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  • TravelerUK Insight Tour 2023
    Day 1

    Stratford upon Avon

    July 9, 2023 in England ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C

    Birthplace of Shakespeare in 1564.
    He died in 1616.
    Married Anne Hathaway.
    Architecture is predominantly Tudor style.
    The original house was owned by William's father John since 1552.
    John was a renowned glove maker which took 7 years to become qualified. He was obviously successful as Shakespeare's house was considered grand for its time.Read more

  • TravelerUK Insight Tour 2023
    Day 1

    Stratford upon Avon (2)

    July 9, 2023 in England ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C

    Throughout the old town of Stratford after exiting Shakespeare's original family house.

    Stratford-upon-Avon (/-ˈeɪvən/), commonly known as just Stratford, is a market town and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon district, in the county of Warwickshire,[2] in the West Midlands region of England. It is situated on the River Avon, 91 miles (146 km) north-west of London, 22 miles (35 km) south-east of Birmingham and 8 miles (13 km) south-west of Warwick.[3] The town is the southernmost point of the Arden area on the edge of the Cotswolds.[4] In the 2021 census Stratford had a population of 30,495.[5]Read more

  • TravelerUK Insight Tour 2023
    Day 1

    York - England (1)

    July 9, 2023 in England ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C

    York Castle is a fortified complex in the city of York, England. It consists of a sequence of castles, prisons, law courts and other buildings, which were built over the last nine centuries on the south side of the River Foss. The now ruined keep of the medieval Norman castle is commonly referred to as Clifford's Tower. Built originally on the orders of William I to dominate the former Viking city of Jórvík, the castle suffered a tumultuous early history before developing into a major fortification with extensive water defences.

    Margaret Clitherow (1556 – 25 March 1586) was an English saint and martyr of the Roman Catholic Church,[2] known as "the Pearl of York". She was pressed to death for refusing to enter a plea to the charge of harbouring Catholic priests. She was canonised in 1970 by Pope Paul VI.

    Guy Fawkes

    Guy took the name Guido during his time in Spain.

    1570AD - 1606AD

    On 5th November 1605 a York man, Guy Fawkes, was discovered about to ignite 36 barrels of gunpowder underneath the Houses of Parliament.  His aim was to spark a Catholic revolution.    Read more

  • TravelerUK Insight Tour 2023
    Day 1

    York - England (2)

    July 9, 2023 in England ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C

    Golden Fleece, York

    The Golden Fleece is an inn in York, England, which has a free house pub on the ground floor and four guest bedrooms above. It dates back to at least the early 16th century, and claims to be the most haunted public house in York.

    The Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Saint Peter in York, commonly known as York Minster, is the cathedral of York, North Yorkshire, England, and is one of the largest of its kind in Northern Europe. The minster is the seat of the Archbishop of York, the third-highest office of the Church of England (after the monarch as Supreme Governor and the Archbishop of Canterbury), and is the mother church for the Diocese of York     Read more

  • TravelerUK Insight Tour 2023
    Day 2

    Durham - England

    July 10, 2023 in England ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C

    Durham is a city in northeast England, south of Newcastle upon Tyne. The River Wear loops around the Romanesque Durham Cathedral and Norman Durham Castle. North of the castle, 13th-century, medieval Crook Hall is home to gardens and a maze. South of the river, Durham University offers a Botanic Garden with woodland and tropical plants, and the Oriental Museum exhibiting Asian, Egyptian and Middle Eastern artefacts.Read more

  • TravelerUK Insight Tour 2023
    Day 2

    Hadrians Wall & Angel of North

    July 10, 2023 in England ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C

    Hadrian's Wall

    Hadrian's Wall (Latin: Vallum Aelium), also known as the Roman Wall, Picts' Wall, or Vallum Hadriani in Latin, is a former defensive fortification of the Roman province of Britannia, begun in AD 122 in the reign of the Emperor Hadrian. Running from Wallsend on the River Tyne in the east to Bowness-on-Solway in the west of what is now northern England, it was a stone wall with large ditches in front of it and behind it that crossed the whole width of the island. Soldiers were garrisoned along the line of the wall in large forts, smaller milecastles and intervening turrets. In addition to the wall's defensive military role, its gates may have been customs posts.

