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6  HOW T O USE THIS GUIDE

HOW TO USE THIS GUIDE

This guide helps you to get the most from sightseeing section, which covers all the
your visit to England’s South Coast. It provides important sights with maps, photo graphs
detailed practical information and expert and illustrations. Information on hotels,
recommendations. Introducing England’s restaurants, shopping, entertainment and
South Coast maps the region, sets it in its outdoor activities is found in Travellers’ Needs.
historical and cultural context, and describes The Survival Guide has advice on every thing
events through the entire year. England’s from visas, personal security and health to
South Coast Region by Region is the main getting around, money and communications.

England’s South Coast
ENGLAND’S Region by Region
SOUTH COAST
REGION BY England’s South Coast has been
REGION divided into six regions, each with
a separate chapter. The most
England’s South Coast
at a Glance 40–41 interesting places to visit have
London 42–63
Kent and Sussex 64–87 been numbered on a Regional Map
Hampshire and
Salisbury Plain 88–107 at the beginning of each chapter.
Dorset and Somerset 108–131
Devon 132–151
Cornwall 152–169
Introduction
1The landscape, history and
character of each region is
described here, showing
how the area has developed
over the centuries and what
it offers the visitor today.
90  ENGLAND ’ S SOUTH C O AST REGION B Y REGION HA MPSHIRE AND SALISBUR Y PLAIN  91
Exploring Hampshire and Rail services run through major
Getting Around
Salisbury Plain destinations, including towns in the
towns and some smaller
The counties of Hampshire and Wiltshire offer a great range of scenery. In eastern New Forest. Regional buses run
Hampshire, country lanes wind along wooded valleys, such as those of the Test and mainly from Winchester, Salisbury
the Itchen, and weave between villages and unusual features such as the sudden and Southampton. Local buses are
infrequent elsewhere, so you
ravines of the “Hangers”. Southampton, Portsmouth and their will need a car to explore rural
Regional Map neighbouring coastal towns make up the region’s most Cerney South Cirencester into this region from London – the
areas. Two major motorways run
populated area, from where ferries run to the Isle of Wight.
M4, running west across the top
The nearby New Forest is much loved by walkers and
pony riders. Further north, the majestic spire of Tetbury Cricklade Highworth of Salisbury Plain, and the M3,
2This shows the road network Salisbury Cathedral can be seen from the rolling Malmesbury which runs south to Winchester and
Southampton. The often-congested
grasslands of Salisbury Plain, on which stand
M27 connects Portsmouth,
the prehistoric sites of Stonehenge and
Swindon
and airports and gives an Avebury. In the northwest, the downs Combe Castle Badminton Chippenham Wootton Lyneham Wroughton Aldbourne Lambourn Purple heather in bloom in the New Forest National Park Southampton and the New Forest.
Bassett
give way to honey-stoned towns such
as Corsham and Bradford-on-Avon.
overview of the entire region. Sights at a Glance CORSHAM LACOCK BOWOOD Kennet and Avon Canal Kennet Hungerford Thatcham Theale Aldermaston Reading
AVEBURY
HOUSE
Newbury
Wokingham
Box
All the sights are numbered 1 Chawton Bath BRADFORD- WILTSHIRE Burbage Shalbourne Kingsclere Tadley Hartley Sandhurst Camberley Frimley Key Motorway
DEVIZES
2 Selborne and the Hangers
ON-AVON
Wintney
3 Winchester pp92–3
Pewsey
4 Portsmouth Trowbridge Upavon Basingstoke Hook Fleet Farnborough Dual carriageway
here and there are also useful 5 Southampton Beckington Westbury Tilshead Salisbur y Thruxton Ludgershall Whitchurch HAMPSHIRE Odiham Farnham Aldershot Other road
Main road
Overton
6 Isle of Wight p95
Plain
Frome
Andover
7 Romsey
Railway
Warminster
tips on getting around. 8 Beaulieu LONGLEAT Longbridge STONEHENGE Amesbury Middle Wallop Test Sutton Scotney CHAWTON Alton Hindhead County border
9 Lymington
Maiden
Bradley
Deverill
0 New Forest p97
q Salisbury pp100–101 OLD SARUM Stockbridge Worthy Kings SELBORNE AND THE Bordon
w Stonehenge pp102–3 STOURHEAD New HANGERS
e Old Sarum Mere East Knoyle SALISBURY WINCHESTER Alresford Liss Fernhurst Liphook
r Avebury Gillingham Alderbury
t Bowood House Swallowcliffe Avon Petersfield
y Devizes Shaftesbury ROMSEY Eastleigh Itchen Twyford West Meon Midhurst
Bishop's
Waltham
Sights at a Glance lists all the u Lacock Sturminster Fordingbridge Cadnam Totton SOUTHAMPTON Wickham Clanfield Horndean
