Three Day Break

[ethandron]

Looking for somewhere in England, not the coast, for the above. Somewhere which has a bit of interest to mooch around, maybe a short drive to other interesting places. A nice interesting hotel or b&b but not one of your fancy pants ones. Maybe a market town or something like that? Saw Ludlow mentioned on the tv and thought that looked nice. Or maybe the welsh English border?
Done the Cotswolds, Oxford, London, Bath, Chester, Liverpool, Manchester.
Any personal recommendations please?

[Zacs-Master]

York.

[Prudie]

Bradford-on-Avon

[spathiphyllum]

2nd for York

[Rockrose]

Norwich and the broads

[Rockrose]

Chester

[Zacs-Master]

They've done Chester, love.

[kvalidir]

I live near Ludlow, it's lovely, very good food if you're into dining out. I can second York as well x

[MargoTester]

Stratford upon Avon. Take the hop on hop off bus and do the whole trip and then decide what you want to go back and see. I found it really interesting

[ethandron]

Should have said, relatives in York so know it quite well.
Norwich, hmm, never thought of that.
Thought you were joking Prudie, never heard of Bradford on Avon so looked it up, looks lovely.

[bhg481]

Wells, Somerset. Nice town with a stunning cathedral. Haynes Motor Museum and Yeovilton air-museum close by and a couple of National Trust properties not too far away.

[sunny-dave]

Malmesbury - fascinating place in a lovely area - a bit off the main tourist track too.

[DTCwordfan]

Devon Nobody Inn - http://www.nobodyinn.co.uk/

Comfortable
Home food
285 whiskies
17th Century
20 mins to Exeter,
20 minutes to Bovey Tracy and the Devon Guild of Crafts
30 minutes to Moretonhampstead or Dartington
and plenty else, not least Dartmoor. The other inn is the Rock Inn on the moor at Haytor (above Bovery).

[LadyCG]

Ely? Nice Cathedral. Only a short train ride to Cambridge.

[DTCwordfan]

also got Bury St Edmunds not too far away from Ely as well - or Kings Lynn.

[TonyV]

Brighton is nice lots of things to explore

[anneasquith]

Newcastle. ?

[TonyV]

Chepstow is also nice

[TonyV]

nice this time of year if you go to monmouth

[Sipowicz]

Keswick.

[DTCwordfan]

Sipowicz - or the Black Swan at Ravenstonedale... about 10 mins off the M6 http://www.blackswanhotel.com/ keswick and the western Dales, Kirkby Stephen, Sedbergh, Appleby for mooching.

more expensive, there's the Drunken Duck Inn between Hawkshead and Ambleside