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Special
Interest & Theme Tours
Since British Tours Ltd was founded in 1958 we have provided
many tours around special interests and specific themes.
Below are some of the most frequently requested; they can
vary in length, start and drop-off points and can be a
combination of two or more subjects of particular interest
to you. Some can form a part of one of our standard day
tours or overnight tours if visiting the same regions.
Please contact
us
for more information.
Airbases
in East Anglia, WW2
Althorp
House
Antiques
Archaeology
Architectural
London
Bloomsbury
Group
British
Museum
Charles
Dickens
Children
Churchill
Crop
Circles from the Air
D-Day:
Normandy Tour by Private Plane
Da
Vinci Code, London
Da
Vinci Code, Paris
Early
Christianity
Elderly
England's
Gardens
Film
and Television
Fun
for Children
Hampstead
& Highgate
Harry
Potter Day - Overnight
Exclusive:
Houses of Parliament
Jack the Ripper
Jane
Austen
John
Wesley
Kids
Legal
London
Literary
London
London
Museums and Galleries
London
Tube Tours
London
by Night
Mary
Queen of Scots
Military
Normandy
D-Day Beaches by Private Plane
Normandy
& Mont St Michel by Private Plane
Prehistoric
Wessex
Jane
Austen's Pride and Prejudice
Princess
Diana
Special
Needs & Wheelchairs
Stately
Homes, Castles & Gardens
Stonehenge
at Dusk or Dawn
VIP,
London by Night
Vita
Sackville-West
Wine
and Beer
Winston
Churchill
William
Morris
WWll
Airbases, East Anglia
Althorp
Althorp is the ancestral home of the Spencer family, where
Diana Princess of Wales grew up and the place of her
resting. Also visit the University city of Oxford, the
picturesque Cotswolds and Shakespeare's
Stratford-upon-Avon.
Available
only during July and August.
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Antiques
Outside
London: visit the Cotswolds, a beautiful region of
unspoiled towns, pretty stone cottages and beautiful
countryside which offers some of the most romantic antique
hunting in England. The antique shops are so close to one
another that in a full day, clients can easily visit quite a
few without too much driving.
In London: visit Portobello Road Market, Camden
Passage - when open - for interesting curios, Bermondsey
Market for professionals, Jermyn Street, Bond Street and
other markets. Please let us know the day you are
interested in touring as the markets are not open every
day.
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Architectural
London
Discover the different periods of London Architecture with
your own guide: Roman Architecture, Norman Churches,
timber-framed medieval domestic building, Wren's classical
churches, Robert Adams's Eighteenth Century great houses,
the Neoclassical Architecture of John Nash and the post-1945
architecture of Richard Rogers, Norman Foster, Terry Farrell
and others.
 Virtual
reality image of 'The
Gherkin', London.
Requires Quicktime
from Apple.
Cost: same as tours of London, see rates.
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Bloomsbury
Group
In London visit Bloomsbury Square, Gordon Square,
Fitzroy Square, Lytton Street and other locations associated
with the Stephen sisters, Vanessa and Virginia, the Omega
Workshops and the homes of Virginia Woolf.
Cost: same as tour of London, see rates
Outside London visit Sissinghurst, the world
famous gardens created by Vita Sackville-West and Sir Harold
Nicholson, Knole, a magnificent house set in an
extensive deer park owned by Lord Sackville,
Charleston, discovered by Virginia and Leonard Woolf
when Virginia's sister was looking for a place in the
country and Monk's House where Virginia Woolf and her
husband Leonard lived in 1919.
Please contact
us
for options and prices.
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Charles
Dickens
 Most
places associated with Dickens - where he spent his
childhood, his holidays, his honeymoon, where he wrote his
books, the towns and the countryside that inspired him -
remain unchanged and provide added understanding of this
brilliant novelist.
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Early
Christianity
It was in 597 that Pope Gregory sent Saint Augustine to
re-establish Christianity in Britain - your tour starts with
a stone cross commemorating his landing 1,400 years ago.
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Film
and Television Locations
Harry
Potter,
Bridget Jones, New:
Pride
and Prejudice,The
Remains of the Day, Braveheart, The Inn of the Sixth
Happiness, Sense and Sensibility, Brideshead Revisited, All
Creatures Great and Small ... Britain's most historic sights
have provided the backdrops for some cinema's greatest
moments.
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Fun
for Children
 Robin
Hood and his Merry Men, Maid Marion and the bad Sheriff of
Nottingham; HMS Victory where Nelson lay wounded, Henry
VIII's battleship the Mary Rose, and HMS Warrior, England's
first armoured battleship, a lively and noisy Fort where
they can fire guns and handle swords, ever enjoyable
Legoland a short drive from Windsor Castle or one of the
many theme parks.
More
for kids ...
