Introducing Coventry
The city was blitzed so badly in WWII that the Nazis coined a new verb ‘Coventrieren’, meaning ‘to flatten’. Postwar planning doomed Coventry to a nondescript concrete centre apart from the striking new cathedral, which was built alongside the bombed-out shell of the old. There are enough cathedrals to go round here – another even older one was recently excavated. The city also has an interesting industrial history as a prolific car-maker, the product of which can be seen in an absorbing transport museum.
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Last updated: Sep 22, 2008
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What’s in a place name?
6 October 2010
Some of my favourite words started life as names of places.Take, for example, ‘Bohemian’, which connotes a cavalier disregard for...
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RE: Best UK route from bottom to top
by n_rb 26 July 2011
I've had to entertain Aussie visitors in North East Scotland (which has more castles and whisky distilleries per sq km than elsewhere…
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RE: Best UK route from bottom to top
by kathc 26 July 2011
Hi klt I'm guessing you included Coventry so you could go and see Warwick/Kenilworth castles? Coventry itself is ok but maybe you could…
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RE: Best UK route from bottom to top
by battybilly 25 July 2011
Yeah, not light till 8am - lights back on on by 4. You'll spend more time seeing darkness than anything else - 16 hours of it. Your route…
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