LITERATURE
IN BRITAIN
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Literature in Britain.
Take 'aim' for LITERATURE, and an imaginative selection of tours and set departures designed specifically for the frequent traveler to Britain who'd like to spend two to three nights in one place with value-added, behind-the- scenes - sometimes 'rarely open to the public' - opportunities to see and experience more of the 'real Britain'. Ask our Britain Specialist to assist you and your group with an interesting Literature in Britain Tour or a Literary Festival with your next visit to Britain!
English Literature Tours
Harry Potter Tours
Performing Arts
Tours & 'Shakespeare Up Close'
LYNOTT TOURS' ESCORTED HARRY POTTER TOURS
DAY ONE DAY ONE 1 PM.
Your tour commences in Britain's famous capital city and at the beginning of book -
London. Visit London Zoo, which transformed into Little Whinging Zoo
in the book. The scene of Harry's conversation with the snake took place in the reptile
house of London Zoo. Visit Kings Cross Station to see platform 9 ¾
where Harry starts his journey to Hogwarts School of Wizardry. Continue to Australia
House on the Strand, home of the Australian High Commission, which was transformed
into Gringotts Wizarding Bank. Walk down Charing Cross Road which
came to life as Diagon Alley where all the Wizard shops are. Stay overnight in
London.
DAY TWO On your own: Spend the day viewing the Harry Potter
sights of London. Take advantage of the fact that you are in one of the most famous
capital cities and enjoy many of the other attractions such as the spine chilling London
Dungeons, Buckingham Palace, Madame Taussard's or perhaps enjoy a 'hop on, hop off'
sightseeing bus tour encompassing all of the sights! In the evening, join a Murder Trail
and walk in the footsteps of the notorious "Jack the Ripper". Stay overnight
in London.
DAY THREE Travel to the ancient university city of Oxford for your next Harry
Potter sights. Visit Christ Church College, Oxfords largest college, which was
used to stage a number of Hogwarts
interior scenes and whose Great Hall was used to accommodate the
great feasts at the school. Also take in the famous Bodleian Library. The Duke Humphrey's Library
featured as Hogwarts Library in the film and the Divinity School
became the Hospital wing. From Oxford, drive up through the Cotswolds, past
Blenheim Palace - birthplace of Winston Churchill, to Stratford-upon-Avon. Stay overnight
in Stratford-upon-Avon
DAY FOUR Visit Warwick Castle - Britain's finest complete medieval fortress - and see
castle life re-enacted. The dungeons and torture chambers are a great
attraction. Drive through the pretty villages to the Cathedral City of Gloucester.
The Cathedral, famous for it's Gothic architecture, was the perfect setting for
many of the Hogwarts interior scenes. Pupils
from the Kings School, which adjoins the Cathedral, were used as film extras!
While in Gloucester, visit the famous Docks, surrounded by
Victorian Warehouses and enjoy the museums - The National Waterways and The Regimental
Museums. Stay overnight in Gloucester area
DAY FIVE Begin your journey with a visit to the medieval village of Lacock. This
village inspired the image of Godric's Hollow - where
Harry lived with his parents. Lacock Abbey was also used in various
Hogwarts School scenes. Continue your journey to the ancient village of Avebury to
see the mysterious circle of standing stones. Return to London for overnight.
DAY SIX Home from London.
Arrangements end after breakfast. Extra nights in London can be added at extra cost.
Includes:
- Motorcoach with driver . Extra guide in London.
- Accommodations at our choice of hotels.
- London Thistle Islington Hotel 2 nights
- Stratford-upon-Avon Best Western Salford Hall Hotel 1 night
- Gloucester Best Western New County 1 night
- London Thistle Islington Hotel 1 nights
- Full hearty breakfast is served each day. This may include home-baked breads, farm-fresh eggs, cereal, sausage and bacon. (Continental in London.)
- Value-Added Tax (V.A.T.) and service charges.
- Visits to and admission charges and entrance fees to: London Zoo o King's Cross Station o Christchurch o Bodleian Library o Divinity School o Warwick Castle o Gloucester Cathedral o Lacock Abbey o Avebury
Begins in London on Monday, ends in London on Saturday. Operates with just 10 persons! Round trip airfare available at additional cost.
Single supplement:
$279. Child rates apply to child under 12 sharing room with two adults. Airfare is also
available.
Please be advised that Harry Potter is a fictional character, and that you will not
actually be seeing Harry on the tour. The tour has been planned to visit sites
important in the first movies. You will no doubt recognize many of the places from the
films. An active imagination is all that is required to recreate the scenes in your mind.
Planning a school trip? Family Vacation?
If you have a group of students, friends or family (6 or
more), we can arrange a private escorted tour for you of Harry Potter sites. Contact
us for details!
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English Literature Tours
Best of British Murder/Mystery
Great English Literature
Historic Structures England & Wales
Land of Legends
Legends of King Arthur On the Trail of Robin Hood Sussex Literary Tour
ON THE TRAIL OF ROBIN HOOD
The major oak, Sherwood Forest
(Reputed meeting place for Robin Hood and his band of outlaws)
Focus on the much loved, and much filmed, popular hero
of Nottingham and nearby Sherwood Forest (pictured above)
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BEST OF BRITISH MURDER/MYSTERY
The Old Swan Hotel, Harrogate
Visit the London haunts of Sherlock Holmes, the creation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,
and Harrogate and the Old Swan Hotel (pictured above), once the
retreat of Agatha Christie.
