England packs an extraordinary amount into a small space: London's museums and theatres, the honey-stone villages of the Cotswolds, Roman Bath, medieval York, the fells of the Lake District, Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain and a coastline that runs from the Jurassic cliffs of Dorset to the surf beaches of Cornwall and the wide skies of Norfolk. Nine travel regions cover it, and almost all of them are within a few hours of each other by train.
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England by region
VisitBritain's own regional grid.
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London One of the world's great cities, and a country's worth of things to do -
South East England Windsor, Oxford, cathedral cities and the white cliffs -
South West England Stonehenge, Georgian Bath, Jurassic cliffs and the Cornish coast -
East of England Cambridge, the Broads, big skies and a quiet coast -
East Midlands The Peak District, Sherwood Forest and stately-home country -
West Midlands Shakespeare's town, Ironbridge and Birmingham's canals -
Yorkshire & The Humber Two national parks, a walled medieval city and the Brontë moors -
North West England The Lake District, the Beatles' Liverpool and Manchester's music -
North East England Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland's castles and empty beaches
Headline destinations
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Stonehenge The most famous prehistoric monument in Europe, on Salisbury Plain -
The Cotswolds Honey-coloured villages, dry-stone walls and rolling green hills - Lake District Glassy lakes and craggy fells — England's most beloved landscape
- Cornwall & the Isles of Scilly Surf beaches, fishing harbours and the far southwest tip
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Jurassic Coast 185 million years of rock in 95 miles — a natural UNESCO site -
Dartmoor & Exmoor Two moorland national parks — tors, ponies and dark skies -
Peak District Britain's first national park — gritstone edges and limestone dales -
Yorkshire Dales Green valleys, drystone walls and the Three Peaks -
North York Moors Heather moorland running to a cliff-lined coast -
Northumberland Hadrian's Wall, castle beaches and England's darkest skies -
The Broads 125 miles of navigable waterway through reedbeds and windmills -
South Downs Chalk downland from Winchester to the Seven Sisters -
New Forest Ancient royal hunting forest, and ponies with right of way -
Isle of Wight The Needles, Osborne House and sailing at Cowes -
Windsor The oldest occupied castle in the world, half an hour from London -
Stratford-upon-Avon Shakespeare's birthplace and the Royal Shakespeare Theatre -
Chester Complete Roman walls and the medieval Rows -
Durham A Norman cathedral and castle in a loop of the River Wear -
Kent The Garden of England — Canterbury, castles and the white cliffs
Cities
- London Two thousand years of city, and the free museums to prove it
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Coming soon Manchester Music, football and red-brick reinvention -
Coming soon Liverpool The Beatles, two cathedrals and a waterfront built on world trade -
Coming soon Birmingham More canals than Venice, the Balti Triangle and the 2026 Commonwealth Games -
Coming soon Leeds Victorian arcades, a serious night out and the Dales on the doorstep -
Coming soon Newcastle upon Tyne Seven bridges, the Baltic, and Hadrian's Wall up the road -
Coming soon Bristol Brunel's bridge, Banksy's walls and the best street food in the West -
Coming soon Brighton Pier, pebbles, the Lanes and a Regency palace that thinks it's in India -
Coming soon Bath Roman baths under Georgian crescents — the whole city is a UNESCO site -
Coming soon York A walled medieval city with a vast Minster and the Shambles -
Coming soon Oxford The dreaming spires, and colleges you can actually walk into -
Coming soon Cambridge King's College Chapel, the Backs and punting on the Cam
