Britain's first national park, the Peak District, fills the region's northwest with gritstone edges, limestone dales and walking straight out of the towns. Around it: Chatsworth and Burghley among England's grandest stately homes, Robin Hood's Sherwood Forest, Lincoln's cathedral on its hill, and Nottingham, Derby and Leicester — where Richard III was found under a car park.
- The Peak District — Britain's first national park
- Chatsworth House and the Derbyshire Dales
- Sherwood Forest and the Major Oak
- Lincoln Cathedral and the medieval Bailgate
- Nottingham's caves and Leicester's Richard III story
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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 -
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