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M18 M11 NORTH YORKSHIRE The Southeast Harrogate York EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE W. YORKSHIRE Kingston Leeds upon Hull 024 Bradford Bletchley ParkCastleford 033 Canterbury Halifax 025 Stockwood Wakefield Discovery Centre 034 Leeds Castle Huddersfield Scunthorpe Grimsby 026 Thomley Activity Centre 035 Samphire Hoe Barnsley 027 Lee Valley White Water Doncaster Centre 036 Kent and East Sussex Scenic Drive S. YORKSHIRE 028 St Albans 037 Drusilla’s Zoo Park Rotherham 029 Warner Bros. Studio Tour – The Making Sheffield LINCOLNSHIRE 038–039 Brighton Royal Pavilion and Museum Worksop PEAK of DISTRICT Harry Potter 040–041 Around Chichester Harbour: Solar NATIONAL PARK Chesterfield Lincoln 030 River and Rowing Museum Heritage Boat Trips and West Wittering 031 Aerobility DERBYSHIRE Mansfield Beach, West Skegness Sussex Newark-on-Trent 032 The Home of Charles NOTTINGHAM- Darwin (Down House) 042 Emirates Spinnaker Tower SHIRE Boston Derby Grantham Nottingham Burton upon Trent LEICESTERSHIRE RUTLAND Tamworth Leicester GLOUCESTER- BUCKINGHAM- SHIRE SHIRE OXFORDSHIRE HERTFORDSHIRE Birmingham Hinckley Corby Nuneaton Ely Thetford Kettering Coventry Rugby Redditch Wellingborough Warwick Royal Leamington Spa Northampton Bury Cambridge St Edmunds Stratfordupon-Avon Bedford Ipswich Evesham Milton Keynes Banbury Letchworth 024 Hitchin Bicester Stevenage Colchester Luton Braintree Aylesbury 025 Welwyn Garden City Clactonon-Sea 026 Chelmsford Oxford 027 Cirencester 028 Amersham St Albans Abingdon Brentwood 029 Watford High Wycombe Rayleigh Swindon Maidenhead LONDON Basildon Grays Southend-on-Sea 030 Slough Gravesend Herne Margate Windsor Dartford Gillingham Bay Marlborough Reading Sittingbourne Newbury 031 Epsom 032 Ramsgate Woking Chatham 033 Canterbury Basingstoke Leatherhead Maidstone 034 Farnborough Andover Guildford Dover Farnham Ashford 035 Crawley Royal Horsham Tunbridge 036 Folkestone Winchester Wells Salisbury M6 M6(T) WARWICKSHIRE NORTHAMPTON- SHIRE M4 M42 WILTSHIRE NEW FOREST NATIONAL PARK DORSET M1 M42 A1(M) M1 M40 A1(M) BERKSHIRE ISLE OF WIGHT M18 M1 M69 M6 M3 M62 A1(M) Loughborough M40 HAMPSHIRE SOUTH DOWNS NATIONAL PARK Southampton Havant Fareham Portsmouth Christchurch Bournemouth 042 040/041 M1 M62 M181 M4 M180 BEDFORDSHIRE M1 M3 M25 SURREY WEST SUSSEX Worthing Bognor Regis M25 Bridlington A1(M) Peterborough CAMBRIDGESHIRE A1(M) Hove M25 M23 038/039 M26 M20 King's Lynn E S S E X KENT EAST SUSSEX NORFOLK M2 Bexhill Brighton Hastings 037 Eastbourne THE BROADS SUFFOLK M20 Norwich
024 Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire Address: The Mansion, Bletchley Park, Sherwood Drive, Bletchley, Milton Keynes MK3 6EB Web: www. bletchleypark.org.uk Tel: 01908 640404 Hours: Mar–Oct daily 9.30am–5pm; Nov–Mar daily 9.30am– 4pm Dates: closed 1 Jan & 24–26 Dec and for special events (phone ahead) Entry: [D]£16.75 [C]free [A]£16.75 [12–16s]£10 under 12s – free [Con]£14.75 [Fam]£38.50 By 1939 the looming threat of war had become a reality. British intelligence was looking for a safe base well away from central London and chose Bletchley Park with its solid road, rail and teleprinter links. Posing as a shooting party, British code breakers took over the estate, and Bletchley became the nation’s best-kept secret. This government intervention rescued Bletchley from demolition, so the elegant mansion and parklands survived, and have been open to the public since 1994. The grounds are a great place for families to relax, but it’s the exhibits at these wartime headquarters that really fascinate. The Block-B centre and the famous Enigma machine help to illuminate the complexities of code breaking, and the vital role of this decryption work during the war, while an exhibition about the Lorenz cipher system that was used by Hitler, features an original machine. There are also exhibitions on Life at Bletchley Park, featuring the recollections of veterans, as well as a recreated World War II classroom. A new interactive visitor centre in Block C has an overview exhibition, a display on cyber security, a café, shop and toilets: it’s wheelchair accessible and a hearing loop system is promised soon. Visitors have the opportunity to collect an iPod Touch multimedia guide (included in the admission price) with which they can explore Bletchley Park and experience how it would have appeared during wartime. Hut 11, the Bombe Hut, has recently been restored, with life-sized video projections of the women who operated the Bombe machines. It’s worth planning ahead to join one of the revealing guided tours that give you an added insight into the house and its work. There are many collections to see and some have varying opening times, so a quick check on the website before visiting is recommended. Note that the “Colossus” replica is now housed in The National Museum of Computing in Block H, which has a seperate entry fee and is not included in the admission charge to Bletchley Park. There are two parking areas but you should choose the one to the left of the main entrance, which has eight Blue Badge bays. This is a dedicated disabled car park, close to the main entrance. There is an accessible lift to the left of the six steps that lead up to the reception. Powered scooters are permitted outdoors, and free manual wheelchairs are available to use inside the building. All the preserved buildings and exhibits that are currently open are accessible by wheelchair, and there are three accessible toilets dotted around the park. There is an audio tour of Block-B (with built-in hearing loop), with information available at the press of a button at numbered points. FOOD & DRINK aa In a converted code-breaking hut, Hut 4 Café serves ample portions of “good, hearty British food” (think cottage pie or bangers and mash), for around £7.50, plus sandwiches and cakes. The café is spacious with moveable seating and space to manoeuvre. THE SOUTHEAST 37
Page 1 and 2: THE ROUGH GUIDE to Accessible Brita
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Page 5 and 6: Contents Click on any chapter to go
Page 7 and 8: About this book Designed to be good
Page 9 and 10: HERITAGE HIGHLIGHTS IWM Duxford (E.
