dans le Derbyshire et les comtés voisins
- 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
Ville fortifiée à cathédrale, aux rues médiévales, aux strates romaines et vikings, et aux chemins de fer
- 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
- Édimbourg
Un château sur un rocher volcanique, une vieille ville médiévale et une ville nouvelle géorgienne
- Glasgow
La plus grande ville d’Écosse : fastes civiques victoriens, Mackintosh, front de mer de la Clyde et musées gratuits
- 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
- Highlands écossaises
Lochs, glens, châteaux et traversées en ferry dans le nord et l’ouest de l’Écosse
- 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
- Pays de Galles
Trois parcs nationaux, une capitale côtière, des châteaux de Conwy à Pembroke et un long littoral atlantique
Northern Ireland 1 guide
National parks, heritage sites and counties in Northern Ireland
- Irlande du Nord
Titanic Belfast, la Causeway Coast, une ville fortifiée et des lacs dans un coin compact du Royaume-Uni
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:
- Première fois en Grande-Bretagne
- Conditions d'entrée
- The four nations: what differs
- Se déplacer d’une ville à l’autre
- Rail tickets and railcards
- Aéroports
- Ports et ferries
- Conduire en Grande-Bretagne
- L’argent en Grande-Bretagne
- Santé et sécurité
- Voyager avec un handicap
- À l’affiche
- ETA or visa?
- Train routes
- Ferries
- Places A to Z
- Parcs nationaux
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.