Tour Description:

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From the 17th century onwards, Britain became ‘Great Britain’, the ‘undisputed ‘Workshop of the World’.
This period saw the birthplace of ‘The Industrial Revolution’ with its massive iron and steel production, huge factories and mills, great urban growth, the building of canals and railways and ship building. All of which ensured the rapid expansion of the ‘British Empire’.

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Locations include:

The Bluebell steam railway, Jack & Jill windmills, Amberley Industrial Museum, Weald & Downland Open Air Museum, Bosham & Eling tidal mills, Portchester Castle, Beaulieu National Motor Museum, Bucklers Hard (an 18th century shipbuilding village), Exbury steam train, HMS Mary Rose, HMS Warrior and HMS Victory in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, Avebury stone circles, Crofton beam engines, Dudley Black Country Museum, Harvington Hall priest holes, Blists Hill, Ironbridge, Coalbrookdale, Severn Valley Steam Railway, Acton Scott (a 19th century Victorian working farm), Anderton boat lift, Bunbury canal locks and watermill and 18th century Quarry Bank cotton mill.

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Accommodation includes:​

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(click each location to view their website)

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Masterbuilders at Bucklers Hard, Brockencote Hall, Kidderminster, Peckforton Castle Hotel