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The cooking is unique, and so is the English pub. This chapter serves as an at-a-glance reference to the absolute best — the best of the best — that England has to offer. In the categories that I outline, you can find some of the things that make traveling in England so much fun and so endlessly fascinating. I discuss each of these places in detail later in this book; you can find them in their indicated chapters, marked with the Best of the Best icon that accompanies this paragraph. The Best of Legendary London London is one of the world’s great cities, and I give it plenty of coverage in this book because almost every visitor to England heads here first.

Places like Dartmoor National Park in Devon (see Chapter 17), North York Moors and Yorkshire Dales national parks in Yorkshire (see Chapter 21), and Lake District National Park in semi-remote Cumbria (see Chapter 22) are all great places for you to experience the most romantic landscapes of England. The Best Shopping London is one of the world’s greatest shopping cities, and my credit cards aren’t doing all the talking. From mighty Harrods to the super-chic boutiques of Bond Street, from the 200-year-old shops on Jermyn Street to the wonderland of bookstores on Charing Cross Road, London offers a seemingly endless array of goods and goodies.

England has many half-timbered Tudor and Elizabethan domestic and commercial buildings. This method of construction used brick and plaster between visible wooden timbers. ߜ Elizabethan (1553–1603): The Renaissance brought a revival of classical features, such as columns, cornices (prominent rooflines with brackets and other details), and pediments (a decorative triangular feature over doorways and windows). The many large houses and palaces of this period were built in an E or H shape and contained long galleries, grand staircases, and carved chimneys.