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A set of places spread over days, ready to copy to My trip and change. Each says who it suits, the season, and how it was chosen.

Choose by who is coming

Every stop is a place already in our guides. Flags such as step-free and family-friendly come only from data we hold, and each template says what it is based on.

Families

Parks, museums and open space for a day with children.

Couples

An unhurried pace, with room to sit down.

Food lovers

Markets, old pubs and cafés built into each day.

Rainy days

Mostly indoors: museums, galleries and libraries.

Step-free

Every stop has a reported step-free status in our data.

  • 3 days · 10 stops

    London step-free: three days

    Museums, an arts center and a market, all with step-free access reported in our data.

    London

Car-free

Stops close enough to walk, starting from the station.

Multi-city routes

The routes from our itineraries, as templates. Journey times between cities are on each itinerary page, where an official source gives them.

  • 7 days · 23 stops

    A first week in Britain

    London, York and Edinburgh: the capital cities and one great walled city, at an easy pace.

    London, York, Edinburgh

  • 5 days · 23 stops

    Belfast and the Causeway Coast

    Belfast's Titanic Quarter and city centre, the north Antrim coast from Bushmills to Ballycastle, and the walled city of Derry~Londonderry.

    Northern Ireland

  • 4 days · 14 stops

    Bookish Britain by rail

    Libraries, writers' houses and bookish streets across four cities.

    London, Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh

  • 6 days · 17 stops

    Castles and countryside

    Fortresses, hill views and honey-stone villages from London to Edinburgh.

    London, Oxford, The Cotswolds, York, Edinburgh

  • 5 days · 20 stops

    Edinburgh and York by rail

    Scotland's capital and the walled city of York, linked by one main-line rail route.

    Edinburgh, York

  • 4 days · 15 stops

    Manchester and York

    A northern city of canals, cotton mills and music, then a medieval walled city.

    Manchester, York

  • 5 days · 21 stops

    Oxford, Cambridge and London

    The two great university towns, bracketed by London at each end.

    London, Oxford, Cambridge

  • 4 days · 17 stops

    The Lake District in four days

    Windermere, the Wordsworth country of Grasmere and Rydal, Keswick and Derwentwater, and a day on Ullswater.

    The Lake District

  • 5 days · 23 stops

    West Cornwall in five days

    St Ives and its artists, the Penwith coast to Land's End, St Michael's Mount, and Falmouth's castles and gardens.

    Cornwall

Themed trips

Follow one interest across Britain, grouped by place with about four stops a day. See also the themed trips with maps.

Opening hours, prices and tickets change: check each official site before you go. These templates are independent and unofficial.