Where are some good places to visist in England with relevance to American history?

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Owen K

My suggested Top Pick is Plymouth, which is proud of its role in the story of the Pilgrim Fathers. Their ship, the Mayflower, set sail from Plymouth in September 1620 and, some 66 days later, arrived at Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The settlers created a new town there, and called it Plymouth. See BBC feature on it, and web site on the Mayflower Steps.

silly gorbie

Slapton Sands near Dartmouth in South Devon. Many Americans lost their lives here training for D Day. There is a WWII tank recovered from the seabed and details of the service men killed there.

MrPete

You could take them to see one of the copies of the Magna Carta upon which the original US Constitution was heavily based.

spictoria_pavlova

duxford air museum, Cambridge.
They have an American bit.
Also American war cemeteries in Cambridge.

patrioticjock

The Mayflower left Plymouth on Apr. 15, 1621, so Plymouth

A bust of George Washington (1732-99) was placed in the crypt of St. Paul's Cathedral in 1921

General Charles Cornwallis was educated at Clare College, Cambridge, long before being defeated by George Washington at Yorktown.

Close to Trafalgar Square is Benjamin Franklin House, the world's only remaining Franklin home. It's a museum now. Ben turned 301 yesterday, by the way.

There is a statue of Statue of Franklin D. Roosevelt in Grosvenor Square in London.

There is a bust of JFK on Marylebone near the entrance to Regent's Park in London.

Finally, there is this tour book designed specifically for Americans in London:

http://www.shop.com/op/~American_Walks_in_London_Ten_Step_By_Step_Itineraries_for_North_American_Visitors_Richard_Tames_-prod-36810646

Gerbil

Take them to Buckingham Palace or Windsor Castle. And if they ask why we built the Palace/Castle so close to the airport, slap them hard!

david f

Gravesend parish church, Kent. believe it or not the burial place of Princess Pocohontas! Afraid there isn't a grave to see any more, but there is a nice statue.
The Mayflower public house, Rotherhithe, London (beside Thames and close to tube station). They may have sailed off into the Atlantic from Plymouth, but this is where the Pilgrim Father started off.

jonahbeast

Do they have any family ties to the UK? Americans usually like to see the town/region their ancestors came from, if they know which part of the world it is.

sarch_uk

James B beat me to it...the American Museum at Claverton Down in Bath is very interesting...

Sulgrave Manor, ancestral home of the Washington family - he was a bit of a toff you know.

James B

Try the American Museum in Bath.

Corneilius

Liverpool has a wealth of connections to the US.
You could take them to the slavery exhibition at Liverpool Maritime museum.

Take them to look at the Marks and Spencer building in Liverpool City centre. Why? It has the coat of arms of Britain on one corner, and the original coat of arms of The U.S. in the other, and was the site of the first American embassy anywhere in the world.

You could take them to the site of the worlds only Confederate embassy in Rumford place, and I believe that there are occasional walks around the city explaining the intrigue and spying and even shipbuilding that went on within the city during the American civil war

Not Ecky Boy

can't think of anything other than castles , etc. . All they're going to do is whine about how expensive everything is.

Nothing in the UK has much relevance to american history. Show them some old guns- they LIKE guns.

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