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Visit Cambridge, beautifully situated along the river Cam and either Stamford one of the finest medieval towns in Europe and Elizabethan Burghley House or historic Lincoln and Chatsworth.
Continue to the beautiful walled city of York where you will spend two nights. Having preserved so much of its medieval structure York is like a living museum: a magnificent Minster, a host of half-timbered buildings and 18 medieval churches. Your drive North takes you past the Abbeys at Fountains, Jedburgh and Melrose, Hadrian's Wall and Floors, Scotland's largest inhabited castle. The next two nights are spent in Edinburgh, widely regarded as one of Europe's most handsome capitals. Drive via Linlithgow Palace, birthplace of Mary Queen of Scots to the Trossachs a beautiful region of lochs and mountains with birchwood and pine forests. Then via Robert Burns country and Gretna Green to the beautiful Lake District for your next overnight stay. Visit Wordsworth's birthplace and Elizabethan Levens Hall. The following day continue via the walled city of Chester with a fine
red sandstone Cathedral, Roman amphitheatre and the famous "Rows" on your way to North Wales. You will have two nights here to relax and explore the region: see one or two of the massive castles built by Edward I - Beaumaris, Harlech, Caernarfon or Conwy, beautiful Bodnant Gardens and the splendid Snowdonia National Park. Continue via Shrewsbury and Ludlow with pretty half-timbered Tudor buildings to Stratford -Upon -Avon where you will spend two nights. The picturesque Cotswolds, magnificent Blenheim Palace and Oxford can easily be visited from here. Your next overnight stay is in the beautiful Georgian city of Bath. On your way to West Sussex where you will spend your last two nights see Stonehenge, Salisbury and Winchester. You are now well situated to tour the "Garden of Kent" with a host of splendid gardens, castles, stately homes and the cathedral city of Canterbury before returning to London.
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