England Top Things To Do

• Visit London's huge range of museums, houses, churches and galleries, or spend away in its vast choice of shops and markets (website: www.visitlondon.com).

• Catch a match of football - a major sport in England and extremely popular (website: www.premierleague.com).

Surf at Newquay in Cornwall (website: www.newquay.com).

• Attend a performance at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon (website: www.stratford-upon-avon.co.uk), once home to William Shakespeare. His birthplace and relatives' houses can be visited, as well as the Holy Trinity Church where he and his family are buried.

• Spend a day in Windsor (website: www.windsor.gov.uk), and explore the famous castle that is one of the Queen's official residences.
 
• Escape to Cumbria (website: www.cumbria-the-lake-district.co.uk), where the Lake District National Park is dominated by England's highest mountains.

• Walk along 1,800-year-old Hadrian's Wall (website: www.hadrians-wall.org), which spans England from west of the border city of Carlisle (website: www.historic-carlisle.org.uk) to Newcastle (website: www.visitnewcastlegateshead.com), marking the northern boundary of the Roman Empire.

• Hike the Pennine Way (website: www.thepennineway.co.uk), which stretches 430km (270 miles) through hills and dales from the north Midlands to the Scottish border.

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