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Wherever you would like to go and whatever you most want to see, we will design a day trip or multi-day tour around you. Tell us your ideas below and we will build an itinerary, share the timings and send you a price, usually within 24 hours.

Dream of the ancient mystery of Stonehenge, the honey-stone villages of the Cotswolds, the grandeur of Windsor Castle or the white cliffs of Dover? Pick your places, and we will plan the most comfortable route in a private luxury vehicle with an experienced driver.

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Destination guide

All 39 places on the map, and what to see there

Cotswolds· Honey-stone villages

Stratford-upon-Avon · 184 km, about 3 h 05 from London

  • Shakespeare's Birthplace: The half-timbered house where he was born in 1564
  • Anne Hathaway's Cottage: Thatched family home of Shakespeare's wife
  • Royal Shakespeare Theatre: The RSC's riverside home, with a tower viewpoint

Warwick Castle · 198 km, about 3 h 22 from London

  • Warwick Castle: A thousand years of towers, ramparts and great halls
  • Lord Leycester Hospital: Timber-framed medieval almshouse and garden
  • St Mary's Church tower: Climb for views across Warwickshire

Chipping Campden · 165 km, about 2 h 43 from London

  • High Street: A curving street of honey-coloured stone houses
  • Market Hall: Arcaded hall built for wool traders in 1627
  • St James' Church: One of the great Cotswold 'wool churches'

Hidcote · 175 km, about 2 h 57 from London

  • Hidcote garden rooms: Arts and Crafts garden of hedged outdoor 'rooms'
  • Kiftsgate Court Gardens: Terraced hillside garden next door
  • Dover's Hill: Wide views across the Vale of Evesham

Stow-on-the-Wold · 149 km, about 2 h 28 from London

  • Market Square: The historic heart of England's highest market town
  • St Edward's Church door: The north door framed by ancient yew trees
  • Antique shops and tearooms: Browse the lanes around the square

Bourton-on-the-Water · 145 km, about 2 h 21 from London

  • River Windrush bridges: Low stone footbridges over the shallow river
  • The Model Village: The whole village rebuilt at one-ninth scale
  • Birdland Park & Gardens: Penguins, flamingos and riverside gardens

Burford · 129 km, about 2 h 03 from London

  • The High Street: A steep hill of stone shops, inns and tearooms
  • St John the Baptist Church: A grand wool church with medieval carvings
  • Cotswold Wildlife Park: Rhinos and giraffes in manor-house grounds

Bibury · 145 km, about 2 h 16 from London

  • Arlington Row: 14th-century weavers' cottages beside the river
  • Bibury Trout Farm: One of England's oldest trout farms
  • Rack Isle and the River Coln: Water meadow at the centre of the village

Tetbury · 176 km, about 2 h 43 from London

  • The Market House: Pillared 1655 hall at the centre of town
  • Highgrove Gardens: The King's private gardens, open for guided tours
  • Westonbirt Arboretum: The National Arboretum and its treetop walkway

Castle Combe · 199 km, about 3 h 09 from London

  • The Street and Market Cross: Often called England's prettiest village
  • The By Brook bridge: The classic view of the village
  • St Andrew's Church: Home of a rare faceless medieval clock

Oxford & Downton· Colleges and palaces

Bicester Village · 100 km, about 1 h 27 from London

  • Bicester Village: Around 150 designer boutiques at outlet prices
  • Bicester Heritage: A restored 1930s RAF station, now a classic-car hub

Blenheim Palace · 115 km, about 1 h 51 from London

  • The State Rooms: Baroque palace and birthplace of Winston Churchill
  • Capability Brown parkland: The lake, Grand Bridge and 2,000 acres of park
  • Formal gardens: Water Terraces and the Italian Garden

Oxford · 97 km, about 1 h 31 from London

  • Radcliffe Camera & Bodleian: Oxford's famous domed library and its reading rooms
  • Christ Church: College, cathedral and the Great Hall
  • Ashmolean Museum: Britain's oldest public museum

Bampton · 128 km, about 2 h 00 from London

  • The Downton Abbey village: Streets and church used in the series
  • St Mary's Church: Where Downton's weddings were filmed
  • Bampton Library: The series' 'Downton Cottage Hospital'

Cambridge· Colleges and aircraft

Cambridge · 100 km, about 1 h 35 from London

  • King's College Chapel: Soaring fan-vaulted chapel, begun in 1446
  • Punting on the Backs: Glide past the colleges on the River Cam
  • Fitzwilliam Museum: Antiquities and old masters, free to visit

