Trip to England.

Mr_B

Mr_B

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Hi all, the fiance' and I are planning a trip to England at the end of May. I'm wondering if anyone can recommend any sites to see - big old historic trees, parks or botanical gardens, places to hike or cool wooded areas, and castles would be cool if there are any that aren't teeming with tourists. Our home base is Isleworth, right next to the Kew botanic gardens. We're already planning to go to the neolithic sites at Avebury, up to York for a bit, and a few days in Ireland. I would love to see the Caledonian forest but I don't think were going to make it to Scotland. Planning on spending some time in London, I have a book about historic trees in the city so that's cool. Any and all suggestions are welcome from anyone willing to take the time to make them.

Thanks in advance

Brendan
 
Plan on spending a couple of days at Kew if you can. That place is amazing. I've been there twice, seperate times, and feel like there is always much more to see.
Have fun and drink a Guinness or two or three for me.
Cheers!
 
Thanks guys. Those remarkable tree books are really cool, did you have one just for England? British tree forum...seems like a good place to ask about British trees. Good idea. I'm lucky I will be so close to Kew... if only I could be drunk at noon taking a bus tour of it :)
 
Fredville Oak and wakehurst place are a must IMHO. Get Kew tour from Pat Lacombe (? Sp last name) retired Kew arborist to get the most out of it. Everywhere I went there had amazing trees. There are sooo many arboretums even close to London. Packenham's book Meetings with Remarkable Trees is a good guide!!!
 
Lol sherwood forest.

Is that the Royal Botanic garden @ wakehurst place? And is fredville oak a place or a tree? I'm definitely gonna have to get that book, too. Lake district looks really nice but it might be a little too out of the way, I'm going to try to avoid renting a car.

What's good in York?
 
It may seem for kids but I remember an exhibit from an excavation they did for a building which unearthed a viking encampment, I think viking. They simply dug it up and left most of the artifacts where they lay and built a village around it underground and turned it into a walk through exhibit. Leave it to the Brits, smart crowd they are. I really enjoyed that among the rest of the town which is truely from 400 years ago. Narrow streets, tudor style buildings old churhes, shops with items from the middle ages and just real easy to imagine being in the middle ages place, possibly the best in Europe. And don't miss out on the fish and chips there. I found the best f&c's in all of England in York. It's a small place can be seen in a few days. I then fled north to Edinburgh, Scotland and beyond which I'm just saying... No matter where you go in the British Isles will be a blast you just can't go wrong. Thumbs up to Dover too if you head south. Cliffs of Dover was awesome.
 
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Lol sherwood forest.

Is that the Royal Botanic garden @ wakehurst place? And is fredville oak a place or a tree? I'm definitely gonna have to get that book, too. Lake district looks really nice but it might be a little too out of the way, I'm going to try to avoid renting a car.

What's good in York?

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Im serious dude. Its a national park and has cool trees.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherwood_Forest
 
I would say atleast 2 days just stomping around London, in 1996 Camden was the most interesting place/heart beat centre of the world imo and then day trip to great gdns wakehurst,sissinghurst etc.
tunnel house and Gloucestershire country side with a full belly of Black Rat cider is a step in time.
Hastings for fish and chips and the battle site
If we ever get back I would like to spend a day and evening in Oxford.
 
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Lol sherwood forest.

Is that the Royal Botanic garden @ wakehurst place? And is fredville oak a place or a tree? I'm definitely gonna have to get that book, too. Lake district looks really nice but it might be a little too out of the way, I'm going to try to avoid renting a car.

What's good in York?

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Im serious dude. Its a national park and has cool trees.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherwood_Forest

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Oh no sht, I thought you were kidding. Looks like an awesome place especially if it's been the same forest since way back.

I am DEFINITELY looking forward to some fish and chips and all the ciders England has to offer. Has anyone rented a car there? Whats the deal with driving on the other side, is it really that hard to get used to?
 
I rented a car in Ireland like ten years ago. You just get in and go! wrong side of the car and wrong side of the road right into Dublin traffic. It was a blast and nobody died. As long as you have a drivers license and a credit card its all systems go.
 
The Fredville Oak is in Fredville park, nonnington, kent. Southeast part of the country (rented car for the day and drove out from London, stopped in Canterbury for an amazing vintage ale beef pie and snap photos of a crazy 8ft dbh P. orientalis pollard.) love it when you can drive across the whole country in a couple hours! So on the map the Fredville Oak looks like a long haul, but it's not bad. The tree is on its last legs so see it while you can!
 
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