London
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Five hotels near King’s Cross and St Pancras International, from Premier Inn to Travelodge, plus the free British Library, Coal Drops Yard and the Harry Potter Shop nearby.
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How to get from Dover cruise port to London by train, coach or private car, and when a door-to-door private transfer is the easier choice.
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Five weekend trips from London by train, from Bath and York to Brighton, the Cotswolds and Edinburgh, with routes, prices and booking links taken from official sources.
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Forty Hall in Enfield is a free Jacobean manor house built by a future Lord Mayor of London, set in a 273-acre estate above the buried remains of a Tudor royal palace.
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Hall Place in Bexley is a Tudor merchant’s house with a red-brick 17th-century wing, a Second World War message-interception past and free gardens beside the River Cray.
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Free to enter and gloriously overgrown, Abney Park is a Victorian garden cemetery holding more than 200,000 burials, from Salvation Army founder William Booth to the Welsh nurse Betsi Cadwaladr.
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Five thousand years of history in five places. From a Neolithic stone circle to the Roman frontier, these are the British World Heritage Sites that best explain how Britain came to be.
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From a Turbine Hall sound installation to a Duveen Galleries commission, these are the free exhibitions in London right now, with dates and costs checked against each venue’s own website.
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Which parts of the Tube are shut this weekend? A plain-English guide, line by line, refreshed every week with the latest from TfL.
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Three Michelin-starred restaurants, a Bib Gourmand bistro and one Punjabi family legacy across Hammersmith, Chiswick, Richmond and Southall, each checked against a primary source and set in its history.