Page 16 - (DK Eyewitness) Travel Guide - London

14  INTRODUCING L ONDON
Chesterfield Lincoln
Mansfield
Putting London on the Map Newark-on-
Trent
Boston
London, the capital of the United Kingdom, is a city of over Nottingham T he
eight million people covering 1,606 sq km (620 sq miles) of Derby Wash
southeast England. It is built on the River Thames and is at the Welland
centre of the UK’s road and rail networks. From London visitors Spalding
can easily reach the UK’s other main tourist attractions.
Loughborough
T he Fens
Western Europe NORWAY Coalville Wisbech
SWEDEN
Nor th Leicester March
Sea DENMARK Peterborough
UNITED
KINGDOM Nuneaton
Corby
REP. OF
IRELAND NETHERLANDS POLAND
London GERMANY Ely
BELGIUM Coventry
CZECH Kettering
REPUBLIC
SLOVAKIA Cam
Wellingborough
AUSTRIA HUNGARY Warwick
Atlantic FRANCE SWITZ. SLOV.
Ocean CROATIA Northampton Cambridge
BOSNIA SERBIA
HERZ.
ITALY Stratford-
MONTEN. KOS. on-Avon Bedford Haverhill Ipswich
MAC.
ALBANIA Sudbury
PORTUGAL
SP AIN GREECE Banbury Milton Stour
Keynes Letchworth Nor th
Stansted Harwich Sea
Stevenage Airport Braintree
Luton Colchester
Luton Airport
Evenlode
Gloucester Clacton-on-Sea
Abergavenny C o t s w o l d s Aylesbury St. Albans Harlow Chelmsford Black water
Stroud Oxford Hook of Holland,
Esbjerg
Cirencester Thames See inset map above
Severn High Wycombe Rayleigh
Pontypool Abingdon Brentwood
London City Basildon
Henley-on- Airport Southend-on-Sea
Newport Swindon Thames Slough Thames
LONDON Grays Sheerness
Reading Gravesend Herne Margate
Cardiff Bristol Chippenham Kennet Newbury Heathrow Gillingham Sittingbourne Bay Ramsgate
Airport
Barry Kennet and Avon Canal Camberley Canterbury
Bath W ey
Weston-super- N o r t h D ow n s
Mare Basingstoke Maidstone Deal
Salisbur y Aldershot Medway
Frome Plain Andover Farnham Guildford Dover Oostende
Gatwick Royal Ashford
Test Airport Tunbridge Wells
Bridgwater Folkestone
Horsham Crawley Channel Tunnel Calais
Winchester T h e Weald
Salisbury Petersfield Arun Rother
Taunton Rother Uckfield
Avon Itchen
Yeovil Strait of Dover
Waterlooville S o u t h D o w n s Hailsham Hastings
New Forest Southampton Havant Bexhill
Nor th Dor set Ringwood Brighton Newhaven
Stour
Downs Worthing Eastbourne Boulogne-sur-Mer
Honiton Portsmouth
Bognor
Poole Christchurch Regis FRANCE
Dorchester Frome Bournemouth Isle of
Purbeck Hills Poole Wight le Touquet-
Bay
Weymouth Paris-Plage
Weymouth
Bay E n g l i s h C h a n n e l
Le Havre,
Channel Islands, Bilbao, Caen, St Malo,
St Malo Cherbourg Santander Cherbourg Dieppe
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