IWM Duxford · 84 km, about 1 h 22 from London

  • AirSpace hangar: Concorde and a century of British aircraft
  • American Air Museum: A B-52 bomber and SR-71 Blackbird
  • Historic airfield: Battle of Britain hangars and flying Spitfires

London & Royal Thames· Palaces on the river

Windsor Castle · 37 km, about 46 min from London

  • Windsor Castle State Apartments: The oldest occupied castle in the world
  • St George's Chapel: Royal weddings and resting place of monarchs
  • The Long Walk: Three-mile avenue with views back to the castle

Hampton Court Palace · 23 km, about 45 min from London

  • Henry VIII's State Apartments: The Great Hall and the Tudor court
  • The Maze: Britain's oldest surviving hedge maze
  • Tudor Kitchens & the Great Vine: Kitchens that fed the court, and a 1768 vine

Bath & Wiltshire· Roman baths and ancient stones

Bath · 185 km, about 2 h 31 from London

  • The Roman Baths: Steaming Roman bathing complex, around 2,000 years old
  • Bath Abbey: Tower tours above the city's rooftops
  • The Royal Crescent: A sweeping curve of 30 Georgian townhouses

Lacock · 188 km, about 3 h 01 from London

  • Lacock Abbey: Cloisters used in the Harry Potter films
  • Fox Talbot Museum: Where the photographic negative was invented
  • The village streets: A National Trust village used in period dramas

Avebury · 164 km, about 2 h 36 from London

  • Avebury stone circle: The largest stone circle in the world
  • Avebury Manor: A 16th-century manor house with themed rooms
  • Silbury Hill & West Kennet: Prehistoric mound and a 5,600-year-old long barrow

Stonehenge · 159 km, about 2 h 14 from London

  • The stone circle: Built in stages from around 5,000 years ago
  • Neolithic houses: Reconstructed homes at the visitor centre
  • The Stonehenge landscape: Burial mounds and the ancient Avenue

Glastonbury · 232 km, about 3 h 24 from London

  • Glastonbury Tor: The hilltop St Michael's Tower and far-reaching views
  • Glastonbury Abbey: Ruins linked to the legend of King Arthur
  • Chalice Well gardens: Peaceful gardens around an ancient spring

Salisbury · 169 km, about 2 h 35 from London

  • Salisbury Cathedral: Britain's tallest spire, finished around 1320
  • Magna Carta: The best preserved of the four 1215 originals
  • Old Sarum: Iron Age hillfort, the site of the first city

South Coast· Cathedrals and the seaside

Highclere Castle · 114 km, about 1 h 47 from London

  • Highclere Castle: Home of the Earls of Carnarvon and Downton Abbey
  • Egyptian Exhibition: The 5th Earl and the discovery of Tutankhamun
  • Parkland and gardens: Capability Brown landscape and walled gardens

Winchester · 109 km, about 1 h 36 from London

  • Winchester Cathedral: The longest medieval nave in Europe, and Jane Austen's grave
  • The Great Hall: Home of the legendary Round Table
  • Winchester College: One of England's oldest schools

Chawton House · 90 km, about 1 h 22 from London

  • Jane Austen's House: Where she wrote and revised her six novels
  • Chawton House: Elizabethan manor of Austen's brother
  • St Nicholas Church: Resting place of her mother and sister

Southampton · 132 km, about 1 h 59 from London

  • SeaCity Museum: The story of the Titanic and its crew
  • Bargate and town walls: Some of Britain's best preserved medieval walls
  • Tudor House & Garden: 800 years of history in one house

Portsmouth · 148 km, about 2 h 21 from London

  • HMS Victory: Nelson's flagship at Trafalgar, in the Historic Dockyard
  • Mary Rose Museum: Henry VIII's warship, raised from the seabed
  • Spinnaker Tower: 170-metre viewing tower over the harbour

Arundel Castle · 101 km, about 1 h 46 from London

  • Arundel Castle: A thousand-year-old castle with a Norman keep
  • Arundel Cathedral: French Gothic church on the hilltop
  • WWT Arundel Wetland Centre: Boat safaris through the reed beds

Kent & Sussex· Castles and white cliffs

Brighton · 87 km, about 1 h 39 from London

  • Royal Pavilion: George IV's Indian-style seaside palace
  • Brighton Palace Pier: Victorian pier with rides and arcades
  • The Lanes: Narrow alleys of independent shops

Chartwell · 51 km, about 1 h 05 from London

  • Churchill's family home: Rooms kept as they were in his lifetime
  • The studio: The largest collection of Churchill's paintings
  • Gardens and lakes: Views across the Weald of Kent

Canterbury · 98 km, about 1 h 31 from London

  • Canterbury Cathedral: Mother church of England and site of Becket's murder
  • St Augustine's Abbey: Ruins of a 6th-century abbey
  • River Stour punting: Float past medieval buildings

