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Welcome to Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Over one million pages of information...

The 1,842,242+ pages of the British Towns and Villages Network are your guide to places to go to in UK Visitor Attractions, what to see in UK Entertainment Centres, what to do in UK Events and with over 8,500 hotels in our Hotel Accommodation section where to stay in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Within the contents you will find links to all the Region, County, City, Town, Villages and Community websites we can find or have been submitted to us and most importantly how to find UK places and how to get there.

National Gazetteers of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland

Information about English towns and villages displayed by County then Borough or District, or by Unitary Authority.

The Scottish cities, towns, villages and island communities displayed by Region, Community Council and Historic County.

The cities, towns and villages of the Welsh Communities displayed by County and County Borough.

Here we display by individual district information about the cities, towns and townlands of Northern Ireland.

The UK National Gazetteer - Find UK Places

Pakistan Floods Appeal

Over 1,600 people are reported to have died and 20 million people are believed to have been affected by the floods. In the aftermath there is now a serious risk to survivors from potentially deadly diseases, including cholera, which can spread as a result of contaminated surface and drinking water. The money raised will help fund the life saving work in Pakistan of the DEC’s Members which are the lead UK aid agencies and their partners. They need our help...

Please Donate Now, follow this link to the DEC Website

Pakistan Floods Appeal

The weather METARS displayed above are being generated by the British Towns Weather Station in Cambridge from information received via NOAA from official UK weather stations. We are now displaying the current weather conditions at all the major UK International Airports on the pages within this site. The METARS are updated automatically every 30 minutes from our weather station which is part of the St Ives website in Huntingdonshire and the district's four other principle towns being Godmanchester, Huntingdon, St Neots and Ramsey.

 

Latest images of Britain submitted by website users

me and perk in the 1960
gwyn jones and perk
by gwynfor jones
 
betws yn rhos as it was??????
betws yn rhos in the 50
by gwynfor jones
 

Gran and Grandad Selfridge
by Margaret Selfridge
 
this photo was taken outside ted daniels house looking down to hughes corner aro
middletown village 1963
by patrick james daniels
 
taken from aikins hill looking down on the slates taken around 1963
slates middletown
by patrick james daniels
 
sister columba sister marie louise outside convent
convent middletown around 1963
by patrick james daniels
 
Sun Hotel - Warkworth
Sun Hotel - Warkworth
by Michael Lynch
 
Warkworth Castle
Warkworth Castle
by Michael Lynch
 
Warkworth Castle
Warkworth Castle
by Michael Lynch
 
Lindisfarne Village from Castle Battlements
Lindisfarne Village - from Castle
by Michael Lynch
 
Puffin Cruise Boat - Amble Harbour - Northumberland
Puffin Cruise Boat - Amble Harbour
by Michael Lynch
 
Amble Harbour - Northumberland
Amble Harbour - Northumberland
by Michael Lynch
 

 

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Latest Site Updates

A full breakdown of additions and changes to the site can be found in the SITE NEWS

30/08/2010

Social Networking Bookmarks

Having spent the last few weeks experimenting with Twitter on our webiste we have now added the other social networking bookmark failities to our community level pages throughout the website; including Facebook, Delicious, Digg, Reddit and Stumble Upon. 

 

19/08/2010

More new events

Over 3,400 new events added to the 2010 National Event Diary, all of which are displayed at both national and district/brorough/UA level and of course on the venue page on this website where the event is taking place.

For most of them you will find a direct link from the event or venue details to the Ticketmaster website where you may purchase on-line tickets 

 

National Events Diary

14/08/2010

Tweet from British Towns and Villages

You may now TWEET directly from the community level pages on our wesbite and also from any of the Attractions or Event Venues. We will tweet when we post a new attraction or venue too. 

 

British Towns on TWITTER