Unique British Tours operates exclusive, chauffeur-driven British tours right across the United Kingdom (UK) including tours of England, tours of Wales, tours of Scotland and tours of Ireland. All British tours are by luxury car or mini-bus, staying in splendid luxury character accommodation. We specialise in unique historical tours of Great Britain, literary tours and unusual themed tours.
Each tour of Britain is expertly guided by myself, Michael Osborne BA Hons (London) History and English Eccentric; as your exclusive personal chauffeur and tour guide. Unique British Tours is a specialist in customised tailor-made tours that are bespoke to your chosen and preferred tour itinerary. Tour packages can range from one-day sightseeing tours to multi-day tours or even multi-week tours!
| Featured British Tour:
 Royalty And Religion TourThis memorable regal and spiritual tour visits locations associated with Queen Elizabeth I, Henry V, Henry VIII, Richard II, Queen Victoria, Edward VI and VII, George VI, Jamestown, Virginia, the Wesleys and Methodism, Quakers and William Penn and early Christianity and Paganism.
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Our British Tours include:
|  Jane Austen TourThis tour has been specially commissioned to include locations associated with her life, her novels and the various film and TV productions of her work. Let us go in Jane's footsteps and capture much of the atmosphere of her world. The country houses, churches, great estates, and the elegant Bath she knew have changed surprisingly little in two centuries.
|  Thomas Hardy TourCome with us then in search of Thomas Hardy, the author of such timeless masterpieces of the English language: Tess of the D'Urbervilles; Far From The Madding Crowd and Under The Greenwood Tree to name but a few of his many classics.
|  Wales Heritage TourWales,Land of Mountain,Sea and Song and so much more.All Inclusive,Tailor-Made Tours of Wales whether historical,literary,cultural,
artistic,musical or industrial on a variety of themed tours,tailored to your interests, by luxury car or minibus with expert guides and historians.
|  Highlands and Isles of Scotland TourA cruise around the Inner Hebrides Isles of Muck; Eigg; Canna and fascinating Kinloch Castle on Rhum. Then two superb days on the Isle of Skye; Dunvegan Castle; Portree; Plockton; Eilean Donan Castle; Invergarry; Loch Ness; Urquart Castle; Inverness. The Battlefield of Culloden; Pitlochry; Ashintully Castle: Edinburgh and Sir Walter Scott Border Country.
|  Industrial Heritage TourThis exclusive tour is very much for the connoisseur of Britain's Industrial Heritage The tour covers steam, wind and water power, mining, mills, ships and engineering.
|  Izaak Walton TourIzaak Walton, the author of The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man's Recreation was born in Stafford in 1593. To celebrate the 400th anniversary of his birth, Unique British Tours visits many locations associated with his long life.
|  Ghosts, Witches and LegendsWe visit England's most haunted village in Kent, a Tudor mansion that boasts fourteen ghosts and hear devilish tales of ghosts and strange happenings in ancient, half-timbered inns.
| Royalty And Religion TourThis memorable regal and spiritual tour visits locations associated with Queen Elizabeth I, Henry V, Henry VIII, Richard II, Queen Victoria, Edward VI and VII, George VI, Jamestown, Virginia, the Wesleys and Methodism, Quakers and William Penn and early Christianity and Paganism.
|  Crimes, Curiosities and Eccentrics TourThe truly eccentric English live on in this very unusual tour which visits pyramids, obelisks, follies and strange monuments dedicated to their eternal memory.
|  Smugglers and Sea-Dogs TourThis swashbuckling and salty tour goes in search of smugglers and sea dogs to pretty fishing villages, steep cobbled streets and mediaeval inns where tales abound of daring moonlit exploits and battles between the customs men and the "gentlemen of the night" or "owlers" as smugglers were more commonly called.
|  Classic Literature TourYou will indulge your literary, musical, architectural and aesthetic tastes as we visit locations strongly associated with the following well known authors: Shakespeare, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Milton, Kipling, Keats, Shelley, Lewis Carroll, Coleridge, Dickens, A.A.Milne. Pepys, Jane Austen, Van Dyke, Gainsborough, Reynolds, Grinling Gibbons, Capability Brown, J.M.W. Turner, Gilbert White, Thomas Gray, J.K. Jerome, Henry James, Kenneth Grahame, George Orwell, John Galsworthy and H.G. Wells.
|  Historic Houses, Castles and Gardens TourThis beautiful tour includes on its itinerary Rudyard Kipling's mansion home at Batemans and Penshurst Place, birthplace of Sir Philip Sidney, courtier and favourite of Elizabeth I.
|  Castles, Manors and Pubs TourIndulge your aesthetic pleasures in locations strictly for the romantically inclined. Historic and moated castles like Leeds, Bodiam, Arundel, Bolebroke and Hever, Great houses like Parham, Penshurst, Petworth, Uppark, