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Northumberland Get Inspired englandscoast.com DISC VER ENGLAND’S CO ST England’s Coast is an exciting booking and marketing tool that brings to life a Discover the wealth of holiday experiences that can be enjoyed on the English coastline. magic of Why should you sell England’s Coast? As an island nation, our coast has been pivotal to English culture and history; it offers huge variety - dramatic landscapes, quaint fishing villages and entertaining towns to inspire and England’s engage visitors. coast! England’s Coast is not widely featured in many international tour operator itineraries, but our research indicates that consumers would visit if they knew more about it! So, work with us and create outstanding new product! 4-5 NORTHUMBERLAND TRADE PORTAL Wild Coast Our trade portal puts you in touch with the businesses around NORTHUMBERLAND YORKSHIRE EXPL RE the coast who are willing to work with the travel trade. Register 6-7 Heritage Coast for access and begin making new itineraries today. There is everything from accommodation, transport, attractions, ENGLAND’S 8-9 EAST COAST restaurants and much more available at: Natural Coast Alnwick englandscoast.com/en/trade-portal/register DURHAM & NORTH EAST CO ST 10-11 SOUTH EAST Cultural Coast ENGLAND’S COAST SPECIALIST Newcastle This free online training offers a top-level overview on all our ONLINE! SOUTH COAST coastal regions. It is designed for all your team to have the 12-13 Jurassic Coast YORKSHIRE basic knowledge of what England’s Coast has to offer and for Durham Tees Valley them to be inspired to explore more. Find out more at: 14-15 SOUTH WEST englandscoastspecialist.com Active Coast Scarborough NORTH WEST Amst er 16-17 NORTH WEST Leeds da Explorers’ Coast Blackpool Hull m DURHAM & NORTH EAST 18 Reclaimed Coast Humberside Our Partners Manchester Lincoln EAST COAST Liverpool Ro tter East Midlands da m FOLLOW US ONLINE King’s Lynn Ze Norwich ebrugg Website: englandscoast.com Twitter: @england_coast e Instagram: @englandscoast Facebook.com/englandscoast Harwich d (We also have Facebook pages in other languages, Hollan Hook of simply add: FR, DE, IT, ES or NL. e.g /englandscoastNL) London Southend Bristol Heathrow Gatwick Dover Southampton Brighton Dunkirk Exeter Bournemouth SOUTH WEST Calais Poole Airport Portsmouth Newhaven Plymouth SOUTH EAST Port Torquay Le Town Newquay SOUTH COAST ENGLANDSCOAST.COM Ha 3 Caen vr e Guer lo St Ma Jers ns Dieppe lo & Roscoff ey ey Ma Cherbourg St Day 1 Day 3 Day 4 WARKWORTH CASTLE, AMBLE AND BAMBURGH CASTLE AND THE THE HOLY ISLAND OF LINDISFARNE HOWICK GARDENS FARNE ISLANDS AND BERWICK-UPON-TWEED Start from Newcastle, visit the Drive north to the harbour town of Visit Holy Island, a historic and magnificent medieval castle ruins Seahouses and take a boat trip out picturesque location regularly at Warkworth Castle including to the Farne Islands for one of the reached by a causeway only Bamburgh Castle : Yin Sun Photo Sun Castle : Yin Bamburgh the nearby Hermitage, a religious UK’s top wildlife experiences. Here accessible at certain states of the building carved out of rock. Enjoy you can view up to 23 different bird tide. See Lindisfarne Castle and lunch in Amble with time to explore species, as well as a huge colony of Lindisfarne Priory, the epicentre of the village and lobster hatchery. grey seals. After lunch, stop off at Christianity in Anglo Saxon times. NORTHUMBERLAND Weather permitting, take a boat Bamburgh Castle, the royal seat of Spend some time exploring the trip out to Coquet Island, an RSPB the kings of Northumbria offering Elizabethan walls and museums Wild Coast reserve - famous for puffins and dramatic views over the surrounding of Berwick-upon-Tweed before Roseate terns. Alternatively explore countryside. Don’t miss the Grace returning to Newcastle. the beautiful gardens and arboretum Darling Museum before spending the at Howick Hall and indulge in night in Bamburgh. With more castles than any other English county guarding a traditional English tea at the Earl Grey tearooms. Overnight in its dramatic coastline, 30 miles of wild, sweeping beaches Alnwick. and chic seaside towns, Northumberland’s coastline is Day 2 ALNWICK waiting to be explored. Visit Alnwick Castle, the second largest inhabited castle in England and film location for some of the Harry Potter films. Go on to nearby Travel Notes Alnwick Gardens with lunch up in the treetops in their unusual Treehouse Arrival and Departure: Newcastle restaurant. Explore the town of Extend your trip! Alnwick in the afternoon or drive out to Craster, famous for its kippers, Why not combine a visit to Regional Airport: Newcastle Trains every half hour from central a local delicacy, and walk along Northumberland with Durham London to Newcastle (3 hrs) the coast to the dramatic ruins of and the North East? Dunstanburgh Castle. Overnight in Alnwick. Learn more on page: 18 Two