ABAB’s Places now lists 200 places to visit in Britain. There is enough information about each one to tell you if you want to know more and links where available – to elsewhere on A Bit About Britain, the place’s own website, or both – to help you find it. Currently, all are places to visit in the North of England. I am adding to it as quickly as I can and we will gradually, but inexorably, move our way across the rest of Britain.
Below are fifteen randomly chosen places to visit from across the North. Recognise them? Click on a photograph to see if you were right. How many did you know?
Click a button on any of ABAB’s Places to find out more if it interests you.
Visit ABAB’s Places to search all places that are currently listed. Look for places by area or type. Have fun!
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Splendid shots.
Thank you very much, William!
I have only visited a few of them.
So many places to visit, CP. Btw, you may be interested to know I’ve been wresting with that nonce failure that you had – been driving me crazy!
What an excellent and comprehensive list of places to visit! 🙂
Thank you, Meg – we’re getting there slowly.
Of course I immediately spotted Fountains Abbey and Ingleborough.
Very soon, my sister and I shall be visiting Fountains again, the one favourite place in the world we have in common.
A week from today, we’ll be on our way to Yorkshire and “our” cottage in Ripon for two weeks.
I can see you made it, Meike!
This is wonderful, Mike.
Thanks, Jennie. One tries… 🙂
And you succeed!
An excellent project
Thanks, Derrick!
I recognised a few, but I’ve only visited two of them: Little Moreton Hall and Saltaire, both more or less by accident.
Sometimes, accidental visits are the best ones! They never disappoint, for a start.
True.
I was very familiar with Clifford’s Tower, both in the written history texts and in Jewish History lectures. But I have never seen the medieval portion of York’s fort with my own eyes, even though there are probably not very relics in the UK left from the late C13th (and none in Australia).
Looking at the the wooden castle keep that was the scene of the mass suicide of York’s persecuted Jews in 1190 will be painful. But I _will_ visit.
Thanks, Helen. Actually, you can still find 13th C remains in the UK. Never ceases to amaze me.
Well done!!!! I just found out that I have family on my mother’s father’s side of the family who stayed in Liverpool when my great grandfather came to the USA… So I am even more curious to read about Liverpool-related people and places! Thank you, Mike!
Thanks, Will! You will find several articles featuring places in Liverpool on the website, too! 🙂
Wow so many wonderful and interesting places to visit
The list never gets shorter! 🙂
Mike, what an amazing job you’ve done on this. Thank you on behalf of all those who will, I’m sure, find this information both highly useful and enjoyable.
Thanks, Peter. That’s very generous of you.
What a brilliant resource!
Thanks, Helen. I hope so – though of course it’s a project without end!
This is a fabulous resource. Thank you so much for doing this.
Thank you, Aline – very kind of you to say so.
That was fun, though I only got York, Fountains, Morecambe and cheated a bit as I knew it was Bamburgh, but the name could not be accessed from my brain so would have failed that in a quiz.
Thanks, Janet. I forget names all the time!!
Brilliant! Another labour of love that I doubt can be beaten by only one person’s experiences – and just like Eric, you’ve brought us all a bit of sunshine
Thanks, Malc. A long way to go, but it’s fun trying to get there.
Wonderful. I’ve visited many of these. All well worth a visit. I think I must remedy my omission and visit those I’ve not yet seen.
I don’t know about you, but my ‘to visit’ list just gets longer!
Mine does, too, but as I’m now old, the time to see them is getting frighteningly short.
Thank you very much for putting together this excellent and wonderfully informative post!
Thank you for saying so 🙂
You’ve worked hard on th is Mike and it’s really well done!
Thanks, Fraggle – that’s very much appreciated.