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THE GREAT NORTH COUNTRY & WALES
The Lakes combining our Peaks, Snowdonia & Viking
England
14-days
/ 13 nights - Saturday to Friday
DEPARTURE DATES & PRICES FOR YEAR 2008
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Tour Code
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Depart
Manchester
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Return
Manchester
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ENC
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Saturday
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Friday
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ENC
01
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19 Apr
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02 May
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ENC 02
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03 May
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16 May
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ENC 03
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17 May
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30 May
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ENC 04
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31 May
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13 Jun
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ENC 05
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14 Jun
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27 Jun
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ENC 06
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28 Jun
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11 Jul
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ENC 07
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12 Jul
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25 Jul
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ENC 08
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26 Jul
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08 Aug
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ENC 09
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09 Aug
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22 Aug
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ENC 10
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23 Aug
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05 Sep
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ENC 11
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06 Sep
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19 Sep
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ENC 12
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20 Sep
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04 Oct
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ENC 13
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05 Oct
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17 Oct
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Price: GBP £1795 pp twin share / GBP £1895 single room
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What
your tour price includes
- Your
accommodation for 13 nights while on the tour is included
in your tour price, and this includes both full breakfasts
and dinners
- Your
price also includes all entrance fees to attractions,
transportation, services of driver/guide-companion
and all taxes and tips other than those you may wish
to give your guide
- Airport
transfers and accommodation pre and post tour is not
included but can be reserved at a specially discounted
price.
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- Tentative Itinerary |
NIGHTSTOP
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DAY
ONE - SATURDAY
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Highlights
Lancashire and Yorkshire
Dales, York, York Minster and 'Shambles', Coxwold and Helmsley.
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Helmsley
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DAY
TWO - SUNDAY
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Highlights
Yorkshire Moors, Whitby, Captain Cook country, North Yorkshire
Moors Railway, stately home of Castle Howard.
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Helmsley
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DAY
THREE - MONDAY
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Highlights
Rievaulx Abbey, Richmond, Swaledale, the Dales, Northumbria, Highforce
waterfall, ancient lead workings, mediaeval Ripon, 7th century
cathedral, optional Prison and Police or Workhouse museums. |
Helmsley
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DAY
FOUR - TUESDAY
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Highlights
'Bath of the North' - Harrogate, Royal Horticultural Society's
Harlow Carr Gardens, Ilkley, setting of 'Calendar Girls', Holmfirth,
setting for 'Last of the Summer Wine', picturesque Holme Valley
and the High Peaks. |
High Peaks
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DAY
FIVE - WEDNESDAY
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Highlights
Pennine Mountain Snake Pass, famed dam-busters bouncing bomb dam, Pilgrim Fathers’ village of Scrooby, Mr Straw unchanged 1930s house, Lincoln.
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Lincoln
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DAY
SIX - THURSDAY
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Highlights
Historical city of Lincoln, cathedral stetting for ‘Da Vinci Code’ film, original Magna Carta, Lincoln castle. Battle of Britain Memorial flight. Antique shops of Horncastle.
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Lincoln
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DAY
SEVEN - FRIDAY
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Highlights
Robin Hood’s Sherwood Forest, fabulous Peak District, plague village of Eyam, ‘Blue John’ semi-precious stone village of Castleton, elegant spa town of Buxton.
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Manchester own expense unless linking to another tour from this hub
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DAY
EIGHT - SATURDAY
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Highlights
Chester, cathedral and
medieval shopping 'rows'. Llandudno, pier, Great Orme funicular
railway, walled harbour of Conwy, Britain's smallest house and
12th century castle.
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Conwy, North
Wales
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DAY
NINE - SUNDAY
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Highlights
Snowdonia National Park, great slate mine at Blaenau Ffestiniog,
or copper mine at Sygun, a steam train journey on half-gage railway,
woollen mill, Harlech and the Llewyn Peninsular. |
Conwy
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DAY
TEN - MONDAY
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Highlights
Caernarfon, Isle of Anglesey, Thomas Telford's famed suspension
bridge, prehistoric burial chambers and monuments, village with
the World's longest name; Llanfair.p.g, Beaumaris harbour, Victorian
gaol,Roman Army museum, 900 year old pub.
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Conwy
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DAY
ELEVEN - TUESDAY
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Highlights
Bodnant gardens, Lake Bala, Llangollen canal, Pontcysyllte
Aqueduct, Mrs Gaitskil's Knutsford, Cheshire.
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Knutsford, Cheshire
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DAY
TWELVE - WEDNESDAY
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Highlights
Holker Hall, Coniston Water, 'Old Man of Coniston', Brantwood
home of Victorian philosopher, John Ruskin. Lakes scenery, Bowness,
Windermere. |
Windermere, Lake
District
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DAY
THIRTEEN - THURSDAY
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Highlights
Wordsworth's cottage, Grassmere, Borrowdale, Buttermere,
Crummock Water, Whinlatter Forest, Keswick, Castlerigg prehistoric
Stone Circle, Lead Pencil Museum. |
Windermere
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DAY
FOURTEEN - FRIDAY
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Highlights
Windermere, Beatrix Potter home, West Yorkshire Dales, Kirkby
Lonsdale, Viking cemetery, The Three Peaks, Ribblehead Viaduct,
Settle, Austwick's geological Norber Erratics, Ingleton, Ingleborough
Hill show cave, Haworth, home of the Bronte sisters. |
Manchester
(own arrangements)
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