Icons of England

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Icons of England combines stunning photography and quotes, poetry, reminiscences and celebrity anecdotes. There is such a wealth of great landmarks in England with so much history, heritage and natural beauty crammed into a relatively small country. His new book The Body: A Guide for Occupants was shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize and is an international bestseller. The Museum at No 1 Royal Crescent gives you a glimpse into life in Bath during its late 18 thcentury Georgian heyday. The solid Norman nave is the oldest part of the church, and the 14 thcentury Great East Window the most fascinating, with a rare close-up view of this masterpiece.

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The scope of the Natural History Museum’s collection is immense – it covers every aspect of life and the universe, from geology to dinosaurs to the evolution of humans to what lies beyond us in space.

It’s also something of a Victorian Gothic fantasy, like a castle with spires and turrets on a river, straight out of afairytale.

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A boy pushes his bread-laden bike up the improbably steep cobbled street to the tune of Dvorak’s New World Symphony. Royal Crescent is a curve of thirty splendid townhouses designed and built by John Wood the Younger between 1767 and 1775, and it overlooks a vast lawn and Royal Victoria Park below. The Royal Oak and Oak Apple Day commemorate the escape of King Charles II from the grasps of the Parliamentarians ( Roundheads) after the Battle of Worcester in 1651 (the last battle of the English Civil War); he hid in an oak tree to avoid detection before making it safely into exile. These include the statue of St Michael Slaying the Devil by Jacob Epstein, a wonderful Baptistery window by John Piper and the font below it, hewn out of a rock from a hillside above Bethlehem.This Romanesque masterpiece was built to house the relics of two saints from the North East of England – St Cuthbert and the Venerable Bede. York Minster was founded in the 7 thcentury AD and has grown to become one of the great Gothic cathedrals of Europe. Chi-chiChester is home to several fine England landmarks, including the fine late Gothic StWerburgh’sCathedral, the famous Chester Rows walkways and the circuit of Roman Walls. It is crammed with British history and visiting Westminster Abbey– especially if you happen to be visiting on a relatively quiet winter weekday – is one of the most rewarding things to do in London.