Great West Way® Travel Magazine | Issue 01
The first edition of a brand-new magazine showcasing the Great West Way, Britain's newest touring route, has been launched. The Great West Way Travel Magazine features 84 pages of informative articles and stunning photography brimming with inspiration to explore further, delve deeper and uncover the essence of this unique part of England. It presents a series of inspirational themed features, articles and ideas suitable for visitors travelling along the route by road, rail, water, on bike or on foot. The magazine highlights the extraordinary variety of amazing tourism destinations and experiences along the route, each with something unique to offer. From idyllic countryside, beautifully quaint villages to elegant towns and buzzing cities, a route where creativity and culture rub shoulders with world-famous heritage.
The first edition of a brand-new magazine showcasing the Great West Way, Britain's newest touring route, has been launched. The Great West Way Travel Magazine features 84 pages of informative articles and stunning photography brimming with inspiration to explore further, delve deeper and uncover the essence of this unique part of England. It presents a series of inspirational themed features, articles and ideas suitable for visitors travelling along the route by road, rail, water, on bike or on foot. The magazine highlights the extraordinary variety of amazing tourism destinations and experiences along the route, each with something unique to offer. From idyllic countryside, beautifully quaint villages to elegant towns and buzzing cities, a route where creativity and culture rub shoulders with world-famous heritage.
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Did you know?<br />
Windsor Castle is the<br />
oldest and largest<br />
occupied castle in<br />
the world<br />
Pictured<br />
top-left (then<br />
in a clockwise<br />
direction):<br />
The Royal<br />
Crescent,<br />
Bath;<br />
Windsor<br />
Castle,<br />
Windsor;<br />
Castle Combe;<br />
Queen Square,<br />
Bristol<br />
îRoyal Crescent, Bath and Vanity Fair<br />
Reese Witherspoon spent some time in Bath filming the 2004<br />
film Vanity Fair. The movie was adapted from William Makepeace<br />
Thackeray’s nineteenth century novel of the same name and used the<br />
city’s beautiful Georgian architecture to full effect. Scenes were shot in<br />
Beauford Square behind the Theatre Royal, in the grand boulevard of<br />
<strong>Great</strong> Pulteney Street and at the sweeping Royal Crescent, a glorious<br />
semicircle of 30 golden-hued stone terraced houses.<br />
îCastle Combe and Spielberg’s War Horse<br />
This chocolate box Wiltshire village is most famous on screen for<br />
its appearance in Spielberg’s War Horse, when its main street was<br />
transformed into a Devon village whose men were heading off to<br />
war. The village’s fourteenth century market cross was bedecked in<br />
banners encouraging the locals to enlist.<br />
îCorsham and Poldark<br />
Most famously, Corsham provided a backdrop for the filming of the<br />
drama series Poldark. This pretty market town in west Wiltshire is<br />
also seen in The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, Tess of the d’Urbervilles,<br />
Larkrise to Candleford and The Remains of the Day.<br />
îMarlow, Hambleden valley and Midsomer Murders<br />
A self-guided Midsomer trail through Marlow and the Hambleden<br />
valley is new for 2<strong>01</strong>9. Covering 17 miles, this exciting trail starts and<br />
ends in Marlow, taking you through the villages of Frieth, Lane End,<br />
Bolter End, Fingest and the Hambleden valley where you will find<br />
yourself immersed in scenes from Midsomer Murders!<br />
îLacock and Cranford and Harry Potter<br />
There are no phone lines or telegraph poles in this National Trust<br />
village, making it perfect for historical TV series such as the BBC<br />
classics Cranford - when it stood in for Knutsford in Cheshire - and<br />
Pride and Prejudice, when it appeared as Meryton. The main street<br />
here has also been used in Downton Abbey and Lacock Abbey was the<br />
location of several scenes in the Harry Potter films.<br />
îWindsor Castle and Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding<br />
Not all <strong>Great</strong> <strong>West</strong> Way sites to have appeared on screen have done so<br />
in fiction. Windsor Castle was seen on millions of TV screens around the<br />
world in 2<strong>01</strong>8 when it hosted the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan<br />
Markle, now officially known as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.<br />
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