Page 11 and 12: Brockholes Nature Reserve (Northwes
Page 13 and 14: London 001 The Roundhouse 002 Wembl
Page 15 and 16: It’s the colour of the pitch - su
Page 17 and 18: On the site of the London 2012 Olym
Page 19 and 20: LONDON ZSL London Zoo FOOD & DRINK
Page 21 and 22: The tour starts in the MCC Museum w
Page 23 and 24: LONDON Royal Opera House FOOD & DRI
Page 25 and 26: LONDON London Transport Museum ther
Page 27 and 28: Ideas aa Art and sculpture Tate St
Page 29 and 30: 016 Westminster Abbey Address: 20 D
Page 31 and 32: hop-on/hop-off at any stop along th
Page 33 and 34: the Painted Hall and chapel. There
Page 35: 023 Horniman Museum and Gardens Add
Page 39 and 40: Parents of any disabled child will
Page 41 and 42: If you’d rather go sightseeing, h
Page 43 and 44: FOOD & DRINK aa The sizeable Studio
Page 45 and 46: In 1842, when the young Charles Dar
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Page 49 and 50: populated by grazing sheep and the
Page 51 and 52: available on request, subject to av
Page 53 and 54: Beach: Address: The Estate Office,
Page 55 and 56: Emirates Spinnaker Tower THE SOUTHE
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Page 59 and 60: and the tidal pools, as well as aro
Page 61 and 62: centre whose residents range from d
Page 63 and 64: Temple of Flora and Palladian Bridg
Page 65 and 66: 051 Haldon Forest Park, Devon Addre
Page 67 and 68: you can pre-book bikes with trailer
Page 69 and 70: Weymouth and Portland National Sail
Page 71 and 72: Octavia the octopus always draws a
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Page 79 and 80: Holkham Hall Reserve: in summer you
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Wicken Fen is one of Britain’s ol
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depending on what you most fancy se
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field Cavendish AM LE field Pentlow
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floor has a large step up to it, bu
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M6 M1 Barrow-in-Furness The West Mi
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A619 080 Peak District Scenic Drive
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a boat across it or admire it from
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084 RAF Museum Cosford, Shropshire
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Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museu
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FOOD & DRINK aa The on-site café i
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Severn Valley Railway Northwood), a
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091 Royal Shakespeare Company, Warw
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Hereford Cathedral FOOD & DRINK aa
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WWT Slimbridge mile. To take the wh
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M18 The Northwest MID LOTHIAN Berwi
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South of Grasmere you’ll pass the
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it’s a fairly steep hundred-yard
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103 Brockholes Nature Reserve, Lanc
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Southport Pier 105 Airkix Indoor Sk
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the whole site (even the sewer syst
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installations in a converted docksi
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Anderton Boat Lift Blue Badge holde
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M18 The Northeast and Yorkshire 113
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smooth, solid surfaces, although it
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Designed by Sir Norman Foster, the
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fully accessible bus, with a wheelc
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efreshments, call in at the friendl
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Betty’s Tea Rooms, Harrogate If y
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Roundhay Park of here sits The Mans
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(book in advance). The museum has a
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Yorkshire Wildlife Park 128 Magna S
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Families are particularly well serv
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Fort George (twenty degrees) onto t
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which you can reserve in advance. A
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Sitting in the heart of the Cairngo
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St Andrews itself isn’t easily ac
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(with a disabled toilet) about a hu
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all but the most limited hand funct
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provide a stunning backdrop to the
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M6 Wales ISLE OF MAN Barrow-in-Furn
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Benar, turn off the A496 just befor
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Celtic Quest Coasteering When swimm
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159 Garwnant Forest Visitor Centre,
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some of the concrete surfaces insid
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163 Wales Millennium Centre, Cardif
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Northern Ireland Oronsay Colonsay J
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mobility. If you want to visit the
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(June-Aug Sat & Sun & bank hols), a
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the lives of more than 1500 passeng
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Grand Opera House, Belfast with dis
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Ulster Museum Discovery Zones - nat
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Ideas aa Heritage Fountains Abbey (
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Useful contacts This chapter featur
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advice on available facilities for
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than state what is possible. Predic
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