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Political, religious and regal power has emanated from WESTMINSTER and WHITEHALL for almost a millennium. It was Edward the Confessor who first established Westminster as London's royal and ecclesiastical power base, some three miles west of the City of London. The embryonic English parliament met in the abbey in the fourteenth century and eventually took over the old royal palace of Westminster. In the nineteenth century, Whitehall became the "heart of the Empire", its ministries ruling over a quarter of the world's population. Even now, though the UK's world status has diminished, the institutions that run the country inhabit roughly the same geographical area: Westminster for the westminster and whitehall politicians, Whitehall for the civil servants.

Its monuments and buildings also span the millennium, and include some of London's most famous landmarks - Nelson's Column , Big

Ben and the Houses of Parliament , Westminster Abbey and Buckingham Palace , plus two of the city's finest permanent art collections, the National Gallery and the Tate Britain Gallery . Since it's also one of the easiest parts of London to walk round, this is a well-trodden tourist circuit, with all the major sights within a mere half-mile of each other and linked by two of London's most triumphant avenues, Whitehall and The Mall .

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  For England's northeastern region - in particular the counties of Northumberland and Durham - the centuries between the Roman invasion and the 1603 union of the English and Scottish crowns were a period of almost incessant turbulence. - England
  

• Cotswolds and Somerset England Travel Videos
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  The rolling green swards of Gloucestershire and Somerset , a wedge of land linking the Midlands with the West Country, encapsulate a vision of rural England which has very largely survived the inroads of modern urban culture. - England
  

• West Midlands and the Peak District England Travel Videos
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  The factories of the West Midlands were the powerhouses of the Industrial Revolution and Birmingham , Britain's second city, was once the world's greatest industrial metropolis. - England
  

• London England Travel Videos
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  With a population of just under eight million, London is Europe's largest city, spreading across an area of more than 620 square miles from its core on the River Thames. - England
  

• Cumbria and the Lakes England Travel Videos
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  The Lake District is England's most hyped scenic area, and for good reasons. - England
  

• Hampshire Dorset and Wiltshire England Travel Videos
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  The distant past is perhaps more tangible in Hampshire, Dorset and Wiltshire than in any other part of England. - England
  

• Northwest England Travel Videos
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  Within the northwest of England lie some of the ugliest and some of the most beautiful parts of the country. - England
  

• Devon and Cornwall England Travel Videos
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  At the western extremity of England, the counties of Devon and Cornwall encompass everything from genteel, cosy villages to vast Atlantic-facing strands of golden sand and wild expanses of granite moorland. - England
  

• Yorkshire England Travel Videos
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  Few visitors pass through Yorkshire , England's largest county, without spending time in history-soaked York , for centuries England's second city. - England
  

• East Anglia England Travel Videos
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  Strictly speaking, East Anglia is made up of just three counties - Suffolk, Norfolk and Cambridgeshire - which were settled by Angles from Holstein in the fifth century, though in more recent times it's come to be loosely applied to parts of Essex too. - England
  

• East Midlands England Travel Videos
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  Many tourists bypass the four major counties of the East Midlands - Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Lincolnshire - on their way to more obvious destinations, and although there's much to savour it's true they miss little of overriding interest. - England
  

• Oxford and around England Travel Videos
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  Arching around the peripheries of London, beyond the orbital M25, the "Home Counties" of England form London's commuter-belt. - England
  

• Surrey Kent and Sussex England Travel Videos
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  The southeast corner of England was traditionally where London went on holiday. - England