    Hadrian's Wall

    The location of Hadrian's Wall in what is now northern England, and the later Antonine Wall in what is now the Central Belt of Scotland

    LocationNorthern EnglandCoordinates55°01′27″N 2°17′33″WLength73 miles (117 km)Built122 ADBuilt forHadrianVisitors100,000+ annuallyGoverning bodyHistoric EnglandOwnerVarious private and public ownerships

    Angel of the North

    This article is about the sculpture. For the Finnish film, see Angel of the North (film).

    The Angel of the North is a contemporary sculpture by Antony Gormley, located in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England. Completed in 1998, it is believed to be the largest sculpture of an angel in the world and is viewed by an estimated 33 million people every year due to its proximity to the A1 and A167 roads and the East Coast Main Line.[1][2] The design of the Angel, like many of Gormley's works, is based on Gormley's own body. The COR-TEN weathering steel material gives the sculpture its distinctive rusty, oxidised colour. It stands 20 metres (66 ft) tall with a wingspan of 54 metres (177 ft), larger than that of a Boeing 757 aircraft. The vertical ribs on its body and wings act as an external skeleton which direct oncoming wind to the sculpture's foundations, allowing it to withstand wind speeds of over 100 miles per hour (160 km/h).    Read more

  • TravelerUK Insight Tour 2023
    Day 2

    Edinburgh - (1)

    July 10, 2023 in Scotland ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C

    Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas. The city was historically part of the county of Midlothian (formally called the "county of Edinburgh" or Edinburghshire until 1947), but was administered separately from the surrounding county from 1482. It is located in Lothian on the southern shore of the Firth of Forth. Edinburgh is Scotland's second-most populous city, after Glasgow, and the seventh-most populous city in the United Kingdom.Read more

  • TravelerUK Insight Tour 2023
    Day 3

    Edinburgh Castle

    July 11, 2023 in Scotland ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C

    Edinburgh Castle is a historic castle in Edinburgh, Scotland. It stands on Castle Rock, which has been occupied by humans since at least the Iron Age, although the nature of the early settlement is unclear. There has been a royal castle on the rock since at least the reign of David I in the 12th century, and the site continued to be a royal residence until 1633. From the 15th century, the castle's residential role declined, and by the 17th century it was principally used as military barracks with a large garrison. Its importance as a part of Scotland's national heritage was recognised increasingly from the early 19th century onwards, and various restoration programmes have been carried out over the past century and a half.Read more

  • TravelerUK Insight Tour 2023
    Day 3

    Edinburgh - (2)

    July 11, 2023 in Scotland ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C

    Greyfriars Bobby (4 May 1855 – 14 January 1872) was a Skye Terrier or Dandie Dinmont Terrier[1] who became known in 19th-century Edinburgh for spending 14 years guarding the grave of his owner until he died on 14 January 1872. The story continues to be well known in Scotland, through several books and films. A prominent commemorative statue and nearby graves are a tourist attraction.

    The Witchery by the Castle is a restaurant on the Royal Mile near Edinburgh Castle which also provides bed and breakfast accommodation.
    The building is Boswell's Court which was built in 1595 for merchant Thomas Lowthian and subsequently named after John Boswell – an eccentric physician who lived there and entertained his nephew James Boswell and Dr Johnson.The building was later used as an office and rectory for the Church of Scotland.t is said to be haunted by one of the thousand people who were burned for witchcraft on Castlehill in 15th and 16th centuries.The eight bedroom suites are furnished in a Gothic style with oak panelling, tapestries and antique features.    Read more

  • TravelerUK Insight Tour 2023
    Day 4

    Blair Castle at Blair Athol

    July 12, 2023 in Scotland ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C

    Blair Castle (in Scottish Gaelic: Caisteil Bhlàir) stands in its grounds near the village of Blair Atholl in Perthshire in Scotland. It is the ancestral home of the Clan Murray, and was historically the seat of their chief, the Duke of Atholl, though the current (12th) Duke, Bruce Murray, lives in South Africa. The castle stands in Glen Garry, and commands a strategic position on the main route (now the A9 road) through the central Scottish Highlands.Read more

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