WELCOME TO HAMMERWOOD PARK and other stately places to see and stay and the Hammerwood Comprehensive Guide
to tourist information tourism facilities in England and the UK
Please bookmark here before you go further!
Pure information - fast!!
Here's the most recent new UK site for West Country Tours
. Here's one for discovering South East England which may become one of your favourites!. Here's another for the other end of the country - less sophisticated but useful nevertheless! Here's Bronte Country and The Yorkshire Dales and the Lake District Online.During the next month we are planning to update this page with around 300 new addresses.
We hope therefore that this page will be one of the most useful
one-stop tourist resources on the Web!
Before you go to the rest of Sussex, London or more of England in the links in the rest of this section, we hope you'll join us for a tour of Hammerwood (which many have found enjoyable) Don't forget to look at our other recommended Stately Homes and Historic Houses to see in the South East, Gardens to visit and Stunning and Stately places to Stay There is also a tourguide who shows hidden England
WELCOME TO ENGLAND, SCOTLAND AND WALES
We hope you won't get distracted by the newspapers but if you want the news
Click Here forTHE TIMES
and THE SUNDAY TIMES
Don't visit until last: they seem to make my machine crash!
- Click here for what you'll find at the London Mall - good, concise and one of the most professional on the web! (includes Buckingham Palace). Please email us from here if you find sites for any of the Royal Family, Her Majesty The Queen, Prince Charles (official), Princess Diana (unofficial). Here's a schedule of Royal Engagements. here's the London Travelcard FAQ please scroll further down for yet more London details.
- Here's Brighton and what else you'll find in Sussex - an unexciting but useful resource Here's the Inter-art site and what you'll find at Eastbourne which is quieter than Brighton
- Virtual Brighton is in the real a
great place with King George IV palacial fun pavilion.
Can be crowded in summer. If you want to get out of Brighton but stay nearby you might like to stay in a real Norman Castle, which happens to be one of the best hotels in England you won't regret mailing to request a brochure - nor would you regret staying a night or two. Don't forget to give your fax number or snail-mail details.
- Here's the SOUTH EAST ENGLAND TOURIST BOARD Read here what The Times says about the Tourist Boards and the Tourist Board Crown Scheme for B&Bs This site for East Grinstead is the area's best
- OpenWorld covers the rest of England (big !!! - you might get lost!) and Eurostar Channel Tunnel details to Europe
- If you want B&B near East Grinstead we hope you'll come to Hammerwood or one of our UK Stately B&Bs but if we haven't got what you want here's The Better Accommodation Guide throughout England. It's extensive and most useful and it might fill gaps in our own stunning places to stay
- If you are interested in Antiques and Fine Art, visit Anne-Noelle's UK, European, American and Worldwide comprehensive guide to Fine art and Antiques Fairs No fancy pictures here: pure information - fast! Click here for Anne-Noelle's UK and USA Antique Centres directory. No fancy pictures here: pure information - fast!
- If you are coming to South East England to enjoy music here is Mr Hinves' Tunbridge Wells & Area Music Liaison Group Diary. No fancy pictures here: pure information - fast!
- Click here for the extensive Knowwhere Guide to the UK I enjoyed my visit and found it potentially rather useful
- Here are terminal and other details of Gatwick Airport. If you're coming to London or the rest of southern England, Gatwick's the best Airport to use. If you want to stay somewhere near but not in a town click here The following site details Airport Parking at Heathrow and Gatwick.If you're heading for a place to stay in London this looks usefulIf you are travelling anywhere in England or Scotland then enjoy the peace of staying in a stately home within striking distance of wherever you're going One step into the countryside, here's the local MacDonalds-free town of East Grinstead. See below for Airlines and discounted fares
- Click here for terminal and other details of Heathrow Airport. It's big!! If you use Heathrow and you're heading north Click here for a civilised place to stay. The following site gives details of Airport Parking at Heathrow and Gatwick. If you're heading for a place to stay in London this looks useful. If you are travelling anywhere in England or Scotland then enjoy the peace of staying in a stately home within striking distance of wherever you're going. Discounted airfares are lower down this page. Click here for details of Birmingham International Airport
- Click here for car hire from the airports and throughout the UK You've heard of AVIS but it's full of fancy graphics & thin on helpfulness. This one looks much better! There's another site with low graphics here. You might also try this car hire facility with the Association of Business Travellers and here is another address- with details of traffic jam trouble spots. Please let us know what you think of these! Enquirieshave started to come about bicycling from the airports: if you're interested we have no formal details but here's a page from which to start. If you don't want to drive but want to be driven cut a dash and do it in style both in England and Europe It looks fun!
