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Holidays southern England  -  Travel Information Southern England

Dorset, Hampshire, Surrey and Sussex.

Cities in South England : Bournemouth, Gosport, Oxford, Portsmouth, Reading, Salisbury, Winchester, Windsor.

Tranquil English countryside, historic cities, pageantry and royal palaces, world-famous sites of antiquity and breathtaking coastline. Centuries of history await you in Southern England, in its ancient cities and towns, formidable castles, pretty country cottages and gracious stately homes.


car hire, holiday homes, hostels, hotels, travel agency, travel guides, transportation / traveling to south england 

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Camping & Caravanning

 Eurocampings  -  ACSI Camping Guide

Car Rental Southern England

 Holiday Autos  -   
Holiday Autos offers the best fully inclusive car hire prices. Get cheap car hire quickly and securely online with holidayautos.co.uk, the experts in online car rental.

More Car Rental Companies? See the car rental page

Holiday Homes / Apartments

    -  leading UK provider of self-catered holidays
Availability search [ refining by specifying price, pet, pub nearby, open fire, swimming pool and more possible ], special offers and brochure request.
Hampshire | Isle of Wight | Wiltshire | Bath | Kent | Sussex

 -  Holiday Lodges and Holiday Parks Britain
A short break, or weekend, at one of our holiday parks gives you a real getaway, whatever the season. You'll find well-equipped and cosily heated bungalows, lodges, chalets, apartments and caravans in beautiful forest, countryside and coastal surroundings.

  Interhome  -  Holiday homes

See for more the page Holiday Homes

Hostels / Youth Hostel

 
Hostelbookers.com is one of the worlds largest online booking services for hostels. All hostels you see here are offering realtime prices and availability.

 Youth Hostels England

Hotels in South England

 Booking - Hotels in Dorset  -  Hotel Guide Dorset 
Hotels in Bournemouth, Poole, Weymouth, Charminster, Christchurch, Dorchester, Sherborne, Blandford Forum, Winkton, Swanage, Saint Leonards, Horton, and more ...

 Booking - Hotels in Hampshire  -  Hotel Guide Hampshire 
Hotrels in Southampton, Portsmouth, Winchester, Brockenhurst, Havant, Fleet, Andover, Basingstoke, Sutton Scotney, Fareham, Lyndhurst, Romsey, and more ...

 Booking - Hotels in Surrey  -  Hotel Guide Surrey
Hotels in Gatwick, Horley, Guildford, Croydon, Richmond upon Thames, Kingston upon Thames, Farnham, Camberley, East Horsley, Chertsey, Haslemere, Charlwood, and more ...

 Booking - Hotels in Sussex  -  Hotel Guide Sussex
Hotels in Brighton, Eastbourne, Crawley, Worthing, Hove, Saint Leonards, Rye, Arundel, Chichester, Forest Row, Lewes, Bognor Regis, and more ...

 

Travel Agents / Tour Operators

Superbreak
Superbreak offer leisure hotel breaks and features 2-5 star hotels, with the majority in the 3-4 star+ rating.

Helpful Holidays  -  Holiday cottages in Devon, Cornwall, Dorset and Somerset
Destinations : North Cornwall, South Cornwall, The Lizard, End of England, Dartmoor, South Devon, Mid Devon, Exmoor, East Devon, North Devon, Somerset, Dorset, New Forest, Bath & the Cotswolds.

 
Widest choice of self-catering holidays / short breaks throughout Britain, Ireland and Europe
A self-catering holiday in one of Hoseasons' holiday lodges and parks brings a new meaning to the word freedom. From the moment you arrive you can revel in the limitless possibilities offered at every resort centre.
And with late availability and last minute booking facilities, you'll soon be experiencing the holiday of your dreams. Enjoy a weekend or short break in beautiful countryside, at some of Europe's finest beaches or forest surroundings.

 -  Create your perfect trip  -  Flight, Hotel and Car



 Tellings Golden Miller  -  coach tours and excursions
Day excursions, short breaks & holidays. English seaside resorts, special events, and more.

Travel Guides Southern England / Related books

Travel Guides South England 

Southern Counties From the Air (From The Air S.) -  Denny Rowland
Leading aerial photographer Denny Rowland takes readers on a breathtaking tour above southern England, showing the many important historic and local landmarks which make this beautiful region a favourite with both locals and visitors. The book includes chapters on Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Dorset.
Hardcover 128 pages (May 1, 2005); Publisher: Myriad Books; Language: English; ISBN: 1904736890
Coast - by Christopher Somerville
Accompanying the BBC series, Coast is not only a superbly illustrated celebration of Britain s coastal areas but a practical guide to all that they have to offer. The first part of the book is divided into the 12 coastal regions as featured in the programme, with lavish photography, maps and evocative essays. The second part is a region-by-region reference of places, people, activities, natural history, historic events and fascinating facts all clearly laid out to help you plan your own trip. Whether destined for the coffee table, your reference library or the car, Coast takes you there with charm and style.
Paperback 192 pages (July 8, 2005); Publisher: BBC Books

Transport / How do I travel to Southern England

 Bournemouth Airport 

 Hurn (BOH)
 Southampton Airport [ SOU ]
 Bristol Airport [ BRS ] -  Bristol International Airport 
 Exeter Airport [ EXT ]  -  Home of Flybe
 Cardiff (CWL)

  Opodo  -   
Flight tickets southern England, Flight tickets Bournemouth.

 

 
Book cheap flights to Southern England at ebookers and benefit from discounted airfares. View their latest offers and book your flights, accommodation, car hire and insurance online

  Airline Tickets / Bargain Flights  -  Flights to South England

 
thetrainline is the fully impartial rail ticketing website owned by the Virgin Group, Virgin Rail Group and National Express Group, providing the cheaper way to buy train tickets online. thetrainline provides fast, easy and secure access to timetables, tickets and fares for all National Rail journeys across the UK.

