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A journey across the UK
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England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland are further
divided into counties
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How to get to Great Britain
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DOVER

• Closest point to France
• White cliffs of Dover first sight if coming by
  ferry chalk
• Dover castle the key to England

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Canterbury
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Canterbury

• Canterbury cathedral
• Seat of the Archbishop head of the Church of
  England
• Thomas Beckett murdered here
• Geoffery Chaucer Canterbury Tales

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University towns Oxford and Cambridge
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College
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Cambridge

• The name a bridge over the river Cam
• The university is made up of 31 colleges
• The most important building Kings College
  Chapel
• Punts small flat-bottomed boats, poled along
• Famous scientists Newton, Darwin, ..Stephen
  Hawking

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Windsor castle

• One of the official residences of the British
  monarch
• Largest inhabited castle in the world
• Dating back to the times of William the Conqueror

• 1992 a fire destroyed big part of the castle
• Successful restoration five years, not paid
  from taxes

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Stradford-upon-Avon

• The second most visited town in England.
• Birthplace of W. Shakespeare
• The house were he was born his grave the school
  he went to
• Half-timbered medieval houses
• Royal Shakespeare Theatre,the Swan theatre

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Stradfort-upon-Avon
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Shakespeares birthplace
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Stonehenge
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Stonehenge reasons for existence

• The world's best-known megalithic site.
• Situated in Salisbury plain
• June 21 - summer solstice festival
• Theories Druids place for worshipping
• Religious site sacrifices
• Astronomical observatory

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Lake District
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Lake District
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Lake District

• One of 5 national parks certain restrictions,
  but popular for water sports
• Lake poets W. Wordsworth, S.T. Coleridge,
  celebrated the beauty of nature
• Other writers P.B. Shelley, W. Scott and
  artists

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Hadrians wall
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Edinburgh
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Edinburgh

• On the UNESCO World Heritage list
• Annual festival in August collection of several
  festivals
• (Fringe Festival, film festival, Edinburg
  Military Tatoo)

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Highlands
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Loch Ness monster exists
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Highland games
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Giant Causeway

• 40,000 basalt
• columns, descending
• into the sea
• They form a staircase
• Formed by lava
• Legend about a giant

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Wales land of castles
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and national parks
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Welsh