- The recently improved and most ambitious Unofficial National Trust Guide to England seems exhaustive
- Rather special cottages, in the Lake DistrictLonglands at Cartmel are here
For the best and fastest loading weather maps and satellite pictures for the whole of Britain, click here - but ignore the weather description - it's for the Shetland Isles north of Scotland and usually infinitely worse than everywhere else. (However, at present you can't tell here what the weather will be - we're paying the price of ecological change!) Hardy souls should click here to visit the Shetlands Click here for two places to stay on the way from the airports to the islands and here for B&B en route going north. There's a RAVING GOOD NEW SITE for the Scottish Highlands with the best maps on the web. with an extensive section for Cromarty. There's over 60+ Scottish Links to help plan your trip here. Click here for more Scotland Travels site and here for events in Glasgow
For the opposite end of the country the Isle of Wight in the south is a favourite summer seaside spot The Isle of Wight Council is sponsoring events on the Island. The County Press will soon be expanding
their entry to include weekly news of the Island. Click here for somewhere to stay in Hampshire on the way from the airports to the Isle of Wight and here for places to see throughout Hampshire. To the west is Torbay: details below. East of Hampshire is West Sussex - here is Chichester and district on the coast and here is a real Norman castle to stay in nearby
Click here for links to UK online Museums
The British Tourist Authority have just launched their site here Other tourist board sites in Englandand yet more interesting links follow . . .
- East Anglia Tourist Board
- West Country Tourist Board See also two sites for Devon below and Cornwall here
- Yorkshire & Humberside Tourist Board This accompanying site isn't the tourist board: Click here for Hebden Bridge Web featuring our Yorkshire Pennine small town. The chap who asked for inclusion seemed rather go-ahead but we haven't yet browsed the site. Please email your comments.
- East Midlands Tourist Board
- Northumbria Tourist Board
Sites run by local authorities - often non-commercially - and can be better than the Tourist Boards . . .
Devon is a favourite holiday destination in the South WestTowns & Attractions of Devon looks a nice place to venture. There's another site we've just heard about here as a a 'local' site for mid-DevonNearby on the South Coast here's Torbay - (that's Torquay, Paignton and Brixham) which is the UK's most popular staying resort.
Click here to find the tourism section of Birmingham City Council
Click here for Glasgow City Council in Scotland
More interesting UK links . . .
If you would like a URL to your site here please E-Mail from here: latrobe@mistral.co.uk
Go to the 3rd map here for a useful and quick loading map of the UK
- Cheltenham - Centre for the Cotswolds - An unofficial guide If you would like to stay in a Stately Home within striking distance Click here
- This is another London site linked to a really useful central London hotel near Hyde Park with excellent travel details, London tourist information and a London map and: http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/~bsb/welcom.htm - this server is in Poland. Islington is a pretty hot place in London!
- If you're interested in heritage, visit the Pavilions of Splendour Home Page
- /travmag/ is the new off-line printed travel magazine. It is supported by a comprehensive on-line support platform to help you on-line.
- If you want your mouth to water here's Wine and Dine Travel Pages
- The Association of British Travel Agents ABTA is here
- Hotel-UK is a free of charge hotel reservation service including UK tourist excursions, flight offers, sporting events, and much more.
We hope the above might be useful! We would be most grateful if you would bookmark this page and from here e-mail your opinions on how we should most usefully describe or include the sites on this page and don't forget to visit Hammerwood!
When using the Channel Tunnel don't forget you'll need to change your pounds into franks and then to marks or guilders - and each time pay a money-changer for his pranks to do it. If Member of Parliament Quentin Davies (who recently stood up for what his conscience told him to do) succeeds, European tourism upon which so much of our heritage depends will get a welcome shot in the arm. Click here for his arguments for a Common European Currency. If he was MP for my area I'd think of changing party and vote for him!
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Other UK guides
We hope we've got everything here - but no-one can hope to do that so: -Click here for another page of resources donated by a friend!
Cick here for an extensive London and the UK Guide with useful directories of theatres, events and entertainments. NooMedia have authored some pages for a London guide featuring restaurants, clubs, fashion and other related stuff - so here it is! Click here for the Comprehensive London linkpage
The Go Explore travel resource - ...where frequent travelers turn. This site includes database integration to destination information, airline reservations, hotels, rental cars, restaurants, business services, proximity searching, user profiles, and personal itineraries...
Here is a guide to England town by town with guestbook comments - goodness knows what you'll discover.
If these guides fail - you might find another at the Clearinghouse warehouse.
Marketing resource, a fund of helpful information and miscellaneous
Fax lists of UK Hotels and Travel Agents - and a good deal more!
Europe and Ireland here
Ireland, France, Italy, Germany and Portugal here so farAnd now for the rest of the World!!! . . .
We are developing the Comprehensive World Tourism Guide hereFor honeymoon and anniversary travel, click here for the World Wide Wedding page
Click here for the Discount Air Fare centre
An undercount of accesses since May 1996 + 1512 since April.
Text only viewing isn't counted!
Airlines operating in Europe
thanks to Marc-David's Airlines of the WEB - click here for more extensive range of sites. Each may contain details of special offersNorth America
- Air Canada (Official Site) -- Air Canada international and domestic service
- American Airlines -- US based international and domestic service
- Canadian Airlines International -- Canadian based international and domestic service
- Continental Airlines (Official Site) -- US based international and domestic carrier
- Continental Airlines (Unofficial Site) -- Info on Continental in the UK
- Delta Air Lines