Back Roads Great Britain (Eyewitness Travel Back Roads)

Drive 1

LIZARD POINT AND THE SOUTH

CORNWALL COAST

St Ives to Tavistock 28

4–5 days

Drive 2

HEADLANDS AND COVES

Bideford to Bodmin

Moor 38

3–4 days

Drive 3

NORTH DEVON COAST AND

EXMOOR

Taunton to Barnstaple 48

2–3 days

Drive 4

HARDY COUNTRY AND THE

JURASSIC COAST

Swanage to Sherborne 56

3 days

Drive 5

A SPIRITUAL JOURNEY

Salisbury to

Glastonbury 64

4 days

Drive 6

THE VILLAGES OF THE

COTSWOLDS

Cirencester to

Broadway 74

2–3 days

Drive 7

THROUGH THE CHILTERNS

Chalfont St Giles to

Henley-on-Thames 82

2 days

Drive 8

EXPLORING THE SOUTH DOWNS

Beachy Head to

Chichester 88

3–4 days

Drive 9

THE GARDEN OF ENGLAND

Ashdown Forest to

Battle 98

3–4 days

CONTENTS

ABOUT THIS BOOK 6

INTRODUCING GREAT BRITAIN 8

GETTING TO GREAT BRITAIN 10

PRACTICAL INFORMATION 12

DRIVING IN GREAT BRITAIN 16

WHERE TO STAY 22

WHERE TO EAT 24

THE DRIVES 26

Above Sandy Porthmeor Beach with St Nicholas chapel

beyond it on the Island, St Ives, Cornwall

PUBLISHER Douglas Amrine
LIST MANAGER Vivien Antwi
MANAGING ART EDITOR Jane Ewart
EDITORIAL Michelle Crane, Alastair
Laing, Georgina Palffy, Hugh
Thompson, Vicki Allen
ART EDITORS Shahid Mahmood,
Kate Leonard
PRODUCTION CONTROLLER
Linda Dare
PICTURE RESEARCH Ellen Root,
Rhiannon Furbear
DTP Jason Little, Jamie McNeill
CARTOGRAPHY MANAGER
Uma Bhattacharya
SENIOR CARTOGRAPHIC EDITOR
Casper Morris
CARTOGRAPHY
Stuart James, Schchida Nand Pradhan,
Zafar-ul-Islam Khan, Hassan
Mohammad
JACKET DESIGN
Tessa Bindloss, Meredith Smith
ILLUSTRATIONS
Arun Pottirayil, Pallavi Thakur,
Dev Datta
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First published in Great Britain in 2010 by
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Jacket The Seven Sisters cliffs near Beachy Head,

seen from Seaford Head, Sussex