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BRITAINS MOST POPULAR SIGHTS FOR VISITING


Britain's Best 2007: The
winners UKTV SURVEY

Over the past six months, you have been voting for your favourite historical site. We received over 600,000 votes via web, red button, post, phone and SMS - and can finally reveal the winners...

1. Stonehenge
Please remember that Scotland's population is well less than 10% of Englands, Regards Rabbie. Click on any site to see photos, R.
It may be 5000 years old, but it still manages to capture and inspire. Stonehenge, on the bleak and windy Salisbury Plains received 15% of the overall votes - making it undoubtedly Britain's Best.

2 HMS Victory

3. Liverpool Cathedral

4. Tamworth Castle

5. Lincoln Cathedral

6. Hadrian's Wall

7. York Minster

8. Erddig

9. Brewery Arts Centre

10. Alton Towers


The other sites in the Top 100:

A
Alnwick Castle
Alnwick Garden
Anne Hathaway's Cottage
Avebury
Ayscoughfee Hall


B
Bamburgh Castle
Beamish Museum
Belton House
Bettys Cafe Tea Rooms
Blackpool Tower
Blenheim Palace
Bletchley Park
Bodiam Castle
Bodnant Gardens
Brontė Parsonage
Buckingham Palace
Burghley House


C
Canterbury Cathedral
Carreg Cennen Castle
Castell Coch
Castle Howard
Chatham Historic Dockyard
Chatsworth Garden
Chatsworth House
Chirk Castle
Clifton Suspension Bridge
Conwy Castle
Coventry Cathedral
Cragside
Crathes Castle Gardens
Crofton Beam Engines
Culloden Battle Field

D
Dover Castle
Dudley Canal Tunnel & Limestone Mines
Dunfermline Abbey
Durham Cathedral


E
Edinburgh Castle
Ely Cathedral

F
Fishbourne Roman Palace
Forth Bridge
Fountains Abbey & Studley Royal Water Garden

G
Glasgow Cathedral

H
Haddon Hall
Hampton Court
Hardwick Hall
Harewood House
Harlech Castle

K
Kendal Castle
Kenilworth Castle
Kensington Palace
Kew Gardens
Kinneil House and Museum


L
Lancaster Castle
Lanhydrock
Leeds Castle
Levens Hall and Gardens
Lincoln Castle
Linlithgow Palace
Lost Gardens of Heligan


M
Mayflower Steps
Metropolitan Cathedral Liverpool
Mother Shipton's Cave and the Petrifying Well
Muncaster Castle

N
New Lanark
Nottingham Castle


P
Portmeirion


R
Rochester Castle
Royal Pavilion

S
Salisbury Cathedral
Scone Palace
Sherwood Forest
Skara Brae
Skipton Castle
Southsea Castle
St Davids Cathedral
St Paul's Cathedral
Stirling Castle

T
Tattershall Castle
Tatton Park Mansion
Tintern Abbey
Tower of London
Twyford Waterworks


W
Wallace Monument
Warwick Castle
Wentworth Castle Gardens
Westminster Abbey
Whitby Abbey
Woolsthorpe Manor
Worsbrough Mill Museum



-- Edited by Rabbie Downunder at 03:40, 2007-09-23

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Many thanks for introducing us to this site which makes me realise i have seen more as a tourist abroad than ever saw of country of birth except when going back as tourist. But then in those days one only had two weeks holiday per annum and worked on Saturday mornings. Aussied Pom.

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