Help for planning your tour of Britain

Planning a visit to Britain is a simple matter if you equip yourself with a selection of reliable guide books and maps. On this page we list some recommended titles from the very wide range that is available.

They can be obtained from many booksellers in Britain and abroad, and prices vary in different countries.

The books may also be ordered from the British Tourist Authority, Department Cl4O, 64 St. James’s Street, London SWI INF at the prices shown below—which include postage by surface mail and packing. (The prices are given in British pounds and new pence).

Touring

The Blue Guides to England (£4.15), Scotland (£3.60), Wales (£3.60), Ireland (£3.60). Detailed information about all places and buildings of tourist interest. Town plans, ground plans of cathedrals and castles, routes, sections on history and architecture.

Baedeker’s Guides to Britan (£2.45).

Comprehensive area guides, with maps, to Southern England and East Anglia, Central England and Wales, Northern England.

Ward Lock’s Red Guides (90p).

Useful illustrated guides to popular touring areas in many parts of Britain.

Lett’s Motor Tour Guides (50p).

This series covers a variety of areas in the form of descriptive motoring itineraries with sketch maps.

Collins Holiday Guides: England / Wales, Isle of Man/Scotland (45p).

Compact little pocket guides of about 100 pages each.

North Wales, Mid Wales, South Wales (20p each). Well produced paperback gazetteers, illustrated in colour, with maps and town plans. (Wales Tourist Board.) National Trust List of Properties (45p). The National Trust owns some of the most beautiful stretches of countryside and some of the finest country mansions and historic build ings in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Descriptive notes and opening times for all the Trust’s properties.

Bartholomew’s Road Atlas of Great Britain (£1.25). Covers the country in convenient book form on a scale of five miles to an inch. Street plans of major cities.

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Nicholson’s Guide to The Thames (80p). A first-class guide, following every mile of the Thames from source to mouth. A 2i inch-to-mile map of the river runs right through the book, accompanied by details of places of interest, hotels, restaurants, camping sites and boat hire, as well as notes on fishing and natural history.

London

Visitor’s London (40p). London Transport’s alphabetical gazetteer of places of interest in and around the capital, with details of how to get there by bus or underground.

Nicholson’s London Guide (60p).

A pocket guide to London’s sights, entertainments and transport services, with maps and street index.

London Your Sightseeing Guide (36p). Comprehensive guide to places of interest, excursions, walks, shopping, entertainments, hotels and restaurants, Off-Beat Walks in London (25p).

One of the “Discovering Guides”, describing walks in various parts of London which will lead you to places of interest unknown to most visitors.

See More of London (35p). A brief eye-opener to some of the curiosities you might otherwise miss while ex ploring London. Illustrated.

Discovering London for Children (40p), A selection of 25 places of special interest for children.

London A Picture Book to Remember Her By (£2.20). A book to consult when exploring London

and a handsome souvenir of your visit.

Special Interests

Historic Houses, Castles and Gardens (44p). Britain has hundreds of fine houses, castles and gardens open to visitors and this invaluable annual publication lists them under counties, with brief descriptive notes and details of opening days and times, bus routes and places for light refreshments—and, in many cases, illustrations.

Museums and Galleries (44p). The companion guide to Historic Houses, on the same plan and with the same clear lay-out of information.

The “Discovering Guides’’. Ad mirable series of pocket illustrated guides, expertly compiled and written, full of information and practical detail. Titles include Discovering Brasses and Brass Rubbing (35p), Discovering English Traditions and Customs (40p) and Discovering English Gardens (40p).

The “Shell" Nature Lovers’ Atlas (50p). Indicates nature reserves, zoos, geological sites, etc. Also The “Shell” Garden Book (£1.60).

The “Shell" Golfers’ Atlas (50p).

Details of golf courses in Great Britain which are open to non members.

The BP Book of Go As You Please Holidays (60p). Excellent and es sentially practical guide to “different” holidays renting holiday homes, camping, caravanning, boating, holiday camps.