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As an increasingly popular destination for those seeking to stay in holiday cottages the National Forest in the very Heart of England offers the chance to enjoy a new and developing landscape.
Posted: 2011-03-22
Category: Destinations
If you are thinking of booking a holiday cottage Exmoor could be the perfect destination. The National Park straddles the counties of Devon and Somerset in south west England. It is home to some of the most varied and beautiful scenery in England with a dramatic coastline and heather moorland cut by deep valleys dotted with pretty villages
Posted: 2011-03-17
Category: Destinations
The Mendip Hills are an imposing limestone ridge that stretches from the Bristol Channel, like a rampart above the Somerset Levels, to Frome in east Somerset. This is the UK’s most southerly example of limestone country - distinctive silver-grey crags, gorges, dry valleys, rocky outcrops all criss-crossed by dry stone walls.
Posted: 2010-10-22
Category: Destinations
From prehistory to the present, Worcestershire with all its variety represents England in miniature. For this reason when it comes to taking a short break Worcestershire provides an enjoyable destination. Here is a pastoral landscape from the Malvern Hills to the fertile Vale of Evesham, the cathedral city of Worcester at its heart and industrial development that can all be enjoyed from one of the many attractive Worcestershire cottages.
Posted: 2010-10-22
Category: Destinations
A holiday in the unique landscape of the English Lake District is truly memorable. Within a 30-mile radius you will find a collection of sparkling lakes and majestic fells to enjoy. For many, this is the most beautiful scenery in England, perhaps best discovered from one of the many holiday cottages in the Lake District.
Posted: 2010-09-17
Category: Vacations
Dorset is a gem of a county encompassing all that is best in rural England - rolling green hills, gorse-filled heaths, traditional Dorset cottages, woodland and hedgerows running down to one of the finest coastlines in England, including a World Heritage Site. The unspoiled coastline is ever changing over its 90 miles which take in dramatic cliff-top walks, safe beaches and seaside resorts with charming Dorset coastal cottages.
Posted: 2010-09-09
Category: Vacations
The Isle of Wight has long been known as The Garden Isle and is one of England's sunniest and warmest locations, a popular English cottage holiday destination. Only minutes from the mainland by ferry, it is a world apart and has a magic all its own. Visitors say that the isle reminds them of England a generation or more ago.
Posted: 2010-06-07
Category: Destinations
Proud of its status as England's smallest county – just 20 miles across - Rutland packs a lot into such a tiny area and is quintessentially English. Bounded on the west and north by Leicestershire, northeast by Lincolnshire and southeast by Cambridgeshire with Northamptonshire to the south, Rutland really is at the heart of England.
Posted: 2010-05-28
Category: Vacations
Herefordshire is one of England's most rural counties with unspoilt countryside, market towns of distinctive character and a wealth of varied landscapes from a historic city to fascinating villages. It has a wide choice of delightful holiday cottages to use as a base to explore the area.
Posted: 2010-05-14
Category: Destinations
No matter how many times you've seen it before, that first glimpse of the Mediterranean is always magical. If you are visiting the French Riviera who could resist dipping a toe in those sparkling blue waters, which lend their name to this dramatic stretch of coastline between Hyeres in the west and lovely Menton in the east?
Posted: 2010-05-14
Category: Destinations
A tour of Languedoc Roussillon reads like a wine list - Cotes du Roussillon, Pays du Gard, Corbieres . . . evidence that, for hundreds of years, man has scratched a living from its rocky soils. This is a land of contrasts where the gentle, sandy coastline stretching from the Pyrenees to the Rhone mouth is backed by a rugged interior. The arid beauty of the landscape belies an unforgiving past. Until their brutal extinction, the Cathars took refuge in fortresses protected by the inaccessible terrain.
Posted: 2010-05-14
Category: Destinations
Nottinghamshire lies at the heart of England and is home to places that evoke England during medieval times and provide insights into life during a period that defined the nation. Here you can discover the story of one of the greatest legends of English history, a village that still has a medieval agricultural system and a little-known cathedral dominating a small market town.
Posted: 2010-05-04
Category: Destinations
West Yorkshire is often thought of as an industrial area yet here you will find a World Heritage Site, towns and villages in dramatic settings, the home of the famous Bronte sisters, wonderful art collections and bleak yet beautiful moorland, which you are strongly advised not to venture onto without wearing a hat!
Posted: 2010-05-04
Category: Destinations
Lancashire is probably best known for the seaside resort of Blackpool and the cities of Manchester and Liverpool. However rural Lancashire offers unspoilt places that are truly far away from the pressures of modern life.
Posted: 2010-05-04
Category: Destinations
Buckinghamshire is one of the loveliest of the Home Counties, with a rich variety of landscapes; soft rolling hills and lush wooded valleys, wide, open vales, the meandering River Thames and dark dense forests.
Posted: 2010-04-09
Category: Destinations
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