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LAND OF LEGENDS
'King Arthur's Round Table'
In Chichester - the cathedral and its collection of Contemporary Art
Pallant House
Winchester - its Great Hall & 'Round Table' (pictured above)
College and Hospital of St. Cross
EITHER Wimborne Minster and its cathedral and 'chained' library
& Dorchester, of Thomas Hardy fame
OR, Salisbury for a special tour of its cathedral, and visit Stonehenge
Exeter - guided tour of its cathedral, going by way of Dartmoor, to Buckfast Abbey,
visiting Plymouth, embarkation point for the Pilgrim Fathers in 1620
Cornwall to Penzance, visiting St. Michael's Mount,
'Land's End' & St. Ives and the artists' studios
Bodmin Moor - Jamaica Inn, from Daphne du Maurier's book of the same name
& the Church of St. Nonna (Altarnun), known as the Cathedral of the Moor
Glastonbury Abbey to Wells - its cathedral and its medieval sculpture
Sightseeing tour in Bath
Prehistoric Wiltshire to Marlborough and London,
with a final evening at the theater.
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LEGENDS OF KING ARTHUR
A view of St. Michael's Mount from the village of
Marazion
Guided walking
tour of Winchester -
the cathedral and the 'Round Table' in the Great Hall
South Cadbury and Camelot, Exeter to Boscastle -
the ruins of Tintagel Castle & birthplace of King Arthur
Merlin's cave (beneath the access according to tides)
Slaughter Bridge, Arthur's last battleground
Dozmary Pool, resting place for Excalibur
Penzance
St. Michael's Mount
"Land's End"
'Leisure time' in St. Ives' artists' quarter
Bodmin Moor and the northern corner of Dartmoor to Taunton -
a 'tasting at a cider farm.
Glastonbury Tor - the alleged resting place of the Holy Grail
The abbey, the burial place of King Arthur
Wells Cathedral
Bath
In Wales - Caeleon, with a Caerphilly cheese tasting & Llancaiach Fawr Manor
Ancient stone circle at Avebury
Stonehenge
Salisbury to London, for some 'free time' & a West End theater performance.
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SUSSEX LITERARY TOUR
Charleston Farmhouse*, country home of the Bloomsbury Group
In Brighton - Royal Pavilion and an afternoon of antiques- hunting
The 'Bloomsbury Set' at Charleston Farmhouse (pictured above)
Lunch at The English Wine Center
Brighton, by way of the Monk's House, Rodmel, home to Virginia and Leonard Woolf
Winnie-the-Pooh country & the 17th Century Batemans, home to Rudyard Kipling
Walking tour and 'free time' in Lewes
Arundel - castle, library & 'free time'
Chichester - 'free afternoon' & choral evensong at 4:00 p.m.
Charles Dickens' birthplace in nearby Portsmouth
Lunch in Winchester - private tour of the Winchester Bibles in the cathedral library
Jane Austen's home at Chawton
Then London, for the night.
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HISTORIC STRUCTURES ENGLAND &
WALES
St. Fagan's Castle, where the grounds have been turned into the Museum of Welsh
Life
In Salisbury - special tour of its Cathedral and Old Sarum,
former site of the first cathedral and ancient city
Photostop at Stonehenge
Avebury - short walk around its Megalithic monument
Walking tour in Bath with a Jane Austen theme, including No. 1 Royal Crescent.
Wells Cathedral (services permitting)
Arthurian myths and legends' at Glastonbury Abbey, high up on Glastonbury Tor
In Wales - Caerleon, Roman site in Britain, with strong Arthurian connections,
St. Fagan's Museum of Welsh Life (pictured above),
Cardiff Castle, one of the finest castles in Wales
Garden at Barnsley House in the Cotswolds
Oxford's University Colleges
London
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GREAT ENGLISH LITERATURE
The Ultimate English Literature Tour
Daphne du Maurier's room at Jamaica Inn, Cornwall
Visit the source of inspiration for a number of famous English writers -
most notably Jane Austen, Daphne du Maurier, Agatha Christie, and Thomas Hardy
Guided tour of Bath as Jane Austen would have seen it
Nether Stowey
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's cottage where he wrote
the 'Ancient Mariner' and the first part of 'Cristabel'
North Devon and Somerset - associated with Wordsworth, Southey, Tennyson & Shelley
Exmoor - Lorna Doone country
Devon
Bocastle
Tintagel, the setting for the legendary castle of King Arthur
St. Ives' artists' quarter
Penzance
St. Michael's Mount
'Land's End'
Theater-under-the-stars at the Minack theater for evenings of
ghosts, tragedy, comedy, and even opera!
Daphne du Maurier and the Helford River, setting for 'Frenchman's Creek
Old Ferry, Bodinnick, with its view of Polman, scene of 'The Loving Spirit'
Fowey, and by ferry to St. Fimbarrus Church and the Rashleigh family tombs
Laynhydrock, a rebuilt version of Lord Robarte's Jacobean mansion
'Cathedral of the Moor' at Altarnun on Bodmin Moor
Jamaica Inn (pictured above), from the book of the same name by
Daphne duMaurier
Plymouth Dome - sights and smells of the Elizabethan city
of the voyages of Drake, Cook & the Pilgrim Fathers
Agatha Christie route from Milein, Torquay to Exeter
Lyme Regis, Jane Austen's favorite resort and location
for the filming of 'A French Lieutenant's Woman'
Salisbury - the Cathedral
Winchester - its cathedral , famous Winchester Bibles
(also the burial place of Jane Austen),
& see 'King Arthur's Round Table' in the Great Hall
Chawton, Jane Austen's house, where she wrote or revised her six great novels
London - theater in the evening.
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