May/Jun 2024

Britain

The official magazine of Visit Britain

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Editor’s Letter
We’ve travelled to the furthest reaches of the British Isles this issue to bring you page after page of beautiful landscapes and stirring stories. First, to the island of Jersey, whose French street names and balmy weather belie a proudly British spi
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Your Letters
The latest wonderful and much-appreciated issue of BRITAIN magazine [Vol 92 Issue 1] arrived today. Reading the excellent article on Cheshire brought tears to my eyes for several reasons. My wife and I were married in Canada in 1966 and flew the foll
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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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The Bulletin
A vibrant new exhibition at Harewood House in Yorkshire will burst into life this spring, celebrating the story of colour through objects and artworks from Harewood House’s impressive collection of paintings, furniture and ceramics. The special exhib
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Story Of An Island
Tucked into the Bay of Saint-Malo, the Channel Islands may sit tête-à-tête with the coast of France, but these magical islands are resolutely British. The archipelago became part of the Anglo-Norman realm when William the Conqueror became King of Eng
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POMP & CEREMONY
Foot Guards from the Household Division marching in their red tunics and bearskin hats for the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace is a must-see for any visitor to London. Household Troops have guarded the sovereign and royal palaces since 166
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A Luxury Stay In A Historic London Hotel
Steeped in history, The Bailey’s Hotel is a charming spot in the heart of London’s fashionable South Kensington. Step inside this grand redbrick townhouse to discover an opulent Victorian atrium and a sweeping staircase that leads up five storeys to
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Lost In The Lakes
On each visit to the Lake District, my curiosity about this hallowed landscape so eulogized by the poets – “the loveliest spot that man hath ever found”, said William Wordsworth – has been piqued. How, though, to see it all, not as a serious climber,
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Stately Secrets
“D-Day has come,” a BBC newsreader told Britons early on 6 June 1944, Allied forces having launched the largest invasion in history across the Channel in Northern France. Involving 156,000 troops, 11,590 aircraft and almost 7,000 vessels, ‘Operation
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BELLS & WHISTLES
In February 1599, for a wager, the acclaimed Shakespearian comic actor Will Kemp danced every step of the 125 miles from London to Norwich. With him went Thomas Slye, playing a tabor, Kemp’s servant William Bee, and George Sprat, ‘overseer’. The thes
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Life BELOW STAIRS
Kensington Palace has become famous for glittering exhibitions of court glamour, yet it has always taken a vast backstage crew to create and maintain such opulence. The palace’s next major show may not sparkle with diamonds or rustle with taffeta, bu
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On the Whisky Trail
Wedged between the shimmering waters of the Moray Firth in the north and the brooding bulk of the Cairngorm Mountains in the south, Speyside is characterised by the wide, meandering River Spey that lends its name to the area. Skinny-legged trees line
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Bradford On Avon
In the Bridge Tea Rooms in Bradford on Avon, smiling waitresses in mop caps and frilly aprons serve scones with jam and clotted cream in the cosiest of dining rooms, overspilling with trinkets. Sit down for a cup of tea in this former blacksmith’s co
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Brighton
A relaxing promenade along Brighton’s iconic Victorian seafront is an essential start to any visit to the city. Though it was once a small Saxon fishing village, in the 18th century Dr Richard Russell, a physician and author of a treatise on the heal
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James Nason Of Pitchford Hall
BRITAIN: What’s the first thing you do in the morning at Pitchford? James: The first thing I do is walk around with a big bunch of keys and make sure everything in the house is ok. Every historic house owner will do the same. You’re almost wedded to
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Little Wonder
With its battlements and eight round towers, Edward I’s awesome Conwy Castle is a big tourist attraction, but it is to see a far more novel and diminutive building that many visitors come to this riverside North Wales town. At the southeast end of a

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