The "Country Living" Guide to Rural England: The South ("Country Living" Rural Guides) - Softcover

Billing, Joanna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1902007727 ISBN 13: 9781902007724

Publisher: Travel Publishing Ltd, 2001

Synopsis

The guide takes the reader on a relaxed tour of East Anglia's many pleasant villages and market towns, pointing out the attractive features of its varied countryside and coastline, as well as describing the region's history, heritage, culture and places of interest. The guide also provides readers with information on a carefully selected number of places to stay, eat, drink and shop.

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Review

"It is an excellent guide covering places to see, eat, drink and
visit in this spectacular part of the country!" -- Essex Life & Countryside Magazine

Synopsis

One of 10 rural guides published in conjunction with Country Living which will eventually cover the whole of the UK & Ireland. The Country Living Rural guide to The South is full of information on the traditional English countryside in Dorset, Hampshire, The Isle of Wight, The Chilterns, The Thames Valley, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire. The guide takes the reader on a relaxed tour of Southern England's many pleasant villages and market towns, pointing out the attractive features of its varied countryside and coastline as well as describing the region's history, heritage, culture and places of interest. The guide is packed with information on places to go, what to do and see, where to stay, where to eat and where to buy.From the Southernmost tip of The Isle of Wight to the northern tip of Bedfordshire and spanning west to Gloucestershire this is a region with a vast array of contrasts. To the south lies Dorset, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, an area blessed with an impressive coastline, complemented by the beautiful countryside. This is a region that offers the visitor a variety of pretty picturesque villages and has a wonderful combination of seafaring traditions.

Moving further inland The Chilterns comprises the counties of Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire, a region that has a rich combination of chalk grassland and beech and bluebell woods, with the finest stretches now protected as national nature reserves. Equally, the surrounding counties of Oxfordshire and Berkshire contain many beautiful brick and flint villages, innumerable meandering streams and rivers and a host of impressive houses, gardens and places of historic interest. Wiltshire is famous for Salisbury Plain a desolate landscape of large open space and long stretching hills, a landscape that hasn't changed in thousands of years. It is particularly rich in monuments of prehistoric man, including the great and ancient stone circles such as Stonehenge. It is also famed for its intriguing crop circles and mysterious supernatural myths. Gloucestershire is a county of outstanding beauty offering the visitor gentle slopes and the pretty stone villages of the Cotswolds.The guide will definitely appeal to people with a real interest in the beauty, tranquillity and traditional values of the countryside, who are looking for high standards in places to stay, eat and drink and quality craftsmanship in any products purchased.

Equally for those readers who are seeking a more active life in the countryside the book provides information on walks and tours as well as details of National Trust and English Heritage properties.

Edition details

• Publisher: Travel Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1902007727
• ISBN 13: 9781902007724
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300