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Preston Hotels booking website, specialising in hotels in the Preston area. Includes instant, secure online booking of hotels and accommodation. Find hotels in Preston here Grantown On Spey Hotels booking website, specialising in hotels in the Grantown On Spey area. Includes instant, secure online booking of hotels and accommodation. Find hotels in Grantown On Spey here Kiltimagh Hotels booking website, specialising in hotels in the Kiltimagh area. Includes instant, secure online booking of hotels and accommodation. Find hotels in Kiltimagh here York The city of York in North Yorkshire (England) sits on the Rivers Ouse and Foss and is enclosed by medieval walls. York is noted for its wealth of churches and pubs and it is said that there is no point within the city walls where one can stand and not be able to see at least one pub and at least one church! Many of the remaining churches in York are from the medieval period, and York Minster in the city centre is the largest Gothic cathedral in Northern Europe. The city has many museums, including the Castle Museum, Yorkshire Museum & Gardens, Richard III Museum, the York Dungeon and the National Railway Museum. Other recommended attractions for visitors to York are: Clifford's Tower - the site of a massacre of Jews in 1190The Shambles - a narrow medieval street full of character and lined with shops, boutiques and tea rooms.York Racecourse - a major venue for horse racing which hosts the Ebor Handicap Meeting in August. Find hotels in York here Castleknock, Dublin Hotels booking website, specialising in hotels in the Castleknock, Dublin area. Includes instant, secure online booking of hotels and accommodation. Find hotels in Castleknock, Dublin here Stratford-upon-avon Stratford-upon-Avon is a town on the River Avon in south Warwickshire, England. The town is the birthplace and deathbed of William Shakespeare and because of its Shakespearian connections the area is a popular tourist destination, receiving about three million visitors a year from all over the world. On the banks of the Avon stands the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, home of the Royal Shakespeare Company. The RSC also runs two smaller theatres, the Swan, which is modelled on an Elizabethan theatre, and The Other Place, a black box theatre. Other tourist attractions within the town include the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and two contemporary buildings, Hall's Croft (the one-time home of Shakespeare's daughter, Susannah) and New Place, which stands on the site of an earlier house originally owned by the playwright himself. Also within the town is Holy Trinity Church, where Shakespeare was baptised and is buried. Near to the town are several other properties associated with Shakespeare: Anne Hathaway's Cottage at Shottery, the former home of Shakespeare's wife, Mary Arden's House, the former home of his mother, and farms and buildings at Snitterfield, the former home of his father Non-Shakespearean attractions include a Teddy Bear Museum, a Butterfly Farm, a Witchcraft Exhibition, the Bancroft Gardens, and The Black Swan (locally known as the 'Dirty Duck'), a pub said to be frequented by actors 'fresh from the stage'. The Stratford Town Walk and Stratford Town Ghost Walk are favourite visitor attractions. Stratford Town Walk offer a guided public walk every day of the year - even Christmas Day - to see the Shakespeare Town Houses, Grammar School, Theatres and Holy Trinity Church. The guides entertain and inform with lots of information that you could never discover from a guide book. In the evening on Mon, Thurs and Fri there is a spooky ghost walk around the historic streets to hear grisly stories of ghosts, witches, murder and mayhem. Monthly ghost cruises take place from April to October. Each year on or about Michaelmas Day Stratford hosts one of the largest Mop Fairs in the country. Six kilometres away is Charlecote Park, an historic house set in a deer park, from where Shakespeare reputedly poached deer. Eight miles away is Ragley Hall, one of England's finest stately homes and home to the Jerwood Sculpture Park. Find hotels in Stratford-upon-avon here Bury Hotels booking website, specialising in hotels in the Bury area. Includes instant, secure online booking of hotels and accommodation. Find hotels in Bury here Horsham Hotels booking website, specialising in hotels in the Horsham area. Includes instant, secure online booking of hotels and accommodation. 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Find hotels in Connemara here Colchester Colchester is a town and is the main settlement of the Essex borough of Colchester in the East of England. It has a population of 104,390 and, as the oldest recorded Roman town, makes claim to be the oldest town in Britain. Colchester is located 51 miles (83 km) north east of London and is connected to the capital by the A12 road and the Great Eastern Main Line. Find hotels in Colchester here Telford Hotels booking website, specialising in hotels in the Telford area. Includes instant, secure online booking of hotels and accommodation. Find hotels in Telford here Swords, Dublin Hotels booking website, specialising in hotels in the Swords, Dublin area. Includes instant, secure online booking of hotels and accommodation. Find hotels in Swords, Dublin here Dorchester Hotels booking website, specialising in hotels in the Dorchester area. Includes instant, secure online booking of hotels and accommodation. 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