UK Travellers Info about Places to visit in UK

The House in the Clouds is a water tower at Thorpeness, Suffolk, UK. It was built in 1923 to receive water pumped from Thorpeness Windmill.The building currently has five bedrooms and three bathrooms; it contains a total of 68 steps from top to bottom and is around 70ft high. Read More »

The castle today dates mostly famous from the 19th century and is built on islands in a lake formed by the River Len to the east of the village of Leeds. It has been open to the public since 1976.Leeds Castle Foundation, a private charitable trust whose aim is to preserve the castle and grounds for the benefit of the public. Read More »

The Museum of London documents the history of London from the Prehistoric to the present day.The museum is jointly controlled and funded by the City of London Corporation and the Greater London Authority. Read More »

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is an amazingly fascinating state, comprising four different countries – England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.Politically, Great Britain also refers to the island itself together with a number of surrounding islands, which constitute the territory of England, Scotland andWales. Read More »

30 St Mary Axe (informally also known as “the Gherkin” and previously the Swiss Re Building) is a skyscraper in London‘s financial district, the City of London, completed in December 2003 and opened at the end of May 2004.In September 2006, the building was put up for sale with a price tag of GB£600 million. Read More »

The Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, popularly known asWestminster Abbey, is a large, mainly Gothic church, in the City of Westminster,London, located just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. Wistminster is a traditional place of coronation and burial site for English, later British and later still (and currently) monarchs of the Commonwealth realms. Read More »

The London Eye is a giant Ferris wheel situated on the banks of the River Thames in London, England. The London Eye was formally opened by the then Prime Minister, Tony Blair, on 31 December 1999, although it was not opened to the public until 9 March 2000 because of technical problems. Read More »

Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, England, about 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Amesbury and 8 miles (13 km) north of Salisbury. Stonehenge is the remains of a ring ofstanding stones set within earthworks. It is in the middle of the most dense complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, including several hundred burial mounds. Read More »