Tell me of 10 uk attractions/landmarks that my children shouldn't miss out on.

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Ill start.

1. Buckingham Palace
2. House of Commons
3. Windsor Castle
4. Hampton Court Palace
5. Llangollan cannal
6. Edinburgh castle
7. Hadrian's wall
8. Culloden battlefield
9. Royal Mile

10. Cairngorms

10 places my children have enjoyed most ( but at different stages of childhood from 4-16):

Tower bridge experience
Titanic museum Belfast
Giants causeway
Churchill war rooms
Rhs Wisley
Catching random small boats between places in Cornwall
Alnwick gardens
Whipsnade zoo
York railway museum
Watching touring car races at Donington

Wellow long barrow, the hill is not too big and there is an ice cream hut by the tiny car park. Take a torch for exploring.

Greenwich foot tunnel, lifts still being restored but it echoes and leaks a bit so you know you are under a big river. When you get to Greenwich park you can have a picnic on the meridian

Cerne Abbas giant, because it is a big willy

Lacock if your kids are into Harry Potter

1. Long Mynd and Stiperstones
2. Martello Tower at Dymchurch
3. Rye Harbour nature reserve
4. The paddling pool at St Anne's on Sea (if you can find it and it's still there)
5. Devil's Punchbowl
6. The house that was used for Green Knowe
7. Matilda the Musical
8. Dover Castle
9. Boat trip round Anglesea

10. Lake Windermere and Peel island

Drystone wall question: these only exist in the Uk.

On that more, the 'right to roam' - you cannot go wandering in farms abroad, but in the UK you can.

Here's a few if mine :

Anglican cathedral, Liverpool
Howarth
A football stadium
Cricket match
York minster
A village (olde worlde)
Bolton Abbey
Chatsworth

Next couple years? I would-

Keep all these suggestions.
When thinking about doing it look through them together and see what you all fancy.
Have a good time!

Sets!:

1. Black Country Living Museum
2. Skara Brae & standing stones & Scapa Flow & amazing shops in Kirkwall
3. York Minster & Jorvik museum
4. Natural History / Science / British Museums
5. Portsmouth Historic Dockyard & Spinnaker Tower
6. Sennen Cove, Goonhilly, Flambards, Eden Project
7. Puzzlewood & Clearwell Caves
8. Botanic Gardens, Cambridge plus rest of Cambridge
9. @Bristol (science museum) & SS Great Britain & Clifton suspension bridge

10. Isle of Wight everything

Mine have loved Cardiff Castle, punting in Cambridge, the National Museum of Scotland, The Naval Dockyard in Portsmouth, taking a hovercraft to the Isle of Wight, running wild on beaches (Pembrokeshire, Bournemouth or the north coast of NI), going to a Christmas fair (eg Winchester) travelling by train across the Forth Bridge and Paulton's park. If you ask them about the best bit of any holiday though, it'll be some rubbish they got stuck to a magazine or an especially interesting hand drier at some service station

Whitby Abbey
Royal crescent, Bath
Angel of the North.
Glastonbury Tor.
The Electric Brae.
Concorde museum, Filton, Bristol.
Camera Obscura (Edinburgh or Bristol).

Ten places my brother and I loved between 7 and 12:

1. Chester Mountain Zoo
2. Bamburgh Beach
3. Warkworth Castle
4. The moors - damming streams and cooking on a primus stove
5. Going up Snowden
6. British Museum
7. Hancock Museum, Newcastle
8. Belas Knapp
9. Snowshill Manor

10. Longleat

I think that with a country with as much history as the UK there is a lot to say for the idea of getting to know the history of one area in depth.
Where I grew up we had neothlic burial chambers, standing stones, Iron Age hillforts, medieval castles and industrial revolution canals.
None of these would make top ten lists but understanding how to read the landscape and how it was shaped over the centuries is really valuable.

Pitt Rivers museum in Oxford
Kenilworth Castle
Richmond Park
Lindisfarne

And another vote for Snowshill

Bamburgh Castle and beach
Glencoe
Holy Island of Lindisfarne
Isle of Skye
Cragside (especially in May/June)
Hadrian's Wall
Luskentyre
Road to the Isles

Beamish museum

Love the Beamish Museum. The Bude Tunnel has to be number 1 though as a pp says 8th Wonder of the World

Great thread.

Adding to the suggestions - Sutton Hoo (Suffolk) and Royal Academy Summer Exhibition because anyone can enter.

Off the top of my head

London

1. Tate modern
2. Wobbly bridge
3. Tower of London
4. A market e.g. brick lane market, or Broadway market

Scotland

1. Edinburgh Castle
2. Loch ness

Ireland

1. Giants Causeway
2. Blarney stone

Rest of UK

1. Lands end

10. Stonehenge

I'm sure there are many more natural wonders etc, but these were the ones I thought of first.

Too many castles could get boring. Hampton court is alright as it has a maze, which is my cheeky number 11.

And Ironbridge Gorge Museums.

Norman castle
National trust house ( Blicking Hall)
Walk on windswept beach ( North Norfolk)
Sailing boat (Broads)
Steam train (Sheringham)
Mountain (Highlands)
Lake (Loch or Lake District)
Harbour with little boats (lots of nice ones)
Rowing boat on a river (Flatford Mil)
Cave (Peak District)
Seaside (loads of nice ones, Lyme Regis, Old Felixstowe)
Pebble beach (apparently it's a uniquely British landscape) Aldeburgh
Picnic in water meadows (Cambridge)
Punting (Cambridge)
Museum (lots of nice one but British Museum if near London)
Lunch in pub garden

Places in brackets are suggestions but there are lots of equally lovely places to visit.

Beamish museum
Lindesfarne (Holy Island)
Whitby
Bamburgh castle
Alnwick Gardens
Edinburgh castle
Vindolanda
The Lake District

Puzzlewood
Hovercraft to the Isle of Wight
Stonehenge
Greenwich Painted Hall
Silchester
Lincoln Cathedral
HMS Victory
Osborne House
Brixton Market
Snowdon

Drayton Manor
Paultons park
Longleat esp drive through monkey enclosure
Science museum
Natural history museum
Travel the underground and the dlr
Any beach
Trampolining
Try rock climbing/boulders
Go ape (moors valley is a good one)
Thames boat

Houses of Parliament
Durham Cathedral
York Minster
Stonehenge
Fountains Abbey
Bath (the whole place )
Edinburgh Royal Mile
Bamburgh Castle and coast

@shylatte

Giant's Causeway

Just be warned, pictures of it are heavily filtered. "Is that it?!" ds12 lamented on the tour bus just as we pulled up.

You can’t see the stones from the car park/bus stop so I can imagine not being overly impressed with the Visitors Centre!

Each to their own - my kids loved it and the stories behind it.

post, you can see them from the bus that takes you from the visitors centre down to the stones. Of course everyone to their own, just putting the warning out though 😊