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The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, usually known as the National Trust, is an organisation which works to preserve and protect coastline, countryside and buildings in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The trust does not operate in Scotland, where there is an independent National Trust for Scotland.
ATTRACTIONS OF ENGLAND |
LONDON |
Big Ben |
British Museum |
London Eye |
Tower of London |
Westminster Abbey |
SOUTHEAST ENGLAND |
Windsor Castle |
WEST COUNTRY |
Avebury |
Stonehenge |
| ENGLAND'S ATTRACTIONS & PLACES OF INTEREST |
 LONDON ATTRACTIONS & PLACES OF INTEREST |
| Big Ben |
London |
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Big Ben is the colloquial name of the Clock Tower of the Palace of Westminster in London, and an informal name for the Great Bell of Westminster, the largest bell in the tower and part of the Great Clock ...
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| British Museum |
London |
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The British Museum is one of the world's largest and most important museums of ancient history. It was established in 1753 and was based largely on the collections of the physician and scientist Sir Hans Sloane ...
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| London Eye |
London |
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The British Airways London Eye, sometimes called the Millennium Wheel, is the first-built and largest observation wheel in the world, and has been since its opening at the end of 1999. It stands 135 metres high ...
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| Tower of London |
London |
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The Tower of London is officially Her Majesty's Palace and Fortress, The Tower of London, although the last ruler to reside in it as a palace was King James I (1566-1625). The White Tower is actually in the middle of a complex ...
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| Westminster Abbey |
London |
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The Collegiate Church of St Peter, Westminster (Westminster Abbey), a mainly Gothic church, on the scale of a cathedral, is the traditional place of coronation and burial site for English monarchs ...
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| SOUTHEAST ENGLAND ATTRACTIONS & PLACES OF INTEREST |
| Windsor Castle |
Berkshire |
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Windsor Castle is, along with Buckingham Palace in London and Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh, one of the principal official residences of the British monarch. Queen Elizabeth stays there on many weekends of the year ...
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| WEST COUNTRY ATTRACTIONS & PLACES OF INTEREST |
| Avebury Henge and Stone Circles |
Wiltshire |
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Avebury is the site of an enormous henge and stone circles in the English county of Wiltshire, surrounding a village of the same name. It is one of the finest and largest Neolithic monuments in Europe ...
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| Stonehenge |
Wiltshire |
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Stonehenge is a Neolithic and Bronze Age monument located near Amesbury in the English county of Wiltshire, about 8 miles northwest of Salisbury. Composed of earthworks surrounding a circular setting of megaliths ...
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Hadrians Wall on the border
of England and Scotland
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