This page provides a list of the main things to see in Britain. "++"
identifies the top attractions.
Also see this page on architecture.
Southern England
- Winchester: ++Cathedral (1079)
- Chichester: -cathedral
- Arundel: Castle
- Brighton: +John Nash's Royal Pavillion (1823), Palace pier
- Bodiam castle
- Rye: +Ypres tower, Land gate
- Canterbury: +Cathedral (1130) with +chancel of 1184
- Aylesford: +Leeds Castle (not in Leeds but in Aylesford)
- Leeds: Town Hall (1859)
- Ely: cathedral
- Blickling Hall
- Norwich: +Cathedral (12th c), Denys Lasdun's Univ of East Anglia (1968)
- Bury St Edmunds, St Mary's Church
- Audley End
- Cambridge: Bridge of sighs, Trinity College, +King's College Chapel (16th c), St John's College, Queen's College, +Holy Sepulchre or Round Church (1130)
- Near Cambridge: Castle Hedingham (1140)
- Thorpeness: House in the Clouds (1923)
- Petworth: Great house
- Rochester: +Cathedral (13th c), +Castle/donjon of 1130
- Salisbury: ++Cathedral (1220), Wilton House, Stourhead garden
- Stonehenge: ++Megaliths
- Avebury (near Stonehenge): megaliths, stone circle, +Silbury Hill (largest neolithic mound in Western Europe)
- Warwick: +St Mary's, +Castle
- Stratford-upon-Avon
- Chipping Campden: old houses
- Wells: +Cathedral (1180) with curvilinear arches and Lady Chapel's vault
- Lutyens' Tigbourne Court, Surrey (1898)
- Bath: Roman baths of 75BC, Royal Crescent, Pulteney Bridge, +Bath Abbey, Great Bath
- Bradford on Avon: St Laurence's church (975)
- Bristol: St Mary Redcliffe (13th c)
- Suffolk: Ickworth palace (1830), House in the Clouds in Thorpeness
- Philip Webb's Red House, Bexley Heath, Kent (1859)
- Cornwall: +St Michael's Mount
- Dorchester: Montacute House (1600)
- Exeter: cathedral (1328)
- Glastonbury: ruins of abbey
- Gloucester: cathedral (1370): south walk of cloister, arches of the nave
- Greenwich: Wren's Royal Naval Hospital (1716) and Jones' Queen's House (1635)
- Knole mansion
London
- +St Paul's Cathedral (1675-1710)
- Tower of London
- Tower Bridge
- Trafalgar Square
- +National Gallery
- ++British Museum
- ++Houses of Parliament
- +Big Ben
- ++Westminster Abbey
- Tate Gallery
- Buckingham Palace
- Piccadilly Circus with Alfred Gilbert's Eros Fountain
- 400 Oxford Street: Alfred Gilbert's clock on Selfridges
- Hyde Park
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- +National Maritime Museum
- Elephant and Castle Eco-Tower
- Heron Tower (2006)
- Waterloo Station (1993)
- Swiss Re (2003) now Gherkin Building
- Moorhouse on London Wall & Moorgate (2004)
- Canary Wharf Tower (1991)
- Lloyds Building (1978)
- Millennium Dome (1999)
- Millennium Bridge (2000)
- Leadenhall Tower
- Architecture Foundation (Southwark Street and Great Guildford Street),
- Swiss Re (St Mary Axe & Camonile),
- Moorhouse (London Wall & Moorgate),
- Westminster Cathedral (1903) with Eric Gill's sculpture "14 Stations of the Cross "
- Houses of Parliament (1840)
- Home House (1775)
- St Martin-in-the-fields (1721)
- Barlow's St Pancras Station (1868)
- Christ Church at Spitalfields (1729)
- Banqueting House (1619-22) in Whitehall,
- Post Office Tower at 60 Cleveland Street (1965)
- City Hall
- Southwest London: +Hampton Court Palace
- West of London: Palm House in the Royal Botanical Gardens
- St Pancras Renaissance Hotel (and grand staircase) at St Pancras Station
Wales
- Abergele: Gwrych Castle
- Aberystwyth: University College (1864)
- Beaumaris: Castle
- Caernarfon: +Castle
- Caerphilly: Castle
- Cardiff: +Castle
- Conwy: +Castle
- Harlech: Castle
- Pembroke: +Castle
- St David's: +Cathedral
- Tintern: +Abbey
Central England
- Hertfordshire (north of London): Henry Moore Foundation
- Birmingham, Central England: City Museum
- Coventry, St Michael's (1962)
- Lichfield: +Cathedral (1325)
- Lincoln: +Cathedral (1192)
- Stamford: Burghley House
- Liverpool: Albert Dock, George Pier, Frederick Gibberd's Catholic Cathedral of Christ the King (1967), Giles Scott's Anglican Cathedral
- Oxford: +Christ Church, Merton College, Magdalen College, +Radcliffe Camera, Bodleian library, All Souls College
- Peterborough: Cathedral
- Southwell: cathedral (1131) with three tiers of arches
- Windsor: +Castle with +Gilbert's tomb of Prince Victor, Eton College
- Woodstock: +Nicholas Hawksmoor's Blenheim Palace (1724)
- Hatfield House
- St Albans
- Worcester: Cathedral
- Lutyens' Plaisaunce, Overstrand, Norfolk (1901)
Western England
- Chester: Old city, +the Rows, Watergate St
- Ludlow: Stokesay Castle
- Ironbridge Gorge
- Hereford: Old House
Northern England
- Bamburgh Castle
- Chollerford: Hadrian's wall
- Newcastle upon Tyne: St Nicholas cathedral
- Derwentwater Lake
- Durham: +Cathedral (13th c)
- Hexham: Priory, Moot Hall
- Blackpool: Tower
- Manchester: Museum of Science, City Hall, +Civil Justice Centre, Daniel Libeskind's Imperial War Museum North (2001)
- Hardwick Hall (1597)
- Sheffield: City Hall
- Ripon: Fountains Abbey
- York: +Cathedral (minster), Selby abbey, Rielvaux Abbey
- Wakefield: Bretton Country Park's +Henry Moore sculptures
- Beverley: +Cathedral (minster)
- Castle Howard
Scotland
- Stirling: Castle
- Melrose: +Abbey (12th c)
- Dundee: +Glamis castle
- Edinburgh: Castle, Old town, +Royal Mile, Forth Bridge (1964), Walter Scott Monument (1846), Ron Mueck's "A Girl" (2006) at National Galleries of Scotland , Scottish Parliament Building
- Glasgow: Museum, Alexander Thomson's Caledonia Rd Free Church (1857), Kelvingrove Art Gallery, University, Provand's Lordship (medieval house), Zaha Hadid's Museum of Transport
- Maybole: +Culzean castle
- Aberdeen: +Provost Skene's House
- Inveraray castle
- Grampian Mountains
- Hebrides: Callanish megaliths (on Lewis island), Uig bay (on Skye island), basalt pinnacles of Trotternish Peninsula (on Skye island), Fingal's cave (on Staffa)
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Notes
- Changing money in London: exchange bureaus at the London airports rank among the most stunning legalized robberies in the world. Take the tube to Paddington Station and walk to Praed Street, where you have a choice of bureaus.
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