East Lothian Tourist Attractions: 15 Top Places to Visit
Planning to visit East Lothian? Check out our East Lothian Travel Guide video and see top most Tourist Attractions in East Lothian.
Top Places to visit in East Lothian:
Glenkinchie Distillery, Bass Rock, Tantallon Castle, Dirleton Castle, National Museum of Flight, Yellowcraig Beach, Gullane Beach, John Muir's Birthplace, Seacliff Beach, Victoria Harbour, Scottish Seabird Centre, East Links Family Park, Newhailes House, Hailes Castle, Preston Mill & Phantassie Doocot
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Places to see in ( Wendover - UK )
Places to see in ( Wendover - UK )
Wendover is a market town at the foot of the Chiltern Hills in Buckinghamshire, England. It is also a civil parish within Aylesbury Vale district. The mainly arable parish is 5,832 acres (2,360 ha) in size and contains many hamlets that nestle in amongst the lush forest on the surrounding hills. It lies between the picturesque villages of Ellesborough and Aston Clinton.
In 1086 the manor of Wendovre was in the hundred of Aylesbury, with William the Conqueror as its tenant in chief. The parish church of St Mary is outside the town to the east on the hillside: a feature that is very common among towns with strong Celtic origins. There is a distinctive red brick, spired clock tower at the crossroads in the centre of the town that was built in 1842. The tree lined Aylesbury Street includes the 16th-century timber framed Chiltern House and 18th-century Red House.
There is still a row of houses in the town today, known as Anne Boleyn's Cottages. The town is the birthplace of Gordon Onslow Ford, British surrealist artist, and it is believed to be the birthplace of the medieval chronicler Roger of Wendover. The town is also the birthplace of Cecilia Payne, the astronomer who first showed that the Sun is mainly composed of hydrogen.
The town is at the terminus of the Wendover Arm of the Grand Union Canal, which joins Tring summit level of the Grand Union main line beside Marsworth top lock. Disused for over a century, the arm is in course of being restored by the Wendover Arm Trust. Remote and rural for almost all its length, the canal attracts much local wildlife.
Today the town is very popular with commuters working in London. The popularity is due partly to the town's easy access to London by rail, partly to Wendover railway station, served by Chiltern Railways from London Marylebone via Amersham on the London to Aylesbury Line, and partly because it is so picturesque.
Facilities in the village centre include a Post Office Ltd, several hairdressers, a community library (run by volunteers), Whitewater's deli & cafe, Lloyds Pharmacy, and a charity shop. Wendover also plays host to the 'Coombe Hill Run' which usually occurs on the 1st Sunday of June every year. It begins and ends in the village and encompasses two very steep climbs up the Hill to the monument along with a very steep decline. Legend states that a boy from Wendover can only become a man once he has completed the course for the first time
By virtue of its geography, sitting in a gap in the Chiltern Hills and a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Wendover has much to offer both local people and visitors wishing to explore the local countryside. The frequent train service from London Marylebone makes it an ideal destination for a day trip to the country. The ancient Ridgeway National Trail, a highly popular 85-mile walking route that extends from Avebury to Ivinghoe, passes along Wendover High Street. Apart from the Ridgeway Trail there are 33 miles of public rights of way and bridleways criss-crossing the parish. These paths will take you over the open chalk downland of Coombe Hill, Buckinghamshire, home to Britains longest surviving geocache, with its elegant monument to the Buckinghamshire men who died in the Boer War, or walk to the pretty hamlet of Dunsmore in the spring and enjoy the carpet of bluebells, or enjoy the shaded woods on Haddington Hill and Boddington Hill, belonging to Forest Enterprise (known locally as 'Wendover Woods'). Mountain bikers make use of specially prepared cycle routes throughout the Woods, which also feature walking trails for walkers of various ability as well as barbecue sites and play areas for children. Close to Boddington hill there are the remains of an Iron Age hill fort.
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Scotland Trip Vlog #6 - England! Hogwarts IRL! (Alnwick Castle) and Holy Island -
Our sixth day on our trip to Scotland brought us to northern England! We went to Holy Island where we drove across a tidal flat at low tide and then to Alnwick Castle which was used as Hogwarts in the Harry Potter movies.
See every day of our Scotland Trip (playlist):
Day 1 - Melrose Abbey & Haddington:
Day 2 - Siccar Point and Tantallon Castle:
Day 3 - Stirling Castle and William Wallace Monument:
Day 4 - Linlithgow Palace:
Day 5 - Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh:
Day 6 - England, Holy Island and Alnwick Castle (Hogwarts):
Day 7 - Edinburgh - Edinburgh Castle, Royal Mile, Scott Monument:
Day 8 - Dunfermline Palace and St Andrews Cathedral and Castle:
Day 9 - Balmoral Castle, Cairngorms National Park, Road to the Highlands:
Day 10 - The Highlands - Culloden Battlefield, Cawdor Castle, Clava Cairns:
Day 11 - Loch Ness, Urquhart Castle, Glencoe:
Day 12 - Rosslyn Chapel:
Day 13 - Jedburgh Abbey & Dryburgh Abbey - Scotland Borders:
Visit East Lothian - Edinburgh's Coast & Countryside
Come and Visit East Lothian - Edinburgh's Coast & Countryside
Historic County Tops Of England Challenge
In 2016, I decided to set myself a little challenge. I wanted to explore more places in England, and so it began, to conquer the 39 highest points of the Historic Counties of England.
