Victoria Street: Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Regent Street: London, England
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Bute Street: Sheffield, England
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The Royal Mile: Edinburgh, Scotland
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Royal Crescent: Bath, England
This is a residential road in a crescent shape consisting of 30 homes. It’s one of the greatest examples of Georgian architecture in the UK. It’s been home to many famous people in the past, but today it has many different uses. Most homes are privately owned, while some are maintained by a housing association. Number One Royal Crescent is a museum showing how a wealthy homeowner might have furnished it in the past, and Number 16 Royal Crescent joined with 15 to become the Royal Crescent Hotel.
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Loch Glascarnoch: Altguish Inn, Scotland
Ok, I’ll admit it. I am completely and utterly in love with the Scottish Highlands. It’s my brand new obsession. The highlands make up the Northwestern 60% of Scotland. It’s an incredibly mountainous region that also includes many lochs. It’s split up into two regions, the North West Highlands and the Grampians, which are broken up by the Great Glen. The mountains of the highlands are quite high compared to their surrounding areas, but not internationally. Still, the weather patterns created by the meeting of the Atlantic and European air streams distorts them to seem larger.
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Hever Castle: Kent, England.
This manor started out as a country house built around the early 13th century. Geoffrey Boleyn turned the castle into a manor around 1462, and it was handed down to his grandson, Thomas Boleyn in 1505. It then turned into the childhood home of the future Queen consort of England, Anne Boleyn, and her sister, Mary, and brother, George. Mary was disowned for marrying a commoner, Anne was beheaded with no son, and George had a childless marriage with Lady Rochford. Because of this, the Hever estate was left to King Henry VIII when Thomas Boleyn died in 1539. In 1540, King Henry divorced his then wife, Anne of Cleves. Hever Castle was given to her as part of their settlement. After her childless death, the manor passed through many hands where it fell into a state of disrepair. In 1903, American millionaire William Waldorf Astor restored it and used it as a family residence. It was bought for the last time by Broadland Properties Limited who uses the manor as a conference center, but the castle is also open to the public. Its gardens are famous for its many mazes.
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Hay-on-Wye, Wales.
Hay-on-Wye is a booktown, or a town with a large number of second-hand or antique bookshops. There are over 30 bookstores in this very small town, many of which are second-hand and specialty stores. The Guardian Hay festival is a literacy festival during the beginning of June. Over a period of 10 days, as many as 80,000 visitors come to the festival. Some of the bookstores spill out into the streets during this time! Another cool fact is the current mayor of Hay-on-Wye (Richard Booth) proclaimed the town a micronation and himself the king of said nation. It’s merely a publicity stunt for the town’s growing tourism, but it’s still pretty damn awesome. Sadly, King Booth is planning to sell his bookstore and move to Germany soon.
