Visiting every county in England

WeAreGhosts

I have an ambition to visit every county in England [not necessarily in a time frame, but before I shuffle off, obv!]

So any ideas for what to see in the following counties would be great. theres only so many ideas you can get from a map./

i like gardens, historical places, quaint villages, anything watery; sea, river, lakes etc.

italics = suggestions from thread
bold = places been already

Avon
Bedfordshire - Dunstable Downs, Whipsnade Zoo, Ivinghoe Beacon, Shuttleworth collection, Swiss Garden
Buckinghamshire - Stowe, Hillesden
Cambridgeshire - Cambridge
Cheshire - Delamere Forest and Blakemere Village, Arley Hall and Tatton Park
Cleveland
Cornwall - visited West Penwith/Falmouth area several times
County Durham - Beamish Museum, Durham, Bowes Museum
Cumbria - visited the Lake District
Derbyshire - visited Chatsworth and Buxton
Devon - Babbacombe
Dorset - Lyme Regis, Weymouth and Chesil Beach, Lulworth Cove/ Durdle Door, Weymouth Monkey World, Corfe Castle, Swanage Railway, Lulworth Cove
East Riding of Yorkshire - have visited Bridlington and Hornsea
East Sussex - Brighton. Hastings. Ashdown Forest
Essex Lakeside Shopping Mall Great Bardfield, Castle Hedingham, Thaxted, Beth Chatto Gardens, Audley End, Colchester (town and castle), Southend , Marks Hall Gardens, Finchingfield, Wendens Ambo, Brightlingsea, Thaxted, Saffron Walden, Frinton, Walton, Epping Forest
Gloucestershire - Bourton on the Water
Greater London
Greater Manchester
Hampshire - The New Forest, Victory/Mary Rose at Portsmouth, Southampton Titanic Museum
Herefordshire -The Black and White Trail. Hereford
Hertfordshire
Isle of Wight - Godshill
Kent - Rochester, Broadstairs, Faversham, Leeds Castle, Hever Castle, Howletts Animal Park, Chatham Dockyard, Scotney Castle, Bodiam Castle, Canterbury Cathedral, Sissinghurst, Finchcocks. Lullingstone Castle, Rochester (the town and the castle), Lullingstone Roman Villa, Ashdown Forest, Dungeness
Lancashire - visited Wycoller and Pendle Hill
Leicestershire - Melton Mowbray, Market Bosworth and Bosworth battlefield
Lincolnshire -Burghley House, Stamford, Temple Bruer, Doddington Hall, Lincoln Cathedral, Boston Stump, Lincoln, Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, Seal Sanctuary Skegness, Woolsthorpe Manor, Sempringham Abbey, Heckington Mill, The Wolds, The Bulb Museum, East Kirkby, Wragby Maze
Merseyside - visited Liverpool city centre Maritime Museum, World Museum
Middlesex
Norfolk - The Broads
North Humberside
North Yorkshire - visited Goathland, York, Whitby, Scarborough, Filey, Skipton, Grassington, Pateley Bridge, Harrogate, Knaresborough, Fountains Abbey, Robin Hood's Bay, Staithes ... etc ...
Northamptonshire - Lyveden New Bield, Nene Valley Way, Stanwick Lakes, Fotheringhay (pub), Guildhall, 78 Derngate, Royal Theatre, Stoke Bruerne
Northumberland - Cragside, Holy Island, Bamburgh Castle, Lindisfarne, Alnwick Castle, Warkworth Castle, Berwick Castle, Hadrian's Wall, Kielder Forest
Nottinghamshire - Sherwood Forest, Nottingham Castle, Clumber Park
Oxfordshire - Oxford
Rutland - Rutland Water, Oakham & Uppingham
Shropshire - Ironbridge, Much Wenlock
Somerset - Wells, Glastonbury Tor, Exmoor, Cheddar Gorge
South Humberside
South Yorkshire - visited Wentworth
Staffordshire - Biddulph Grange & Trentham, Flash, Alton Towers, Shugborough, National Arboretum
Suffolk - Southwold, Aldeburgh, Thorpeness, Dunwich, Lavenham, Long Melford, Orford Ness
Surrey - Hampton Court. Box Hill
Tyne and Wear - Newcastle
Warwickshire - Stratford, Ryton Organic gardens
West Midlands - Coventry Cathedral
West Sussex - Littlehampton, Chichester
West Yorkshire - I live here
Wiltshire - Stourhead, Salisbury, Stonehenge
Worcestershire - -Broadway & Tower, Worcester, Severn Valley Railway[/QUOTE]adway & Tower, Worcester, Severn Valley Railway[/I]

sutty1966

Cambridgeshire - Cambridge itself
Rutland - Rutland Water
Lincolnshire - Burghley House, Stamford
Norfolk - Norfolk Broads

CapricornLass

You don't mention if you have a car or NT or English Heritage cards?