The Historic (or true) counties are the administrative areas that survived for more than a hundred years before sweeping local government changes in the 1970s.
They have shaped the UK's cultural and geographical identity, and while their boundaries may not be marked on modern maps, they were never formally abolished and so live on.
- The UK's County Tops - Jonny Muir.
A massive thank you to all those who joined me on the walks and kept me company.
Here's the List of the Tops in the order I completed them.
1. Brown Willy - Cornwall - 420m.
2. High Whillays - Devon - 621m.
3. Dunkery Beacon - Somerset - 519m.
4. Cold Overtone Park - Rutland - 197m.
5. Kinder Scout - Derbyshire - 636m.
6. Lewesdon Hill - Dorset - 279m.
7. Milk Hill - Wiltshire - 295m.
8. Walbury Hill - Berkshire - 297m.
9. Pilot Hill - Hampshire - 286m.
10. Bald Hill - Oxfordshire - 257m.
11. Black Down - Sussex - 280m.
12. Leith Hill - Surrey - 294m.
13. Betsom's Hill - Kent - 251m.
14. Bushey Heath - Middlesex - 153m.
15. Black Mountain - Herefordshire - 244m.
16. Brown Clee Hill - Shropshire - 540m.
17. Black Hill - Cheshire - 582m.
18. Cheeks Hill - Staffordshire - 520m.
19. Worcestershire Beacon - Worcestershire - 425m.
20. Cleeve Common - Gloucestershire - 330m.
21. Bardon Hill - Leicestershire - 278m.
22. Scafell Pike - Cumberland - 978m.
23. Great Wood - Suffolk - 128m.
24. Great Chishill - Cambridgeshire - 146m.
25. Chrishall Common - Essex - 147m.
26. Boring Hill - Huntingdonshire - 80m.
27. Haddington Hill - Buckinghampshire - 267m.
28. Pavis Wood - Hertfordshire - 244m.
29. Dunstable Downs - Bedfordshire - 243m.
30. Helvellyn - Westmorland - 950m.
31. The Old Man Of Coniston - Lancashire - 803m.
32. Normanby Top - Lincolnshire - 168m.
33. Silverhill - Nottinghamshire - 204m.
34. Beacon Hill - Norfolk - 105m.
35. Ebrington Hill - Warwickshire - 261m.
36. The Cheviot - Northumberland - 815m.
37. Burnhope Seat - Durhum - 746m.
38. Mickle Fell - Yorkshire - 788m.
39. Arbury Hill - Northamptonshire - 225m.
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The Brevet - Moving Mountains.
Ireland and Scotland Trip
tewkesbury abbey aug 2010 on the tower
the abbey at our hometown TEWKESBURY is a great building well worth a visit...
Loch Ness, Urquhart Castle, Glencoe (Harry Potter Film Location!) - Scotland Travel Vlog Day 11
We drove from Inverness back to Haddington via Loch Ness and a stop at Urquhart Castle and further down into Glencoe and some breath-taking scenery and backdrop to Hagrid's Hut in several Harry Potter movies.
See every day of our Scotland Trip (playlist):
Day 1 - Melrose Abbey & Haddington:
Day 2 - Siccar Point and Tantallon Castle:
Day 3 - Stirling Castle and William Wallace Monument:
Day 4 - Linlithgow Palace:
Day 5 - Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh:
Day 6 - England, Holy Island and Alnwick Castle (Hogwarts):
Day 7 - Edinburgh - Edinburgh Castle, Royal Mile, Scott Monument:
Day 8 - Dunfermline Palace and St Andrews Cathedral and Castle:
Day 9 - Balmoral Castle, Cairngorms National Park, Road to the Highlands:
Day 10 - The Highlands - Culloden Battlefield, Cawdor Castle, Clava Cairns:
Day 11 - Loch Ness, Urquhart Castle, Glencoe:
Day 12 - Rosslyn Chapel:
Day 13 - Jedburgh Abbey & Dryburgh Abbey - Scotland Borders:
Scotland Tourism Interview - HD
At the World Travel Market 2011 at Excel in London, ASIA Travel Tips.com sat with the Chief Executive of Visit Scotland, Mr. Malcolm Roughead OBE to ask him about Scotland's tourism industry.
In the interview you will learn how Scotland is trying to increase the number of airlines that fly there, whether most visitors come up from England or arrive in Scotland first, which markets within Asia Pacific Visit Scotland is targetting and much, much more.