Uk Holiday - Any Suggestions?

[lynbrown]

Last year we had a good week in Bath. We would like somewhere else for 2016. We live in Scotland and would have to travel by train, so nowhere in the sticks please! I would like a place with a bit of history, maybe a historical stately home, places for day trips. Any advice?

[horseshoes]

I'll say Liverpool too.

[mikey4444]

The Scillies are wonderful, but not so easy to visit now that the helicopter from Penzance is finished. The sea crossing can be awful.

Also if the weather is bad, there is very little to do on the Islands. But if the weather is good, than Tresco Abbey Gardens are wonderful....like Kew Gardens but no roof !

[joggerjayne]

Why, Brighton, of course.

[jno]

there's always something happening in Brighton

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It doesn't sound safe to me.

[atalanta]

Harrogate

[-SharonA-]

London is the place to be seen

[DaisyNonna]

Who wants to be seen?

[-SharonA-]

Everybody!

[DaisyNonna]

I don't

[lynbrown]

We are having a couple of nights in Birmingham then a few more in Oxford.

[hellywelly4]

Whitby

[Jackdaw33]

If you are staying in Birmingham take time to visit Worcester, especially the cathedral and The Shambles (similar to those in York). Also Malvern and the Winter Gardens and perhaps Hereford. The direct line from Birmingham to Hereford serves all three places.

[mazie]

Stratford upon Avon. http://www.visitstratforduponavon.co.uk/

[Jackdaw33]

Yes, again easily accessible from Birmingham.

[gingejbee]

Too late....she's already decided (17.58 post)...

[maggiebee]

Agree with saladdodger- York and Chester are both great holiday destinations. Have a friend who swears by Northumberland and goes at least twice a year from Scotland.

[Jackdaw33]

The only problem with Northumberland (my neck of the woods) is that most of it is fairly inaccessible without a car. If going by train you would have to disembark at either Newcastle or Berwick (although there are limited services to Morpeth and Alnmouth). If, for example, you wished to visit the little church at Throckmorton where Emily Davison (she who flung herself under the king's horse) is buried, it would be impossible without a car. Actually it is sometimes impossible even with a car, as the last time I went there half way up the track my path was blocked by a herd of cows who looked suspiciously at me and refused to move, no matter how many times I blasted my horn.