Jan/Feb 2024

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The official magazine of Visit Britain

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Editor’s Letter
What does quintessential England look like to you? This issue, I found it in the unspoilt villages and market towns of Wiltshire (p64), a place positively brimming with country pubs and thatched cottages. For many, it’s London’s iconic sights that st
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Editor Natasha Foges Art Editor Petra Manley-Leach Assistant Editor Henrietta Easton Group Sales Director Catherine Chapman Head of Sales Operations Jodie Green Advertising Manager Daisy Welch Senior Sales Executive Melissa Arancio Managing Director
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Your Letters
It was great to see in the Nov/Dec edition [Vol 91 Issue 6] the article about the craftspeople who look after, conserve and restore our ancient buildings and landscapes. If it were not for the organisations who employ and train these people, these an
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Salt Of The Earth
Perhaps best known as the home of footballers and their reality TV-starring housewives, or otherwise lumped in with Manchester, which lies to the north, the real Cheshire too often goes undiscovered. But these preconceptions couldn’t be further from
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The Bulletin
2023 marked 400 years since the publication of Shakespeare’s First Folio, a tome featuring 36 of the Bard’s plays collected posthumously by his fellow actor friends. The first printed edition of Shakespeare’s collected plays, the First Folio has beco
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Bright Young Things
“It was such a peculiar thing to have done,” recalled one of Britain’s last official debutantes, the 1,400 young women who swept a reverential curtsey to our late Queen and Prince Philip at Buckingham Palace in the spring of 1958, decked out in Dior-
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Towering Achievement
Supported by grand castle-like towers clad in Cornish granite and Portland stone, Tower Bridge is as much a part of London as black taxis and beefeaters. It might seem as though it’s been a part of the capital for centuries, but this much-loved landm
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The King’s Painter
When the artist Hans Holbein the Younger came to England to seek work in 1526, he had the advantage of a letter of introduction from the Dutch scholar Erasmus to present to Sir Thomas More. The eminent lawyer and courtier wrote back: “Your painter fr
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FAMILY Fortunes
We humans are fascinated by our heritage, avid to peer back through the mists of time, to learn of some romantic dalliance or dynastic marriage, a love match or mismatch that would lead, ultimately, to our being. One way we can trace our ancestors is
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Churchills & Windsors
“We have nothing to equal this!” King George III famously exclaimed when visiting the 4th Duke of Marlborough at his Oxfordshire home, Blenheim Palace, in 1786. Returning to London, the King promptly set about transforming the dowdy Queen’s House in
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Wonders of Wiltshire
Everyone has their own idea of what ‘quintessential England’ looks like, but most would agree that the little towns and villages of North Wiltshire are as English as they come. Sandwiched between the rolling Cotswold hills and the Wessex Downs, this
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Alfriston
Once a stopover for pilgrims en route to Chichester Cathedral, the medieval village of Alfriston at the foot of the rolling South Downs seems hardly to have changed in the centuries since. The narrow streets are lined with wonky tile-hung and timber-
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Cambridge
Cambridge wouldn’t be Cambridge without its university. Dating back to 1209 it is the second oldest in Britain (behind its great rival, Oxford) and the third oldest in the world. A walk through its colleges is a walk in the footsteps of history’s gre
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A day with… ATTILA, HEAD BUTLER AT THE SAVOY
BRITAIN: What is the first thing you do in the morning? Attila: I wake up every morning around 4.30am and have half an hour to myself to enjoy a cup of coffee and practise some silence – this is a crucial part of my routine, to reflect and energize,
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A Miniature Museum
You don’t have to pay to enter one of the UK’s smallest museums – you just have to travel to Hoy, second-largest island in the Orkney archipelago, off the north coast of Scotland. Take a ferry from mainland Orkney and make your way to Rackwick on the
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A Luxury Stay In Historic Cambridge
Located directly opposite the famous Parker’s Piece in the heart of Cambridge, Gonville Hotel is just a short walk from the city’s 31 colleges and historic quads. With 92 luxurious suites and bedrooms, fine dining, a secret garden and pampering at Gr

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