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Aberdeen Known as "the Granite City", Aberdeen is famous for outstanding parks and gardens.	Aberdeenshire Aberdeenshire centres around the 'Granite City' of Aberdeen but there are also man...	Anglesey The Isle of Anglesey is located at the north west tip of Wales and is the largest ...
Angus Known around the world as Scotland's Birthplace, Angus enjoys a colourful and hist...	Argyll and Bute Blessed with some of Scotland's finest scenery, the region of Argyll and Bute cove...	Ayrshire Ayreshire's scenery is in places breathtaking and patently different to the popula...

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Basingstoke Often mistaken for a new town, Basingstoke is an old market town expanded in the 1...	Bath The ancient Roman spa town of Aquae Sulis was the base for this city that was gran...	Bedfordshire The county features a ridge of the beautiful rolling Chiltern hills across the sou...
Belfast	Berkshire The Royal County of Berkshire still possesses much rural scenery, long stretches o...	Birmingham Birmingham, the second largest city in the UK after London, grew through its role ...
Blackpool A seaside town, in Lancashire, in North West England.	Borders This is a peaceful and largely unspoilt rural area with many large and interesting...	Bournemouth Bournemouth is a large coastal resort town in the county of Dorset.
Bradford This "Broad Ford" of the river Aire turned from rural market town into wool capita...	Brecon Beacons Within an area of 520 sq miles, the Park contains some of the most spectacular and...	Brighton Brighton sits on the site of an ancient settlement and has been a popular a health...
Bristol The second largest shipping port outside London: seep up the heritage in the 18th ...	Buckinghamshire This county is often known as 'Leafy Bucks' due to its rolling hills of the Chilte...

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Cairngorms	Cambridge The world famous University city since 1209 with ancient Roman origins: one of Eng...	Cambridgeshire Many of the attractions are related to the Fens and its unique ecological and hist...
Canterbury Lying on the River Stour in Kent this ancient city is famous for its Archbishop an...	Cardiff The Roman fort foundations of this the capital city of Wales are over 2000 years old	Carlisle The English cathedral and historical fortress city of Carlisle located in Cumbria,...
Cheltenham The prestige of royal patronage made Cheltenham one of the places to see and be se...	Cheshire Cheshire is famous for Chester and its countryside and largely unspoilt landscapes	Chester Chester, although founded in 79AD as the Roman city of Castra, is considered to on...
Chichester The city centre is still based on the Roman street grid that converges on the Chic...	Coleraine	Cornwall Cornwall has amongst the most breathtaking coastal scenery in UK, and is home to t...
Cotswolds The Cotswolds have unique appeal for their stone-built villages, historical towns,...	Coventry Coventry, in the West Midlands, is both an industrial centre and a cathedral city,...	Cults Cults is a village of Aberdeen city close to the River Dee.
Cumbria The county of the sausage of the same name, Cumberland also has many pretty villag...

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Dartmoor Dartmoor is one of the best areas in country for Bronze Age remains with burial st...	Derby Derby lies on the banks of the Derwent and has Roman, Saxon and Viking connections...	Derbyshire Derbyshire contains the Peak District National park, has Roman forts throughout th...
Devon Devon is one of the beautiful counties that make up the West Country and has coast...	Dorset Dorset is famous for its Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site, its many coastal reso...	Dover Dover is a town and major ferry port in the county of Kent, in South East England.
Dumfriesshire	Dundee	Durham Durham is a cathedral city with a fine Norman Castle, dating from 1073, fortified ...

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East Sussex East Sussex has a great many castles of historical interest including Bodiam and H...	East Yorkshire East Yorkshire encompasses city, coast and countryside. Unspoilt countryside and r...	Eastbourne Eastbourne is a large town and borough of East Sussex, on the south coast of England.
Edinburgh "Auld Reekie", the Royal seat of Scotland since 1437, is undoubtedly and proudly S...	Ely Ely is famous for its cathedral and being Oliver Cromwell's home and therefore of ...	England Rolling hills, green fields with hedgerows, thatched cottages, castles and monumen...
Essex Essex, in spite of its proximity to London has many rural areas due to the Green B...	Exeter Exeter boasts a stunning cathedral, historic civic and political buildings and a h...	Exmoor Exmoor is a National Park situated on the Bristol Channel coast of south west Engl...

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Fife

Home to Scotland's capital for six centuries, Fife has always been at the heart of...

