Page 16 - (DK Eyewitness) Travel Guide - England's South Coast

14  INTRODUCING ENGLAND ’ S SOUTH C O AST
Windermere Richmond
Kendal
Putting England’s South Coast Thirsk
on the Map
Lancaster Harrogate
The region covered in this guide comprises the coastal counties of Kent, Bradford York
Leeds
East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Dorset, Somerset,
Devon and Cornwall, as well as London and the landlocked county Blackpool Bradford Leeds
of Wiltshire. Bounded to the south by the English Channel, a narrow Preston
stretch of sea separating England from France, the region covers
about 35,000 sq km (13,500 sq miles) and has a population of around Huddersfield
19.5 million. The southeast counties are largely defined by chalk Manchester Doncaster
downland, while the landscape to Liverpool
the west is more varied, ranging Llandudno Warrington Sheffield
from the limestone cliffs of Cheddar Manchester Worksop
Gorge in Somerset to the granite coast Caernarfon Conwy Chester Chesterfield
around Land’s End in Cornwall – England’s Ruthin
westernmost point. The biggest city after Betws-y- Stoke-on-
Trent
Blaenau
London is Bristol, built near the mouth of Ffestiniog Coed
England’s longest river, the Severn. Llangollen Derby Nottingham
Pwllheli Bala
East
Dolgellau Midlands Loughborough King's Lynn
Shrewsbury Telford
Stamford Norwich Great
Cardigan Machynlleth Leicester Peterborough Swaffham Yarmouth
Bay Aberdyfi Wolverhampton Birmingham Corby Lowestoft
Aberystwyth W ALES Leominster Ludlow Birmingham Coventry Northampton Huntington Thetford Aldeburgh
Southwold
St George’s Channel Fishguard Llandovery Wells Hay on Gloucester upon-Avon Banbury Keynes St Albans Stevenage Stansted Colchester Felixstowe
Aberaeron
Warwick
Bury
Llandrindod
St Edmunds
Worcester
Cambridge
ENGLAND
Bedford
Stratford-
Ipswich
Hereford
Milton
Tewkesbury
Harwich
Wye
Woburn
Cheltenham
Carmarthen
Ross-on-Wye
Luton
Dolgellau
Luton
Monmouth
Clacton-
Pembroke
Tenby
Cirencester
Tintern
High
Swansea
Swindon Oxford Wycombe Watford Chelmsford on-Sea Hoek van Holland
Newport London Southend-
on-Sea
Cardiff Bristol Reading Windsor London City Margate
Newbury
Key Cardiff Bristol Bath Marlborough Heathrow Ramsgate
Weston-
Motorway B r i s t o l C h a n n e l Super-Mare Bradford- Guildford Sevenoaks Maidstone Canterbury
on-Avon
Major road Lundy Lynton Wells Basingstoke Gatwick Dover Dunkirk
Railway line Island
S t r a i t o f D o v e r
Barnstaple Glastonbury Crawley Folkestone
Channel Tunnel Taunton Winchester Channel
Ferry route Bideford Shaftesbury Salisbury Rye Tunnel Calais
Southampton
National border Sherborne Lewes
Bude Yeovil Southampton Brighton Hastings
Portsmouth Newhaven
Lymington
Okehampton Bournemouth Eastbourne Boulogne
Tintagel Exeter Sidmouth Cowes
Abbotsbury Poole Newport
Exeter
Weymouth Swanage Le
Bodmin Isle of Wight Dieppe Touquet
Cornwall Totnes Torquay
St Austell Brixham
Fowey Plymouth Dartmouth E n g l i s h C h a n n e l FRANCE
St Ives Truro
Abbeville
Falmouth Bilbao, Caen, Le Havre,
Penzance Santander, Channel Islands, Cherbourg Cherbourg
Helston Roscoff, St Malo Santander St Malo
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