By Rail or Overnight
2–3 Day Trips from London
✦Two and three nights — return by Sunday evening✦
- Brecon Beacons & Hay-on-Wye
- Edinburgh — Caledonian Sleeper out, two days in the Old & New Town, climb Arthur's Seat for the Forth views, day trip to North Berwick or Roslyn, sleeper home.
- Fort William & Glenfinnan — Caledonian Sleeper to the foot of Ben Nevis. Glenfinnan Viaduct (the Harry Potter bridge) on the Jacobite steam train, Glen Nevis valley walks, sleeper home.
- Glasgow & Loch Lomond — Mackintosh, the Burrell Collection, the Necropolis, and a Sunday day-trip out to Loch Lomond — Scotland's grittier, more interesting city.
- Isle of Wight
- Lake District
- Liverpool — Beatles, Albert Dock, two cathedrals at the ends of Hope Street, ferry across the Mersey, and the most famous water frontage outside Venice.
- Lyme Regis & Jurassic Coast
- Manchester & the Peak District — Northern Quarter indies, Castlefield Roman fort, the world's first industrial museum, Sunday day-trip into the Peak District for proper hills.
- Newcastle & Hadrian's Wall — Quayside under seven Tyne bridges, Baltic for art, Tynemouth seafront, day-trip out to Hadrian's Wall — the Romans' northern frontier.
- North Norfolk Coast
- Northumberland Coast
- Penzance & St Ives — Night Riviera sleeper from Paddington to Penzance, the south-west tip of England — St Michael's Mount, Cape Cornwall, Tate St Ives, Land's End.
- Snowdonia
- York & the North York Moors — Goes deeper than the day trip — full walls walk, Castle Howard for a Saturday, and a Sunday day-trip to the North York Moors steam railway.
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