 - Coach Line to Southern England
You name it, they go there. National Express carries over 16 million passengers a year to 1000 different places in the UK, and thousands of others to destinations across Europe and Ireland. They run more services to and from UK airports than anyone else, and they even lay on special services to festivals like Glastonbury!

 Maps International - Maps of Southern England  
Mapsinternational.co.uk is one of the largest map shops online.
 Multimap.com - street-level maps, road maps; door-to-door travel directions; aerial photographs; and local information.


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 Travel Insurance - online travel and holiday insurance for UK and Irish residents

 Visit Southern England - Southern and South East England Tourist Board
This website covers the counties of Kent, Surrey, and East and West Sussex.

 Bournemouth
Seven miles of award-winning sandy beaches and pleasure gardens; activities including watersports, golf and go-karting; a packed events calendar through most of the year; top class attractions such as the Oceanarium, the IMAX cinema and a tethered balloon; the exhilarating scenery and heritage of Dorset and the New Forest on the door step.
  Gosport
Located on the coast of South Hampshire, a peninsula nestled between the clear blue waters of the Solent and the maritime centre of Portsmouth Harbour, Gosport's character and history have long been defined by the water
  Oxford 
Oxford is a small, diverse and lively city. The historical centre is now buzzing with a huge selection of Café's, museums, shops and theatres - or find the academic side and learn about Oxford's famous residents past and present.
  Portsmouth
Portsmouth Harbour's world class waterfront, including Gunwharf Quays, one of Europe's leading shopping and leisure waterside developments. Historic ships, submarines, museums attractions Explosion! 'Museum of Naval Firepower' in Gosport and Action Stations, complements Southsea - the city's resort district with miles of promenade, D-Day and Royal Marines museums, Piers and the new Blue Reef Aquarium.
  Reading
  Salisbury
Visit the beautiful city for its Cathedral, museums and historic houses and explore the medieval streets - tempting for their range of specialist and individual shops.
  Southampton
The south of England's number one city for an unmatchable choice in shopping, 1,000 years of history, spectacular events, great eating out and historic parks.
  Winchester
Escape to the ancient capital of England, the city that inspired John Keats and Jane Austen and was chosen by King Alfred as his capital. Unspoilt, picturesque and memorable in every way, a stopover in this quintessential cathedral city will not disappoint.
Highlights include the Farmers Markets, often the country's largest; the 900 year old Cathedral; the sunset view of the city from St Giles' Hill; a walk by the River Itchen; Jane Austen's House at nearby Chawton; Alresford's clothes shops and contemporary art galleries; one of the best conservation zoos in the country at Marwell and the Thomas the Tank Engine events at the Watercress Line Steam Railway.
  Windsor

Cuisine

The staple foods of England are meat, fish, potatoes, flour, butter and eggs. Many of the English dishes are based on these foods.

Bacon Roly-Poly, Bangers and Mash, Black Pudding, Bubble & Squeak, Cornish Pasties, Cottage Pie, Fish & Chips, Gingerbread, Hot Cross Buns, Hot Pot, Kedgeree new, Ploughman's Lunch, Roast Beef, Roast Chicken, Roast lamb, Shepherd's Pie, Sponge Cake, Toad-in-the-Hole, Tom Collins, Trifle, Yorkshire Pudding

 Traditional foods in England
The Good Food Guide 2005 - by Andrew Turvil (Editor)
The Good Food Guide continues to be the most reliable single source for the best of eating out in the UK. Its objectivity and independence have been well established for over 50 years, and its commitment to providing informative, well-written, fully researched reviews of around 1,300 of the best restaurants in the land remains undiminished. As for each new edition, the range it covers is wide, whether it is a Chinese restaurant in Liverpool, fish restaurant in Edinburgh, country-house hotel dining room in Wales, or latest opening by a high-profile chef in London. There are over 350 entries in London alone -- more than in many just-London' restaurant guides.
Paperback 784 pages (October 1, 2004)
English Food by Jane Grigson, Gillian Zeiner (Illustrator), Sophie Grigson
Paperback 400 pages; Penguin Books Ltd; ISBN: 0140273247
Favourite Pudding Recipes: Traditional Ways to a Man's Heart - Birkett Foster
Paperback 48 pages; Publisher: J Salmon; ISBN: 1898435685

History of Southern England

Just Bournemouth - Keith Rawlings
A portrait of theBournemouth and its history, including unlikely facts and photographs.
Hardcover 160 pages (October 2005); Language: English; ISBN: 1904349390
A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: Southern England v. 2 (Regional Railway History Series) 
H.P. White
The 2nd volume in the regional railway history series which describes the history of the railways in each distinctive British region. This book covers Southern England. Each volume also outlines the social and economic background which gives sense to traffic patterns, train services and even locomotive classes that were built for specific needs. Each volume has text and is complemented by maps and photographs.
Hardcover 256 pages (November 26, 1992); Publisher: Atlantic Transport Publishers; Language: English; ISBN: 0946537771
 SWMLAC  - South Western Museum, Libraries, & Archives Council
SWMLAC is the regional development agency for museums, libraries and archives, covering the counties of Bristol, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire, the Isles of Scilly and the Channel Islands.

 English Heritage
 National Trust

Music & Culture

 English folk and traditional music
Guide to Internet resources relating to English folk music
 Traditional music & Folk related links - by area

Web Portals / Search Engine / Directory

 Yahoo Dorset Directories

 Yahoo Hampshire Directories

 Yahoo Surrey Diectories

 Yahoo East Sussex Directories

 Yahoo West Sussex Directories

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