"Must See's and Do's" in and from London when there for 10 days?

You´re in London for only 10 days, and you´re asking about visiting Stonehenge, Liverpool, Dover, Wales, Paris, and Ireland.

I don´t understand.

London and its surrounding areas will take up all 10 days.

Liverpool isn't exactly a day trip destination from London - have a look yourself on some train / bus timetables. Stonehenge isn't in London, either! Paris is in another country, and Ireland is an other conntry!

So, a bit more research might be a good idea. But I wouldn't advise anyone to spend 10 days exclusively in London - it's a great city, but it doesn't equal England or the UK in general.

I've always failed to see why people are so eager to go to Stonehenge...it's just a bunch of rocks in a muddy field and other tourists. You pay yourself silly to get there and back, to get in and there is nothing else there apart from a coffee shop with over inflated prices. Might as well look at some pictures in a book, does the same job. It's probably the biggest disappointment of all the "famous" places I've been...I just happened to be going past on a motorbike and stopped.

Anyway, Brighton is a nice day out from London, fast train from Victoria station takes only 50 minutes.

http://www.visitbrighton.com/

And as far as "must do's" it would help if you listed what you actually like to do: shop? art? museums? general sights? etc etc.

If you're not on too tight a budget, a two-day trip to Paris on the Eurostar train is perfectly viable. (You can get there and back in a day but it's too rushed IMHO.)

Wales and Ireland really demand a car if you're going to get the most out of a short visit and I don't think you have the time available to do much justice to either of them.

Dover is a bit of a dump, frankly. It's mildly interesting to see the White Cliffs if you happen to be there but I wouldn't make a special expedition for it.

Of course, there are plenty of options in England itself. What kind of things are you primarily interested in seeing and doing - historical sites, nature, museums, shopping?

Get a ticket for one of the hop-on hop-off bus tours which will cover most of the must sees in London. Add to that the Imperial War Museum possibly... avoid art galleries unless your son is interested - probably not would be my guess. Not because they're not some of the best in the world, just cause a 17 yo is likely to be very bored! ; )

For day trips, consider Cambridge, Oxford and further a field is Bath. The Roman Baths are excellent and very interesting for a day trip, though it's a long day trip as travelling can take some time to get there ~2-3 hrs by train I think it is. Brighton is a nice option, but IMO there is little of interest to see there. Consider Portsmouth as well.. not a terribly nice city but it's of huge historical significance and they have a naval museum there that's quite good.

Stonehenge in my opinion is a must see... ignore the naysayers who live here or have been several times. I think it's an interesting, historic, intriguing site - though little is really known about it. However it is really out of the way and it will take up the best part of the day to get there and back - I think you could spend the time more effectively elsewhere with so little time.

Another place to see would be the Cotswold, specifically the tourist epicentre which is Stratford (birth place of Shakespear).

Yeh forget Dover... I always thought there was some magic to the place, but it's just a big white cliff and Dover is a grubby port only visited really, for it's links with the continent.

I enjoyed seeing Stonehenge actually. So many people told me that it was overrated etc that I really wasn't expecting much. I just read up a bit on Stonehenge and various theories about it through the ages, and also included a nice wander through Salisbury and, more particularly, the Cathedral. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Are you willing to rent a car? If so, consider doing a mini side trip to include Bath, Bristol and Wales.

Hop on hop off tours (as suggested by Scaryant) are a great way to see the sights. At the very least you can see where things are and where they are in relation to each other. The tour can be a bit overpriced but they are easy and do tick off a lot of the sites you may want to just get a picture of.

Go on a London Walk - traditional ones like the Jack the Ripper tour would be great. But there are lots of tours. They last about an hour or so - so it's not like you have to plan your trip around them. Just turn up on a day which suits.

If your son likes movies, find a guide to popular movie locations in London. There are (obviously) a lot, but if he likes a particular movie it could be fun.

Take him to a pub for a meal.

Imperial War Museum is great. Do war stuff.

Do touristy stuff. Take him to Harrods and get your son to try on a £20,000 Armani Leather Jacket. Actually, if he is 17 he would be mortified at doing such a thing. So I would definitely suggest doing that!

I probably can't help more than that. I love historic sites and did as a teenager. I imagine that would bore a lot of teens.

Cambridge, my home city, one hour on the train from London, makes a very nice day trip. You must have never been to England before if you think Ireland, France and Wales are day excursions! Wales would be at least a five hour journey! Dover is do-able in a day. To do Stonehenge in a day you would need to rent a car, it would take you half the day to even get there on public transport.
I seriously think you would be much better to spend your time in London, take it easy and enjoy the city rather than dash around like headless chickens - you will never see everything in the south of England in ten days so don't try! Remember if you like museums then you don't want to be just straight in and out of one, you need to have a half day perhaps to enjoy it. Lots of really good museums to choose from in London now and they are free! Plan yourself a feasible itinerary. You should be expecting to spend a good five days just in London, I would say, then maybe a couple of day trips and a shopping day or two or just relaxing somewhere nice and taking in the atmosphere.