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Galloway The vast plantation forests of Galloway have various access points and amenities f...	Glasgow Whilst its wealth was built on ship building and trade, Glasgow has managed to tra...	Gloucester Gloucester has a great Cathedral, Roman remains, an Abbey, impressive houses and e...
Gloucestershire Gloucestershire, home to both part of the Cotswolds and the Forest of Dean, also b...	Greater London London is largest city in the UK and one of the oldest. It boasts four World Herit...	Guernsey The Bailiwick of Guernsey is a British Crown Dependency in the English Channel off...

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Hampshire Hampshire is a county that balances history, nature, modern tourist areas, and num...	Hereford Capital of West Mercia in Saxon times, Hereford came to prominence with constructi...	Herefordshire
Hertfordshire Hertford is one of the Home Counties and although its county town is Hertford, it ...	Hull The long history of this maritime town developed in the 1800s with an industrial a...

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Inverness

Long regarded as the capital of the Highlands, Inverness has both a firm place in ...

Isle of Man

The Isle of Man is a self governing British Crown Dependency located in the Irish ...

Isle of Wight

The Isle of Wight is an island and a county, located 5-8 km from the south coast o...

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Kent

Kent is popularly known as the "Garden of England" even though it has many histori...

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Lake District The Lake District is the largest national park in the country at 885 sq. miles and...	Lanarkshire Historic Lanark was the location of the first meeting of the Scots Parliament in 978.	Lancashire Lancashire surrounds Manchester and Liverpool yet is actually a more rural county ...
Lancaster Lancaster is linked to the British monarchy through the House of Lancaster and tha...	Leeds Leeds is an attractive city with Georgian, Victorian, 20th and 21st century archit...	Leicester
Leicestershire There are many smaller towns and villages throughout the attractive countryside, e...	Lichfield Lichfield is famed for its three-spired cathedral and as the birthplace of Dr. Joh...	Lincoln Lincoln has always occupied an important place in history from its height as one o...
Lincolnshire Lincolnshire is predominantly flat agricultural land apart from the Lincolnshire W...	Liverpool Liverpool's waterfront is a World Heritage Site; the city is littered with public ...	London London is largest city in the UK and one of the oldest. It boasts four World Herit...
Londonderry / Derry	Lothian The region has varied and unstable history with many influences, and was one of th...	Loughborough The second largest town in Leicestershire, Loughborough is dominated by its univer...

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Maidstone Maidstone is the county town of Kent known as the 'Garden of England' with the Riv...	Manchester A medieval town that became a powerhouse of the Industrial Revolution in 18th Cent...	Mid Wales Mid Wales borders England via the Welsh Marches to the east and the Irish Sea via ...
Milton Keynes Milton Keynes is a cultural and historical oasis. Although Milton Keynes is a new ...	Monmouthshire Monmouthshire (Welsh: Sir Fynwy) is a county in south east Wales. The name derives...

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New Forest The New Forest is the only National Park in the South East of England and was esta...	Newcastle upon Tyne Newcastle owes its name to the Norman keep built in 1080 and has since been an imp...	Newport Newport is a city in South Wales, located approximately 12 miles east of Cardiff.
Norfolk A largely rural county with pleasant beaches, the Broads, historic Norwich, and pl...	North Wales North Wales (Welsh: Gogledd Cymru) is the northernmost unofficial region of Wales,...	North York Moors The North York moors are one of the largest expanses of heather moorland in the Un...
Northamptonshire Northamptonshire is often called the county of "squires and spires" due to its wid...	Northern Ireland A land of variety, with wave swept coastal drives, hazy mountains, vast open moorl...	Northumberland Northumberland features a long and dramatic coast to the east, moorland to west an...
Norwich During the 11th century Norwich was the second largest city in England, after Lond...	Nottingham Nottingham is an old market town that has also played host to both the Victorian L...	Nottinghamshire Nottinghamshire contains Nottingham,known as the "Queen of the Midlands", and lies...

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Oxford

Oxford, the city of dreaming spires, is home to the University of Oxford, the olde...

Oxfordshire

From the pretty villages to the palaces and university colleges there is impressiv...