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Hampstead & Highgate
Visit
Hampstead and Highgate, two of London's most delightful
villages away from the hustle and bustle of town, separated
by the meadows and lakes of Hampstead Heath. Home to a great
number of writers, artists and politicians, the famous
figures who lived here include Constable, Keats and Freud to
name a few. Also visit Kenwood House - a stunning
neoclassical mansion remodelled by Robert Adam surrounded by
woodland, lakes and parkland. The house contains paintings
by Turner, Rembrandt, and Gainsborough.
Virtual
reality image of Hampstead
bookshop.
Requires Quicktime
from Apple.
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Inside the Houses of
Parliament
Experience an exclusive personal tour of the Houses of
Parliament, known as the Palace of Westminster.
More...
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Jane Austen
Visit her birthplace, the house where she died, her grave
and memorial and the towns and countryside that so inspired
her writing as well as the beautiful locations in which her
novels were made into films. New:
Pride
and Prejudice
film locations.
Quicktime panorama of Chawton,
Jane Austen's House
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John
Wesley
In
London, see the places associated with John Wesley
(1703-1791), founder of the Methodist Church. Visit the
Chapel in which he preached and his House with his
possessions on display. If you are also interested in seeing
other London sights, you can visit these places as part of a
7 hour London tour.
Out of London, visit Oxford, the oldest university city in
England, home of Christ Church, where Wesley attended
together with his brother Charles. You can visit Christ
Church as part of a 9 hour Oxford tour, or 9 hour
Cotswolds.
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 "Hands
down, my parents have repeatedly told me that the
tour, including visits to Spurgeon's Grave and
Wesley's Church was the best day of the trip"
Mr D. Poage Houston, TX
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Legal
London
Legal London can be divided into two parts - the historical
and the present day justice system. The historical tour
includes four great Inns of Court which originated in the
13th century. The present day can visit Bow Street
Magistrate Court (the lowest court in the land), the Old
Bailey, the Central Criminal Court, the House of Lords (the
highest court in the land) and the Royal Court of Justice.
With the exception of the House of Lords, the public are
able to enter these courts and see them in action.
Cost: same as tour of London, see rates.
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Literary
Tours
See the country of Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Robert
Louis Stephenson and Thomas Hardy; places associated with
Ruskin, Wordsworth, Vita Sackville-West and the Bloomsbury
group including Virginia Woolf and D H Lawrence; the homes
of the Brontes, George Bernard Shaw, Keats and Henry James
and the castle in which Rudyard Kipling lived.
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Mary
Queen of Scots
 Cousin
of the powerful Elizabeth I who was the daughter of Henry
VIII, Mary Queen of Scots is one of history's most romantic
women whose exciting but finally tragic life never lost its
fascination for writers, film producers and the public.
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Prehistoric
Wessex
 The
carefully shaped stones, the accurately horizontal lintel of
30 Sarsens, the trilithon horseshoe and the midsummer
sunrise alignment are unique to Stonehenge and make it the
most important prehistoric monument in Europe. However for
the real zealot the rich archaeological landscape offers a
large number of prehistoric temples, Neolithic harvest hills
for fertility rituals and communal tombs.
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Special
Needs
Some of England's ancient buildings are not always
accessible by wheelchair, but an increasing number of
historic sights are. See wheelchair
access
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Stonehenge
at Dusk or Dawn
In the evening after Stonehenge is closed to the public, or
at dawn, we can arrange for you to visit this awe-inspiring
prehistoric monument and walk among the giant sarsen stones
towering 21 ft (6.4 m) high and weighing up to 50 tons.
Marvel at how stones of such monumental scale were quarried,
transported and erected 5,000 years ago when the only tools
available were made of wood, bone and stone.
Feature:
Virtual Reality image of Britain's darkest mystery,
Stonehenge
- Alone at Dawn
requires
Quicktime
from
Apple
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October
to November
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Not
available
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December
to February
except
December 18th to 28th
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Sunrise
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to September
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Sunrise
or dusk
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Some advance notice is required for this tour. Cost: see
rates
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William
Morris
The greatest of the nineteenth century designers who died
over 100 years ago, created textiles, stained glass,
wallpapers and carpets to counteract the over-fussy
decoration of the Victorian era; they are timeless and as
popular now as ever they have been.
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Wine
and Beer
"The
Garden of England" grows wonderful grapes - see wine-making
at its best and taste some of the fine produce. Kent also
grows a good quality of hop, essential for brewing top
quality beer and visit to a hop farm is a most interesting
experience.
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Winston
Churchill
In London, visit the sights associated with Sir Winston
Churchill, recently voted the greatest Briton of all time.
In London see the Cabinet War Rooms, St Margaret's
Westminster where he married, Palace Gate where he lived in
London, his statue in Parliament Square and memorial in the
Abbey.
Outside London, either visit his birthplace at
magnificent Blenheim Palace and his grave at Bladon - or
Chartwell in Kent, his home from 1924 to 1965.
All sights could be visited on an overnight tour.
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