i Corsham
Newton
o Bradford-on-Avon
chapter’s sights, following the p Longleat 0 kilometres 10 10 Stour Blandford NEW FOREST Lyndhurst Hythe Fawley Fareham Waterlooville Havant
a Stourhead pp106–7
0 miles
Forum
Verwood
Ferndown Ringwood Brockenhurst BEAULIEU PORTSMOUTH
numbering on the Regional Map. Hurn LYMINGTON Gosport South Hayling
T h e S o l e n t
Cowes Ryde
Wootton
Christchurch Yarmouth Newport Bembridge
Poole Freshwater
Bay ISLE OF
The WIGHT Sandown
Needles Brighstone Godshill
Chale Ventnor
St. Catherine’s Niton
Point
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f Street-by-Street: Brighton The Theatre Royal, one of England’s VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
most historic theatres, opened in 1807. The chalk Needles and Trinity Lighthouse, the Isle of Wight’s most famous landmarks The majestic 13th-century Salisbury Cathedral
It often presents first performances of
Practical Information
Brighton Museum and
As the nearest South Coast resort to London, Brighton is The Old Ship Hotel, built in new plays before they move to the For hotels and restaurants in this region see pp176–7 and pp186–8 For additional map symbols see back flap
perennially popular, but has always been more sophisticated 1559, was later bought by West End in London. Art Gallery Brighton, East Sussex. Map D2.
* 280,000. n Brighton Centre,
Nicholas Tettersells with the
than brash neighbours such as Margate. Brighton has famously money given to him by Charles II King’s Rd; 01273 290337. (
attracted actors and artists, and the spirit of the Prince Regent as a reward for helping him _ International Arts Festival: May.
lives on, not only in the magnificence of his Royal Pavilion, escape to the safety of France ∑ visitbrighton.com
but in the city’s buzzing nightlife, unusual shops, thriving gay Transport
during the Civil War (see p36).
community and progressive politics – Brighton has Britain’s 3 Brighton. @ Pool Valley.
only Green Member of Parliament. C H U R C H S T R E E T
i360 A suggested route for a walk is
Inaugurated in 2016, this B L A C K L I O N S T R E E T A L B E R T S T R E E T
breathtaking “vertical cable N O R T H S T R E E T
car” is a sleek glass pod that shown with a dotted red line.
rises 137 m (450 ft) up a giant
silver needle to provide i360 P R I N C E
superb 360° vistas. At the
foot of the needle is a fine
beachside restaurant, and K I N G ’ S R O A D G R A N D P A R A D E
inside the pod is the “Skybar”, Brighton Dome
where visitors can enjoy an
array of locally sourced Built as the stables of the Royal Pavilion,
drinks. The Skybar is also this Indian-style domed building is now
E A S T S T R E E T
Brighton’s i360 observation tower open at night for a unique O L D S T E I N E a concert hall and arts venue.
view of the stars over the sea.
Brighton Museum G R A N D J U N C T I O N R O A D O L D S T E I N E Stars indicate the sights that
and Art Gallery no visitor should miss.
This lovely museum and
art gallery has wonderfully
varied exhibits ranging
from seaside souvenirs to M A R I N E P A R A D E
refined modern art.
. Royal Pavilion
M A D E I R A D R I V E
A lavish mix of Indian, Islamic and Chinese styles, Street-by-Street Map
constructed with British materials, the Prince Regent’s
The Sea Life Centre is the fantastic Oriental pleasure palace helped make
Brighton a fashionable resort.
oldest continually operating
aquarium in the world. It first A259 The 3This gives a bird’s-eye view
opened in 1872, and now hosts The Lanes Lanes NORTH ST
modern exhibits on marine life, UNION ST
including a shark pool. SHIP STREET LANE NORTH STREET English of a key area covered in the
. Brighton Pier LANE BLACK LION PRINCE ALBERT STREET MEETING HOUSE MEETING Channel Brighton Pier ST JAMES’S ST MADEIRA DR
Opened in 1899, HOUSE LN BRIGHTON PLACE chapter. The numbered sights
this typical Victorian BLACK LION STREET NILE STREET
seaside pier now Pavilion Gardens
caters for modern MARKET STREET
visitors with arcade MARKET ST Royal have fuller descriptions on
games, restaurants BAR THOLOMEWS Pavilion
and great funfair rides. EAST STREET
The Lanes BART HOLOMEWS
Key A maze of independent shops today, the CA STLE SQUARE 0 metres 100 the pages that follow.
0 metres 100 Lanes were the original streets of the fishing E AST STREET
0 yards 100 Suggested route village of Brighthelmstone (see p37). 0 yards 100
For hotels and restaurants in this region see pp174–5 and pp185–6
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