Where in the UK is good for a city break as a wheelchair user?

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I want to have two or three nights away later in the year. I’ll be going alone, travelling by train and I use a powered wheelchair. I am after suggestions of where to go, I’d be travelling from Oxford or Reading as I live equidistant from the two.

I always go to London when I go away. I’ve been to Bath and Birmimgham several times. So prefer not those.

Somewhere there is lots to do for free/cheap close ish together as I don’t want to travel much once there.
I like theatre and galleries and just wandering around. I can wander for miles on a wheelchair charge. I love an interesting bookshop.
I’m not a foodie and I don’t like spa weekends.

Any ideas anyone?

Manchester :) lots to do and very accessable. Much more than London!

Thanks, will have a look

I've got on well in Salisbury, Winchester and York.

Although York has beautiful big paving stones spaced exactly wide enough for a manual chair wheel to stick in the crack... But with chunky powerchair tyres you should be OK.

But NB I've always been in a manual with a driver, so can do small kerbs in a way that powerchairs might not be able to.

So windy roads with pavements that suddenly narrow/have a bollard, with no drop-kerbs, haven't been the same showstopper they would be to a powerchair.

Actually @perkingfaintly it was wondering about York that made me post this thread. I went with family as a teen but I only had a manual then. Will have to do some research.

Portsmouth would be good. Good train access. It's completely flat, has the historic dockyard, a long flat seafront promenade with the Royal Marines Museum and other things on it, Southsea with lots of independent shops, cafés, bars and restaurants.... It's an interesting place.

Manchester as the tram is step-free I believe. Interesting museums such as the Lowry and Imperial War Museum.

Chester? It won European City of Access 2017 and is definitely more accessible than York.

Portsmouth is not so good if you want to visit the Mary Rose.

I’d say Brighton is a very enjoyable and accessible city for wheelchair users.
Access to the Royal pavilion is through the garden via level paths. Inside the pavilion, all of the ground floor is accessible and that's where the real jaw dropping stuff is like the Music Room and the Banqueting Room. Completely accessible loo for wheelchair user but some of the doorways in the building are narrow or have tight turns. Consequently disabled visitors get a good discount!
Opposite and a beautiful little wheel or stroll through the renovated Pavilion Gardens, is Brighton Museum and Aft Gallery. Quite amazing little Egyptian collection and well known also for art deco pieces. There's a lift so you won't miss the upper galleries or the little cafe.
About ten minutes wheel/stroll and you're in The Lands - full of shops and cafes - most of which are accessible and on the other side of North Street you'll get to The North Laine- again lots of accessible cafes and quirky shops but all a bit newer and some would say funkier and less expensive.
This is the info on the Sealife Centre from their website: Yes, disabled access is available at the aquarium. There is a disabled access entrance located through the tunnel off the beach and can be accessed via the ramp down to the beach. There is only one area of the centre itself which does not have full access and this is the auditorium, however all talks which take place in the auditorium are able to be heard in the tunnel which views the same tank and creatures. Our staff who present all the talks in the Auditorium will always leave the talk via the underwater tunnel, specifically to speak to any wheelchair users or people with pushchairs who were not able to attend the talk session upstairs.
The British Airways i360 tower is fully accessible thanks to the spacious lifts and the staff are most helpful. There is more than enough room in each of the pods for at least a couple of wheelchairs.
The are slopes along the seafront so you can get down there, find a cafe and enjoy the view. I won't pretend the slopes are easy with wheelchairs but plenty do it.
The Brighton Dome is highly accessible thanks to a refurb a number of years ago.

Liverpool has mostly top notch access with the exception of some of the independent (and nicer) restaurants and bars being housed in buildings exempt from adaptation laws.

But the majority and certainly all chains and all entertainment venues are fully accessible

Except The Cavern, obviously

Having just been to Liverpool, I was also going to say Liverpool. Lots of the museums are new or have just been redeveloped - so new accessible lifts. Plus they congregate together so you get 2 or 3 museums next door to each other. So once you have got there you are set for the day.

Even better - almost everything was free

The local train service in Liverpool is also free for wheelchair users, technically it's only free for local and resident wheelchair users but they don't check