County maps and brochure areasWhat’s Where

What’s Where

These are the nine areas in The Little Green Book. They are shown on the map opposite – which also shows the counties within the areas – and the maps at the beginning of each area section with the relevant B&Bs marked on it.

WEST COUNTRY – Cornwall, Devon and Somerset

• Lands End • St Ives • Great beaches of Padstow, Newquay, Woolacombe and Torquay • The Eden Project • Falmouth • Plymouth • Exmoor • The ‘English Riviera ’ • Dartmoor • Cathedral city of Wells For B&Bs see page 17

SOUTHERN – Dorset, Wiltshire, Hampshire, Berkshire, Surrey and West Sussex

• Historic cities of Bristol and Bath • Hardy Country • Jurassic Coast • Salisbury, Chichester and Winchester Cathedrals • Stonehenge • Windsor Castle • Poole Harbour The coast at Tintagel • New Forest • The North and South Downs • Portsmouth Harbour For B&Bs see page 28

SOUTH EAST – East Sussex and Kent • Brighton • Eastbourne • Hastings • Dover and Newhaven ferry ports • Leeds Castle • The Weald – The Garden of England • Canterbury Cathedral • Beachy Head • Rochester – Dickens Country For B&Bs see page 38

Beachy Head

EAST OF ENGLAND – Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire and East Nottinghamshire • Roman Colchester • Norfolk Broads • Elizabethan Hatfield • Cambridge • Aldeburgh • Great Yarmouth • Norwich • Sandringham • The Fens • The Wolds • Ely, Norwich, Peterborough and Lincoln Cathedrals For B&Bs see page 42

MIDLANDS – Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Shropshire and Cheshire

• Nottingham • Sherwood Forest • Rutland Water • Peak District • Haddon Hall and Chatsworth House • Buxton • The Potteries • Ironbridge • Birmingham • Roman Chester For B&Bs see page 49

HEART OF ENGLAND – Warwickshire, Oxfordshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Gloucestershire, Worcestershire & Herefordshire • Shakespeare Country • Warwick Castle • Oxford • Blenheim Palace • Roman St. Albans • The Cotswolds • Gloucester, Hereford and Worcester Cathedrals For B&Bs see page 54

WALES – Clwyd, Gwynedd, Powys, Dyfed, West Glamorgan, Mid Glamorgan, South Glamorgan and Gwent

• Offa’s Dyke • Cardiff • Gower Peninsula • Brecon Beacons • Black Mountains • Pembrokeshire Coastal National Park • Cardigan Marine Heritage Coast • Isle of Anglesey • Snowdonia • Caernarfon and Conwy Castles For B&Bs see page 61

NORTHERN – Lancashire, Yorkshire, Co. Durham, Northumberland and Cumbria

• Liverpool • Blackpool • York Minster • Castle Howard • Whitby • Yorkshire Dales & Moors • Fountains Abbey • The Lake District • Newcastle-upon-Tyne • Bamburgh Castle • Hadrian’s Wall • Farne Islands • Durham City’s World Heritage Site For B&Bs see page 67

SCOTLAND – Highland, Grampian, Argyll, Tayside, Fife & Central, Strathclyde, Lothians, Borders and Dumfries

• Edinburgh • Glasgow with its Burrell Collection • The Borders • Loch Lomond • St. Andrews • Stirling Castle • The Cairngorms • Western Isles • Ben Nevis • Loch Ness • Culloden • Balmoral • John O’Groats • Fingal’s Cave For B&Bs see page 76

Loch Lomond

AREAHIGHLIGHTS The coast of Cornwall, its granite fangs breaking the spirit of the North Atlantic rollers, points the way to an ancient land of mystery, myth and legend

Cornwall - Devon - Somerset

The Eden Project - St Austell. Contains the world’s largest indoor rainforest and Mediterranean garden.

The north Cornish coast - one of the most stunning in England - to Tintagel - the fabled birthplace of chivalry and the tales of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table.

The Eden Project

Bodmin Moor, where its tors and the remains of the round stone huts of the farmers of 4,000 years ago set off its prehistoric past and the industrial archaeology of the copper miners and granite quarrymen.

Dartmoor Dartmoor. Splendidly desolate, its granite tors, standing stones, heather clad hills and ancient stone clapper bridges over sparkling streams rise up to more than 2,000 feet.

Exmoor straddles the Devon/Somerset border and is a world apart from Dartmoor. From a plateau of moor and heathland and beech hedged fields, fast flowing streams.

More Arthurian legend. This time at Glastonbury Tor, the site of the marshland ‘fairy isle’of Avalon where King Arthur and Queen Guinevere were said to be buried.

England’s smallest city - Wells, nestling in the foot of the Mendips. Exeter too, boasts a magnificent cathedral, with its two great towers dating back to the 12th century.

The ancient fishing villages of Cornwall are worth visiting - among them Mousehole and St Ives. They were centres of the pilchard fishing industry.

Wells

St Ives is home to the Tate Gallery of the West. Still busy ports are Newlyn, near Penzance, Looe, Polperro and Brixham, along with the great natural harbours of Plymouth and Falmouth.

Back to the age of the dinosaurs ... to the Jurassic Coast. Eastwards from Exmouth for nearly 100 miles.

And don’t forget ... Somerset is where cider apples grow! And the simply amazing Cheddar Caves &Gorge 450ft high limestone cliffs and beautiful caves, home to peregrine falcons and rare bats.