October UK city break ideas please!

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Thanks to our amazing MIL, DH & I can go away for 2 nights without the DC in the October half term.

Any ideas?? I guess it needs to be somewhere which is not weather dependent.

Bath, York, London or Edinburgh. I guess it depends where abouts in the country you are and how you plan on getting there.

It depends what you want to do.

Do you want to go to the Theatre? London, Manchester, Birmingham.

Arts / museums - London

Actually London for anything and everything

History and trains - York

Sorry I don't know much about Scotland but I imagine Edinburgh would be good.

It depends what you want to do.

Do you want to go to the Theatre? London, Manchester, Birmingham.

Arts / museums - London

Actually London for anything and everything

History and trains - York

Sorry I don't know much about Scotland but I imagine Edinburgh would be good.

It depends what you want to do.

Do you want to go to the Theatre? London, Manchester, Birmingham.

Arts / museums - London

Actually London for anything and everything

History and trains - York

Sorry I don't know much about Scotland but I imagine Edinburgh would be good.

London, Manchester or Liverpool- whichever has a play or gig or restaurant you fancy.

Liverpool. It has plenty indoor and outdoor activities, try to avoid dates with big concerts of football matches as the cost will go up, or you can stay just outside the city cheaply and drive 20 mins in.
Some ideas here
http://www.donthibernate.co.uk/liverpool/

Some of the Gems
Speed boat ride around the historic dock
https://liverpoolwatersports.org.uk/
Williamson tunnels
https://williamsontunnels.com/
Western approaches War control room, hidden under the city streets
https://liverpoolwarmuseum.co.uk/
Most Museums are free.
Liverpool has a couple of beaches if the weathers nice
http://www.visitnewbrighton.com/
See the Iron Men at Crosby
https://www.visitsouthport.com/listing/crosby-beach/24456101/

Southport is a short train rind from the city, its a Victorian sea side town
http://www.donthibernate.co.uk/day-or-evening-trip-to-southport/
Knowsley safari Park
https://www.knowsleysafariexperience.co.uk/
Knowsley Hall is a Large Stately home rarely open to the public but it does open several times a year ( Check On line), often used as a film set.
https://knowsley.com/

Approx where do you live? You don't want to spend it all travelling.
And what do you like to do?

We are in a London borough. We’ve spent one night at York before & that clearly wasn’t long enough. I’d love to go back to Edinburgh but I think much too far for just two nights.

Live near London so already been to lots of theatre shows. Do love history though, old fashion cobbled streets

Stay in Durham and drive out to the Northumberland coast in the day time.

For history and cobbles go to York. Go by train in the morning, drop bags at left luggage and head for the railway museum.

Pick up bags and take to hotel / B and B head and get lunch somewhere, there is a market near the shambles, if the weather is good buy food from the stalls, otherwise find a cafe, spend the afternoon wandering around the centre.

Shower and change, go out for dinner and a ghost walk / hunt.

Day 2 Castle museum and Jorvic centre 1 in the morning the other in the afternoon, a walk on the walls and then an evening kitty hunt.

If you do go to York there’s a beautiful park in between the station and town centre, which often has birds of prey that you can pay a small fee to hold. It’s brilliant.

Cardiff! Easily accessible from London and loads to do x

From London for two nights with not too much travelling but good amount of history:

Oxford - Bodleian Library, Ashmolean Museum, punting, Pitt Rivers Museum, colleges, Bridge of Sighs, Oxford Castle

Cambridge - Kings College Chapel, Mathematical bridge, punting, Bridge of sighs, colleges, Wren Library

Bristol - SS Great Britain, Banksy / street art tours, M Shed, Cabot Tower, St Nicholas’ Market, Red Lodge Musuem, Bristol Museum

Bath - Roman baths, Bath Abbey, Pulteney Bridge, Thermae spa, Jane Austen Centre, Royal Crescent, The Holburne Museum, House of Frankenstein

Canterbury - Canterbury Cathedral, Westgate Gardens, Sir John Boys House and Bookshop, St Augustine’s Abbey, Beaney House of Art and Knowledge

Brighton - Royal Pavillion, The Lanes, Brighton Pier, i360, Brighton Musuem and Art Gallery, Brighton Flea Market, Beacon Mill

Chichester - Chichester Cathedral, Weald Living Musuem, Novium Museum, Bishop’s Palace Gardens, Pallant House Gallery, Tinwood Estate Vineyard

Winchester - Winchester Cathedral, The Great Hall, Winchester City Mill, Westgate Musuem, Jane Austen’s House, Hinton Ampner

Salisbury - Salisbury Cathedral, Old Sarum, Mompesson House, Old Wardour Castle, Stonehenge and Avebury

Stratford upon Avon - Shakespeare’s Birthplace, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Anne Hathaway’s Cottage, Bancroft Gardens, Tudor World, Holy Trinity Church

Liverpool
Brighton

Oxford and Cambridge are both easy to get to by train, compact, and walkable with good museums and galleries as well as outdoors activities.

Cambridge?
Suffolk coast?

Very impressive Cherryassam I’m going to keep that.

You forgot Windsor & Eton :)

Wow you lot are amazing!! Already go to Canterbury (LOVE it) & we are going to Bath for a few days with DC in the holidays (will keep your suggestions @cherryassam. Looks like York is the front runner. Love the itinerary @sashh

If you go to York have a walk along the river. Or go for a cycle ride along the disused railway line. It has three parkruns if that's your thing. Only two hours from London so it's a good place to go if you are short of time.

Cardiff is also really good with loads to do and is also only about two hours from London on the train.