Leeds Castle · 112 km, about 2 h 18 from London

  • Leeds Castle: A castle on two islands in a lake
  • Yew maze and grotto: A maze with an underground shell grotto at its heart
  • Culpeper Garden: Cottage-style garden inside the grounds

Hever Castle · 59 km, about 1 h 22 from London

  • Hever Castle: Childhood home of Anne Boleyn
  • The Italian Garden: Statues, loggia and a lake
  • Yew and water mazes: Fun for families in the summer

Dover · 125 km, about 1 h 58 from London

  • Dover Castle: Medieval fortress with secret wartime tunnels
  • White Cliffs walk: Clifftop path with views to France
  • South Foreland Lighthouse: Victorian lighthouse on the cliffs

Rye · 144 km, about 3 h 01 from London

  • Mermaid Street: Cobbled lane with the 15th-century Mermaid Inn
  • Ypres Tower: 13th-century tower with views over the marsh
  • Camber Sands: Miles of dunes and beach nearby

Battle · 115 km, about 2 h 21 from London

  • The 1066 battlefield: Walk where the Battle of Hastings was fought
  • Battle Abbey: Founded by William the Conqueror
  • The Abbey Gatehouse: Rooftop views over the battlefield

Hastings · 126 km, about 2 h 38 from London

  • Hastings Castle: Ruins of William the Conqueror's first castle
  • Old Town and net huts: Tall black fishermen's huts on the Stade
  • East Hill Cliff Railway: Britain's steepest funicular railway
Photo and map credits
  • Stratford-upon-Avon: ianpudsey, CC BY 3.0. Source
  • Warwick Castle: DeFacto, CC BY-SA 4.0. Source
  • Chipping Campden: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0. Source
  • Hidcote: VashiDonsk at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. Source
  • Stow-on-the-Wold: Bs0u10e01, CC BY-SA 4.0. Source
  • Bourton-on-the-Water: Saffron Blaze, CC BY-SA 3.0. Source
  • Burford: Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0. Source
  • Bibury: Saffron Blaze, CC BY-SA 3.0. Source
  • Tetbury: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 4.0. Source
  • Bicester Village: Des Blenkinsopp, CC BY-SA 2.0. Source
  • Blenheim Palace: Blenheim Palace, CC BY 4.0. Source
  • Oxford: Diliff, CC BY 2.5. Source
  • Bampton: Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0. Source
  • Highclere Castle: Launus, CC BY-SA 4.0. Source
  • Cambridge: Dmitry Tonkonog, CC BY-SA 3.0. Source
  • IWM Duxford: IxK85, CC BY-SA 3.0. Source
  • London: ThatsTheBoss, CC0. Source
  • Windsor Castle: Diliff, CC BY 2.5. Source
  • Hampton Court Palace: Tilman2007, CC BY-SA 4.0. Source
  • Castle Combe: Saffron Blaze, CC BY-SA 3.0. Source
  • Bath: Diliff, CC BY 2.5. Source
  • Lacock: Mike Peel, CC BY-SA 4.0. Source
  • Avebury: MikPeach, CC BY-SA 4.0. Source
  • Stonehenge: garethwiscombe, CC BY 2.0. Source
  • Glastonbury: Marley Sexton, CC0. Source
  • Salisbury: Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0. Source
  • Winchester: Antony McCallum (Wyrdlight.com), CC BY 3.0. Source
  • Chawton House: Charles D P Miller from Basingstoke, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0. Source
  • Southampton: Geni, CC BY-SA 4.0. Source
  • Portsmouth: Editor5807, CC BY-SA 3.0. Source
  • Arundel Castle: Chensiyuan, CC BY-SA 4.0. Source
  • Brighton: Qmin, CC BY-SA 3.0. Source
  • Chartwell: Gaius Cornelius, CC BY-SA 3.0. Source
  • Canterbury: Tony Hisgett from Birmingham, UK, CC BY 2.0. Source
  • Leeds Castle: Adusha, CC BY 3.0. Source
  • Hever Castle: Christoph Matthias Siebenborn, CC BY 3.0. Source
  • Dover: Immanuel Giel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Source
  • Rye: Ian Cunliffe, CC BY-SA 2.0. Source
  • Battle: Cmao20, CC BY-SA 4.0. Source
  • Hastings: michael, CC BY-SA 2.0. Source
  • Map: county boundaries from UK ceremonial counties data, coastline from Natural Earth, Cotswolds boundary from Natural England (Open Government Licence). Road distances from OSRM, © OpenStreetMap contributors.