Polperro was the best town we visited on the south Cornwall coast.

The name of DH Lawrence's birthplace is Eastwood - great to visit around first week in October!

I will be staying in Stanton in the Cotswolds this June. Have stayed there two other times. It is a wonderful medieval village, have also been to Great Tew, Upper and Lower Slaughter, Burton on Water (they have a miniature village that you can visit, it is a replica of the actual village) The Cotswolds are wonderful, Morton on Marsh, Stow on the Wold, Guiting Power and on. Enjoy

Just returned from a 3 week trip to England. Enjoyed reading everyone's favourites - there are so many favourite places to see! My suggestion is that you savour fewer - just walk about and enjoy and dream. A few favourites of mine that were not mentioned are, Bibury in the south Cotswolds, and Cartmel in the Lake District. I would like to second the remarks about Suffolk - add Thaxted to the list! Enjoy!

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Just back from three weeks in Britain, including the much-mentioned Cotswolds, which are picture perfect.<BR>However, for a northern village, I'd suggest Hovingham, north of York. The Worsley Arms hotel is classic. <BR>Also, in Northumberland, Seahouses for a stay in a fishing village (at the Old Ship Inn) which has a wonderful pub and a lounge overlooking the water. <BR>Or go just north of Seahouses -- past Bambury Castle -- to Holy Island, also known as Landisfarme. You can only go along the road to the island when the tide is out. Castle and abbey ruins and a fascinating walled garden, nice restaurants, etc. Wonderful!

Northumberland has got some very pretty seaside villages, a little bit more south and you would have come accross Alnmouth a very attractive village by the sea, with lots of history. And even more south you would have had a real treat - Staithes and Robin Hoods Bay with its cobbled streets leading to the sea, quaint fishermen houses nearly touch each other they are so close. Pretty Whitby is in the vicinity (where Captain Cook was brought up, and where Dracula came ashore).

In the SE - Alfriston is about the prettiest. Cotswolds - Bourton-on-the-Water. Wiltshire - Lacock. Oxfordshire - Woodstock.

Here are three I have visited that were not on any of the lists. CASTLE COOMBE AND CLOSE BY:CORSHAM<BR>BIDDESTONE all in Wilshire I believe.

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I am travelling to the Cotwolds next spring. I want to know is Broadway a good place to stay as a base to see all the surrounding Norther Cotswolds towns?

Broadway's a nice choice, - though my first choice would be Chipping Campden.

There's some lovely villages near to the main Cotswolds trail but completely unspoilt- such as Ilmington (ggod restaurant/pub The Howard Arms) and Armscote (excellent pub The Fox and Goose)<BR>I'd also recommend Pickering in North Yorkshire; Robin Hood's Bay and Skipton and Chipping in Lancashire

Matlock is charming and has great fish and chips and mushy peas!

Is Stamford worth visiting? Bourne?

Roger:<BR>Stamford is deffinitely worth visiting: it stood in for Middlemarch for the tv adaptation and rightly so: it is an unspoilt jewel of a Georgian country town. Honey coloured stone, soaring chusch steeples and tiny lanes and alleys. The George is a great pub/hotel and my old employers used to send all viviting Americans there to view one of our businesses on the basis that they would be so made up for the place they'd invest more money in the company!<BR>Bourne on the other hand is nothing to write home about but is also unspoilt and well of the beaten track. Nearby is the village of Grimethorpe which sounds awful but is most picturesque with a pretty castle/country house. Which reminds me... one of the finest country houses in all England is on the doorstep of Stamford - Burleigh.<BR>Stamford is definitely, definetely worth a visit for any tourist!

Helford in Cornwall<BR>Amberly and Alfriston in Sussex

This is reply 57. Mike wants to know 100 of the prettiest villages in England.<BR><BR>Gorey in Jersey in pretty. However, it is not in England. It is in the Channel Islands.<BR><BR>Wool in Dorset was cute. I only saw 1 shop. There is nothing there except a small Methodist church with a stained glass window. There is a train station.

I've never been there but I hear Hangnail-on-the-Pinkey is just lovely!!

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