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Bath provides the perfect English getaway. This is a genteel city soaked in history, which has kept its stiff upper lip but learned how to relax with a cocktail, too.

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Belfast is back. The Northern Irish capital has had a makeover, put the tough times behind her and is stepping out in style from behind Dublin's shadow.

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For fine eateries, picturesque countryside and fascinating heritage, the Royal County of Berkshire is hard to beat.

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In these peaceful and unspoilt uplands, blessed with spellbinding natural beauty and watermarked with Celtic legends, the mind, the body and the spirit can all be revived and renewed.

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Forget kiss-me-quick hats and candyfloss on Palace Pier – with its pretty, terraced squares, Brighton gives Bath a run for its Regency money.

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Bristol is a great metropolis without the stress. There are friendly bars, amazing restaurants, and a cleaned-up harbourside with art galleries and many a bar-with-a-view.

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Cardigan Bay, like the knitwear of the same name, is a comfy-cosy, sit-back-and-put-your-feet-up kind of place. But that’s not to say the area lacks drama.

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With its sweeping sandy coastline, verdant-valleyed interior and tale-telling locals, Carmarthen Bay has all the raw materials needed for ‘iconic destination’ status.

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With its soft sand beaches, hot summer sun and spectacularly noisy waves, Cornwall is the stuff of perfect childhood holidays.

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More typically English than a bowler-hatted Bertie Wooster whistling Elgar, this chunk of gently undulating and seemingly evergreen countryside is enough to send Anglophile tourists into apoplexy.

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Devon is the stuff of childhood dreams. Sun-kissed beaches and quiet little coves hark back to a time when all you needed for a day of unbridled pleasure was a bucket and spade, acres of silver sand and the promise of an ice-cream before bed.

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Dorset is a tale of two landscapes: the chalky downlands of Cranborne Chase and the Purbeck Hills, with their pretty villages and grand houses; and the wild, adventure-friendly Jurassic Coast, rebranded but untamed.

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The gorgeous East Sussex coast has always attracted crowds; in the height of summer, you may have to fight your way onto the beaches, just as the Romans and Normans once did.

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If Scotland’s first city had a front door, it would come with a huge ‘Welcome’ mat.

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If character and personality won prizes, Glasgow would be rightfully awarded the attention normally showered on the more obviously beautiful Edinburgh.

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Gloucestershire, with its picture-postcard English towns and countryside, is perfect for a romantic weekend.

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There's more to Harrogate than Bettys tea rooms and Farrah's toffee; as well as being a green-fingered garden of earthly delights and heritage spa destination, it's the gateway to the beautiful Yorkshire Dales.

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Cumbria’s dramatic, brooding landscape has inspired creative souls for centuries: poet William Wordsworth penned many of his most famous works in the Lake District, and it’s where Beatrix Potter settled with her beloved flock of Herdwick sheep.

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This stately old lady on the banks of the Mersey may have celebrated her 800th birthday, but she’s enjoying an invigorating shake-up these days…

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England's capital has got it all. And she flaunts it.

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Mancunians may be too down-to-earth to say it themselves, but the capital of the northwest has come over all Manhattanchester.

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The famous Broads, the wild and wonder-filled beaches, the huge skies: Norfolk is a remote and inspiring corner of England, just a couple of hours from London.

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A delicious combination of chocolate-box villages, undulating hills and elegant cities (Bath and Wells), Somerset is the sort of place where honey-laden bees buzz lazily through orchards, perhaps pausing on a fallen apple.

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Tradition and new ideas combine in Oxfordshire to create the best of all worlds.

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The sheer size and scale of the Peak District makes for much of its mystery. Stretched across northern Derbyshire and rolling into a handful of other counties, it comprises 555 square miles of moors and uplands, dramatic views and drystone walls, plus pubs and tearooms aplenty.

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Flat as a pint of Adnams left in the sun, evocative East Anglia has more in common, topographically at least, with just-across-the-North-Sea Netherlands than the hilly counties to the west.

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In Wales, they say a little bit of everything never did anyone any harm – and diversity is what you’ll get in spades in the Vale of Glamorgan.

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The sleepy green counterpoint to southern England’s metropolitan madness.

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With the cathedral city of Chichester providing its meanest seaside streets, West Sussex is a green and pleasant county, where seasons and hills roll gently, all against the ever-shifting backdrop of the sea.

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The Scottish Highlands: unlike anywhere else on earth.

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Ancient capital of what Yorkshiremen refer to as ‘God’s own county’, the city of York is one of England’s finest and most atmospheric mediaeval centres.

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