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Peak District The second most visited National Park in the World, the Peak District is an upland...	Pembrokeshire Pembrokeshire is a maritime county, bordered by the sea on three sides, by Ceredig...	Perthshire Perthshire is very popular for some of its buildings, the beautiful scenery and th...
Peterborough This city on the western edge of the Fens has an ancient past with settlement in t...	Plymouth Its maritime history is central to Plymouth, with the dockyards a particular attra...	Portsmouth Historically, Portsmouth has always been an important naval port and its heritage ...
Powys Powys is an area covering 2000 square miles in Wales and includes mountains, hills...

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Reading Reading is often thought of as commuter town but boasts the ruins of a medieval ab...	Ripon Situated in North Yorkshire, Ripon is one of the smallest cities in the UK and som...	Roxburghshire Roxburghshire lies in the South of Scotland where rich, rolling farmland, rugged s...
Rutland The county has two historic market towns, Oakham and Uppingham, and numerous villa...

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Salford Salford is famous on religious and architectural grounds as it is home to the Roma...	Salisbury Salisbury contains evidence of the Romans, Saxons and Normans. The Cathedral has ...	Scotland You just cannot be prepared enough for the breathtaking scerenity of the Borders, ...
Scotland West Coast	Scottish Highlands and Islands The Scottish Highlands include the rugged and mountainous regions of Scotland nort...	Sheffield This industrial powerhouse of the 19th century, famous for steel production, has b...
Shropshire The Ironbridge gorge, the Birthplace of Industry, is a World Heritage Site whilst ...	Snowdonia A large National Park in North Wales, scattered with bed and breakfast accommodati...	Somerset Somerset is a major county of the West Country and is home to the three cities of ...
South Downs The South Downs is an area of chalk downland in southern England, culminating in t...	South Wales South Wales is an area of Wales bordered by England and the Bristol Channel to the...	Southampton Southampton was bombed during the Second World War, which means that some of the o...
St Albans St Albans has a Roman theatre, medieval architecture, a famous cathedral and the o...	St Andrews From mediaeval times until the Reformation, St Andrews was the ecclesiastical capi...	Staffordshire Staffordshire contains part of the National Forest, moorland in the north and Cann...
Stirling One of Scotland's most historic cities and the county town of Stirlingshire, Stirl...	Stirlingshire Stirlingshire or the County of Stirling is a county of Scotland, based around Stir...	Stoke-on-Trent Stoke, in North Staffordshire, is best known for its world leading pottery industry
Stratford Stratford is an attractive market and parish town in South Warwickshire but is fam...	Stratford upon Avon Stratford is an attractive market and parish town in South Warwickshire but is fam...	Suffolk The Suffolk Coast and Heaths have been recognised as an Area of Outstanding Natura...
Surrey Much of Surrey is protected from development: with its rolling downland and mature...	Sussex Enjoy the many castles, moated sites and ruins used to defend England, as well as ...	Swansea Swansea is the second most populous city in Wales after Cardiff.

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The Trossachs

The Trossachs is a national park in Scotland centred on Loch Lomond, and includes ...

Truro

Truro dates to Norman times, raised an army for the King in the Civil War and has ...

Tyneside

Tyneside is a conurbation in northern England, including Newcastle upon Tyne, Gat...

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Wales Wales has a history as ancient and diverse as the rural landscapes to be found all...	Warwick Warwick boasts an array of mediaeval attractions and also those of the recent past...	Warwickshire Warwickshire is now a rural county since and it is famous for its castles, ruins a...
Wells Wells is the smallest city in England, with a population of only 10,000 but has ha...	West Sussex The area has a long history of defending entry inland and as such there are many c...	Wiltshire Wiltshire is probably most famous due to its extremely important neolithic monumen...
Winchester Winchester was capital of England until 1066. Today it survives as a beautiful an...	Windsor The Royal Household is thought to have moved to this new settlement around 1100 an...	Windsor and Eton Windsor & Eton are highlighted visitor attractions due to the architecture, histor...
Wirral Wirral Peninsula is placed between the River Dee and the River Mersey, overlooking...	Wolverhampton From being a medieval market town Wolverhampton became an industrial production to...	Worcester This beautiful cathedral city sits on the river Severn and overlooked by its 12th ...
Worcestershire Worcestershire includes Worcester, part of the Cotswolds, the Malvern Hills, and p...	Wycombe Wycombe is a combination of industrial and market town, with a traditional emphasi...

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York

York is full of historic attractions from the different ages and is focused on the...

Yorkshire

Yorkshire is particularly famed for its historic county city of York and its two n...

Yorkshire Dales

The beautiful dales are typically green with dry stonewalls and almost all are nam...