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This article lists the most-visited attractions in the United Kingdom, including art galleries, gardens, zoos theatres, libraries and museums. Attraction Ranking Rank
Edinburgh. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. The main site is in Edinburgh at Inverleith, with three "Regional Gardens": Benmore Botanic Garden in Argyll, formerly known as the Younger Botanic Garden. Dawyck Botanic Garden in the Scottish Borders. Logan Botanic Garden in Galloway.
List of amusement parks in the United Kingdom. Amongst the most popular amusement and theme parks in England are Pleasure Beach Blackpool, Alton Towers, Thorpe Park and Legoland Windsor. Anglo-Saxon sites in England. There are very few surviving Anglo-Saxon buildings in England, however countless artefacts from the age can be seen in museums ...
Open spaces. The floodplains for Oxford's two rivers reach right into the heart of the city, providing a wealth of green spaces. The University Parks; The University Botanic Garden; Christ Church Meadow; Port Meadow; Mesopotamia; Angel & Greyhound Meadow; Cutteslowe Park; South Park; Warneford Meadow; Punts in Oxford Theatre. Oxford Playhouse
Tourists at Buckingham Palace A tourist stall selling various London and United Kingdom related souvenirs on the edge of Trafalgar Square on the Strand. Tourism in the United Kingdom is a major industry and contributor to the U.K. economy, which is the world's 10th biggest tourist destination, with over 40.1 million visiting in 2019, contributing a total of £234 billion to the GDP.
Tourism plays a significant part in the economic life of England. In 2018, the United Kingdom as a whole was the world's 10th most visited country for tourists, [2] and 17 of the United Kingdom's 25 UNESCO World Heritage Sites fall within England. [3] VisitEngland is the official tourist board for England. VisitEngland 's stated mission is to ...
The flora of Great Britain and Ireland is one of the best documented in the world. There are 1390 native species and over 1100 well-established non-natives documented on the islands. A bibliographic database of the species has been compiled by the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. [1] The lists (spread across multiple pages due to size ...
In 2002 Plantlife conducted a "County Flowers" public survey to assign flowers to each of the counties of the United Kingdom and the Isle of Man. The results of this campaign designated a single plant species to a "county or metropolitan area" in the UK and Isle of Man. Some English counties already had flowers traditionally associated with them before 2002, and which were different from those ...