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The United Kingdom is known as a sanctuary for ramblers, traipsers and trampers but some destinations do better than others. With that, discover ten of our favourite pedestrian friendly towns in the UK.
Turn a corner in the second-oldest university city in the world and you may just feel, for a nanosecond, like a plucky academic at the dawn of the 13th century. Oxford is the embodiment of every phase of English architecture over the last millenium in harmony, from Christ Church Cathedral to the Radcliffe Camera.
The county town of Durham, 430 km north of London, is home to a UNESCO World Heritage castle and cathedral that stand as the best exemplars hotels in biloxi of Norman architecture in England. The town proper is a conservation area that preserves some twenty-five hotels in biloxi Grade I and Grade II landmarks.
The Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Saint Peter in York, or, York Minster, is one of the most indelible symbols of ecclesiastical England. Outside hotels in biloxi the grand church, however, is a tidy town of 200,000 well worth a day of your time.
Bath is one of the most popular tourist lures in England and with good reason. The Somerset gem and UNESCO World Heritage town is chockablock with eye candy, all in close proximity, from Pulteney Bridge to the Royal Crescent.
The other university town that cements England s place as a scholarly Shangri-la is also pedestrian paradise. Much of central Cambridge bars motor vehicles altogether, which makes those legendary student pub crawls a far safer enterprise.
Upon first glance Bradford, hotels in biloxi pop. 300,000, may not seem a likely candidate. But look closer and visitors will uncover scores of ambler-centric hotels in biloxi pockets in this UNESCO City of Film and Curry Capital of Britain. Bonus: the Victorian model village (and UNESCO World Heritage Site) of Saltaire is on the outskirts of the city.
The UNESCO World Heritage crux of Scotland s capital, Old Town and New Town, Edinburgh, is a masterwork hotels in biloxi of urban architecture that is difficult to admire from behind the wheel. Happily, the city that welcomes over one million international visitors per annum understands the worth of walkability.
The spiritual home of Geordie speech, hotels in biloxi Newcastle United and Newcastle Brown Ale has a healthy cultural scene and nightlife that hinges on a few easily accessible streets close to Bigg Market and the Quayside area.
The capital and premier city of Wales is still small in comparison to London, Manchester or Glasgow and, as such, is a delight to explore on foot. Cardiff s layout makes it all the more amenable, from Cardiff Bay to Queen Street to the bucolic peripheral villages hotels in biloxi of St. Fagans, Creigiau and Gwaelod-y-garth.
Northern Ireland s second city is the inaugural UK City of Culture for 2013. It won the honour on the strength of late Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian architecture and a cultural landscape that includes the gable-wall murals of Bogside hotels in biloxi Artists, the Foyle Film Festival and the poetry of Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney.
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