coaches a day from central London Daily overnight ferry from Amsterdam to to Alnwick (8 hrs) Newcastle BE INSPIRED VISIT OUR TRADE PORTAL AT: ENGLANDSCOAST.COM 4 5 Day 1 Day 3 Day 5 BRIDLINGTON AND ROBIN HOOD’S BAY AND WHITBY STAITHES FLAMBOROUGH HEAD Visit the ancient fishing village of Explore the quaint fishing village From Hull, head north stopping Robin Hood’s Bay on the edge of of Staithes, the artists’ capital of at Burton Agnes Hall, filled with the North York Moors with colourful Yorkshire and home of the Captain beautiful historic treasures and houses winding higgledy-piggledy Cook and Staithes Heritage Centre. North York Moors. Credit : Mike Kipling_NYMNP : Mike Credit Moors. North York award winning Gardens. Have down to its ancient harbour. Visit Follow the Painted Illusion trail and lunch in Bridlington while enjoying the Old Coastguard Station or wander through the art galleries and the variety of boats in the ancient walk along the Cleveland Way to studios. Enjoy a leisurely local lunch fishing harbour. Then head on to the Ravenscar, a scenic spot rich in and then head back to Hull with YORKSHIRE dramatic cliffs at Flamborough Head industrial history. Drive on to Whitby optional stops at Beverley Minster or and view the huge seabird colonies and visit the Captain Cook Memorial Sewerby Hall. Heritage Coast at nearby RSPB Bempton Cliffs. Museum. Overnight in Whitby. Overnight in Scarborough. Day 4 Day 2 WHITBY Yorkshire offers some of the most rugged and charming SCARBOROUGH Visit Whitby Abbey, the inspiration Spend the day exploring for Count Dracula stories, for coastal scenery not least the breath-taking North York Scarborough with a visit to the spectacular views from the gothic Moors. Discover historical fishing villages and England’s spectacular cliff top Castle and ruins and explore its history at the the Rotunda Museum to find out visitor centre. Then take a round first seaside resort. more about the area’s unique trip on the heritage North Yorkshire geology. Options for the rest of Moors Railway and steam through the day include a boat trip, surf or the heart of the beautiful North paddleboard lesson or for the less York Moors National Park. Whitby energetic a visit to Scarborough’s is famous for its fantastic fish and Travel Notes Sealife Sanctuary. Overnight in chips so make sure you try this Scarborough where there are classic British dish either from a Arrival and Departure: Hull numerous evening entertainment traditional takeaway or one of the Extend your trip! options. town’s excellent seafood restaurants. Overnight in Whitby. Why not combine a visit to Regional Airport: Newcastle Newcastle and and Durham Durham Trains every halfhalf hour hour from from central central Yorkshire with Durham Tees Valley London to Durham (3(3hrs) hrs) and every hour and the North East? to Hartlepool (3(3hrs30) hrs 30) Learn more on page: 18 Three coaches aa dayday fromfrom centralcentral London Daily overnight ferry ferry from from Amsterdam Amsterdam to to Londonto Durham to Durham(7 hrs) and (7hrs) two anda day two to a day Newcastle toHartlepool Hartlepool (7 hrs) (7hrs) BE INSPIRED VISIT OUR TRADE PORTAL AT: ENGLANDSCOAST.COM 6 7 Day 1 Day 3 Day 4 EAST LINCOLNSHIRE THE BROADS NATIONAL PARK AND SUFFOLK AND ESSEX COAST From Hull head south to Donna Nook THE SUFFOLK COAST View the four meter high steel Nature Reserve, ideal for viewing Start the day by exploring the inland structure, Scallop on the Beach in both birdlife and, in November and waterways of the Broads National Aldeburgh before driving south into December, seal pups. Alternatively Park - Britain’s largest protected Essex. Stop off at the significant Wells-next-the-Sea spend time in the attractive market wetland and a wildlife haven. The archaeological site of Sutton Hoo, town of Louth, in the Lincolnshire best way to explore the Broads is or Flatford Mill, the inspiration for Wolds. Head out to the coast near by boat and there are a number Constable’s paintings where there Mablethorpe to see ‘Jabba’ and of operators offering a variety of is an exhibition of his life. Spend EAST COAST other unusual beach huts known as options from day boats and canoes some time in Walton-on-the-Naze the Bathing Beauties along with the to passenger cruisers. Spend some visiting the nature reserve, going Natural coast ‘Structures on the Edge’ including time in the pretty coastal town of fossil hunting or visiting the unusual the Cloud Bar at Anderby Creek. Southwold en route to the cultural art gallery located in the Naze Tower. Continue on to Gibraltar Point centre of Snape Maltings. Overnight End your day in Harwich exploring National Nature Reserve where the in nearby Aldeburgh. the Redoubt Fortress and some of Soak up the natural beauty of the East Coast viewing rare variety of habitats provide homes the sites connected to the 400th to a wealth of birdlife.
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