magdadh reviews
[12/12/2011] It's the nearest proper castle from Perth, and although not particularly fantastic, it's easily accessible from the town.
Two massive keep-like tower houses are linked together to create this pile built from pinkish sandstone. The grounds are not particularly big but OK. Inside, some info about castle's history (connected with the Ruthven family originally) and a very pretty wooden ceiling in one of the rooms.
This castle is run by the Historic Scotland and has an admission charge (around 4.50 per adult as far as I remember).
If you have a car and a bit more time, go to Elcho Castle in R
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[08/12/2011] If the City is London's financial and commercial centre, Westminster is where its political and spiritual heart beats. The oldest district of the City of Westminster (one of the 33 London boroughs), Westminster has been the seat of the government of England and later on, the whole of the UK for close to a millennium.
Westminster district (as opposed to the larger entity of the City of Westminster) refers to the area on the north bank of the Thames around the Westminster Abbey and Palace of Westminster (Houses of Parliament). The district of Westminster stretches south of Trafalgar Square a
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[07/12/2011] St Giles is the area of London situated between Covent Garden Soho and Bloomsbury districts, better known currently by the name of its principal Tube station of Tottenham Court Road. In the early Middle Ages it was a location of a leper colony and later on, a site of a gallows.
A village grew on the marshes that abounded in the area, which from the initial 17th century prosperity grew to be a squalid slum.
The Great Plague of 1665 started here, and by the early 19th century St Giles was a notorious London rookery (slum), to a degree that St Giles Cellar became a byword for the most foetid s
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[07/12/2011] St James's is a district in the central London area of West End, within the London borough of the City of Westminster. It is, essentially, a rectangle located north of The Mall and St James's Park and south of Piccadilly, bordered in the west by the Green Park and in the East by The Haymarket.
The Piccadilly Circus, one of the most ridiculously overrated icons of London, with its traffic, dirt, noise, neon ads, rushing Londoners and gaping tourists sits in one corner of St James's. In the other corner is the Admiralty Arch, the Admiralty House and, behind them, the mixture of the imperial gra
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[07/12/2011] Covent Garden is an area in central London, in the eastern part of the West End between Drury Lane and St Martin's Lane. It is located on the site of the old fruit and vegetable market, itself built in the 1830s to normalise and tame what was then a notorious theatre and red-light district (as well as an open-air market). The market was relocated east in the mid-seventies and the area re-developed as a fashionable shopping, entertainment and tourist centre.
Currently, the Covent Garden is one of the most popular tourist destinations in London and is known for its shops (many of them independ
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[01/12/2011] Originally poor and very much working class, Battersea, located on the south side of the river directly adjacent to the Thames in the London Borough of Wandsworth, is nowadays almost entirely gentrified (barring a few council estates towards the north-west) and inhabited by the migrants from the north side of the river (after all, Chelsea is just across the river and so is Fulham).
The district has essentially a residential character and is in many ways similar to its south-eastern neighbour, Clapham. There are many families living here, as well as younger professionals, and consequently ther
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Battersea borders Wandsworth to the west, the eponymous part of a much larger London Borough that includes many other districts in the main south to south-west part of central London.
Wandsworth is pretty much all residential, and of very mixed character. Regenerated riverside wharf developments with walkways and newish apartment blocks combine with attractive terraced, detached and semi-detached period properties in The Tonsleys area and towards Wandsworth Common; but there are also council tower blocks.
The area doesn't have any particular attractions that would warrant a trip from afar
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[01/12/2011] To the south of Battersea stretches Clapham which signals the beginning of the great south (or really, central-south-west) London sprawl. Most of Clapham actually lies in the London Borough of Lambeth.
Centred around the Clapham Common, the 18th century Clapham had many a grand house built by the City merchant classes. By the beginning of the 19th century though it had fallen out of fashion with the rich and turned into one of the early London commuter suburbs and the ''man on the Clapham omnibus'' became a byword for a ''man in the street''. In the last two decades of the 20th century Claph
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[30/11/2011] Clapham Junction is the busiest rail junction in the UK (or even Europe) and nothing much else. For passengers, there is an endless sequence of platforms with a few of the usual facilities, but that is about it. I have a feeling very few people get off and out here though very many change trains: it's not a terminus but an interchange.
It's the only really major central (well, sort of, though it IS south of the river) London rail station that doesn't have a corresponding tube stop, but then many of the south London residential districts are not actually served by the tubes but trains only.
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[30/11/2011] Camberwell, also in the Southwark borough, is also poor, also heavily built up, but it has some nice Georgian houses as well as all the misguided post-war concrete blocks and in addition to the South London Gallery which is by far the biggest attraction and a reason to visit the district, it also boasts an art college and a major teaching hospital, so artists and students bring some buzz to the area that gets a showcase in the annual Camberwell Arts Festival.
For many years now Camberwell has been hailed as a bit of up-and-coming area, and although hasn't quite (at least to my knowledge) upp
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