Page 12 - (DK Eyewitness) Travel Guide - England's South Coast

10  INTRODUCING ENGLAND ’ S SOUTH C O AST

DISCOVERING ENGLAND’S
SOUTH COAST

The itineraries on the following pages have landscape of Dartmoor and the elegance
been designed to cover many of the South of Georgian Bath. The spectacular coastline
Coast’s finest sights, while keeping long- itself is a major feature of both tours, with
distance travel to a minimum. First comes trips to the magnificent Seven Sisters cliffs
a week-long exploration of the South East, in Sussex, the naval stronghold of Portsmouth
beginning in London, before heading to and the fossil-rich beaches of Dorset. Each
Kent and then travelling westwards across itinerary offers some additional suggestions
the chalk downs of Sussex and Hampshire. for those wishing to extend their stay. Select
A week spent in the South West takes in and combine the tours that most appeal,
the golden sands of Poole, the windswept or simply dip in and out for inspiration.

Key
A Week in the South East
A Week in the South West
London
Bristol Windsor
Bath Newbury Chatham
Somerset Guildford
Lynmouth Levels Royal Tunbridge
Dunster Glastonbury Tor Chawton Crawley Wells
Barnstaple
Exmoor Glastonbury Winchester
Clovelly Battle Rye
Taunton Southampton Lewes
Cerne Lyndhurst New Chichester Brighton
Abbas Forest
Bude Poole Portsmouth Seaford Seven
Exeter Sisters
Boscastle Lyme
Dartmoor Sidmouth Regis Dorchester Alum Isle of Wight
With its rugged moorland scenery and dramatic waterfalls, Tintagel Dartmoor Abbotsbury Bay
Dartmoor has much to offer lovers of the great outdoors.
The moor covers a massive quantity of granite, which has
been used as a building material since the Bronze Age. St Austell Plymouth
St Ives
Land’s
End
A Week in the South West
• Get in touch with nature • Soak up the enchanting
in the New Forest, atmosphere of pretty
where England’s Norman Tintagel, the legendary
kings hunted deer. home of King Arthur
• Scour the sandy beach and the Knights of the
at Lyme Regis for Round Table.
fossils, evidence of • Climb to the top of
the prehistoric past Glastonbury Tor for
of Dorset’s coastline. fabulous long-distance
• Experience the dark and views across the unique
brooding landscape of watery landscape of
Dartmoor, the setting the Somerset Levels.
for Arthur Conan Doyle’s • Learn how the Romans
famous Sherlock Holmes in Britain relaxed with a
mystery novel The Hound visit to the baths they Bath
of the Baskervilles. built in the city of Bath. The baths and temple, built around a
natural hot spring, were the centre of
civic life in Roman Bath.
Hastings (1810), an unfinished sketch by Joseph Mallord William Turner

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