If you do:

Herefordshire - The Black and White Trail. Hereford is also nice to wander round.

Hampshire - Victory/Mary Rose at Portsmouth. Southampton has a Titanic Museum, which I've not visited but my mother says is good. The New Forest.

Wiltshire - Stonehenge, although if your interest in a heap of stones is lukewarm, your best best is to drive along the A303, you get a cracking view of it as you come up the hill from Amesbury. Avoid the summer solstice, though. Its English Heritage/NT. Salisbury is worth a visit - Cathedral, various museums around the cathedral green. Stourhead House and gardens. Gardens are open all year round and very picturesque. Again, NT.

WeAreGhosts

CapricornLass wrote: »

You don't mention if you have a car or NT or English Heritage cards?

thanks for the suggestions, all noted.

ah Stourhead. have "been" around there via Google Street View. Looks lovely.

no, i don't drive, but have someone else to do the driving. not a member of anything, but don't mind one-off payments to get in places

at the moment i am barely well enough to visit the nearest city, so i have decided to set myself this goal. it may be ambitious, but hopefully my health will improve enough over time and i will be able to tick places off on the list.

kingfisherblue

We visited a lovely village when on holiday in the Isle of Wight. I think it was called Godshill. Thatched cottages, pretty gardens, and (for us) a sunny day. It was lovely.


If you return to Merseyside, try the Maritime Museum and the World Museum.


Delamere Forest and Blakemere Village in Cheshire are pleasant. The Ice Cream farm sounds more interesting than it is, but it's ok for a couple of hours.


I have happy memories of Babbacombe in Devon, visited when I was a child. I mainly remember squirrels and the nearby model village - so maybe not what you are looking for!


It's quite an interesting idea. I'm not sure I could manage to visit every county, but it does sound like a great idea. It's just the thought of driving to Kent, Essex and other counties so far away, as I am the only driver. I know I could get the train, though, so maybe one day I will copy your idea :¬)

Ms_Chocaholic

You've missed off Cleveland.

Do you purely want to visit every county, you mention North Yorkshire. York is a lovely city and is much easier to get to and travel to other counties from.

You also mention Bristol - do you mean Avon?

Also is Humberside a County, I'm not sure?

essex_boy

Kent..The Historic town of Rochester
Essex..Lakeside shopping Mall:D

EssexExile

Staffordshire: Biddulph Grange & Trentham for gardens. Flash, the highest village in England (nothing to see, just to say you've been there). Alton Towers, Shugborough.
Essex: Great Bardfield is pretty, Castle Hedingham, Thaxted.
Shropshire: Ironbridge, Much Wenlock.

flipper_72

Warwickshire - Stratford is a lovely historic town, there are lots of Shakespeare's houses etc plus the Theatre, Ryton Organic gardens are nice
West Midlands - Coventry Cathedral
These have the added advantage of being close together so could be done in one day at a push or consecutive days if staying over

marksmith99

Ms_Chocaholic wrote: »

You've missed off Cleveland.

Do you purely want to visit every county, you mention North Yorkshire. York is a lovely city and is much easier to get to and travel to other counties from.

You also mention Bristol - do you mean Avon?

Also is Humberside a County, I'm not sure?

I think the original list is correct. Cleveland, Avon and Humberside stopped being counties in 1996.

For Greater London you've got a massive choice of things, just look at some of the London threads on here.
Oxfordshire (like Cambridgeshire) go to Oxford itself.
Gloucerstershire - Cotswold towns such as Bourton on the Water.
Berkshire - Windsor
Dorset - Lyme Regis

martinthebandit

I note someone has suggested a stately home in Lincolnshire but personally I would suggest something a little different

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Bruer

In fact there is a walk around there which takes in the above, a roman road and an old 1st world war airfield.