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Bradshaw’s Guide for tourists in Great Britain and Ireland

1866 Edition

Routes & Tours

Best Of The Guide

  • Sussex :

    Brighton

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    This once famous resort of royalty and fashion may now, through the levelling of the railroad, be fairly entitled to the appellation of the Marine Metropolis.

  • Gloucestershire :

    Bristol

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    Cathedral city, seaport, and parliamentary borough in Gloucestershire 118 miles from London.

  • Surrey :

    Crystal Palace

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    The site of the Crystal Palace on the summit of Penge Park is one of the most beautiful in the world.

  • Edinburghshire :

    Edinburgh

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    This city, which has not aptly been termed the “modern Athens,” is one of the most ancient in this country.

  • Lanarkshire :

    Glasgow

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    That which was the ruin of many small places in this part of Great Britain, namely the Union, 1707, was the grand cause of the prosperity of Glasgow, and from the spirit of the inhabitants, has risen to be reckoned as the fourth port of the United Kingdom.

  • County Kerry :

    Killarney

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    The Lakes of Killarney are three in number — the Upper, the Tore (or Middle), and the Lower; these, with their islands and other attractive objects, we shall briefly describe.

  • Lancashire :

    Manchester

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    Manchester, the metropolis of the cotton manufacture, a cathedral city, and parliamentary borough, in the south-east comer of Lancashire, on the Irwell, 188¼ miles from London, and 31½ from Liverpool.

  • Carnarvonshire :

    Menai Bridge

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    Two miles from Bangor, across the narrow channel which cuts off Anglesea, is best seen from the water below, above which it rises 100 feet, at high tide.

  • Yorkshire :

    York

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    The ancient capital of York and seat of the Primate of England, situated at the juncture of its three Ridings, on the Ouse.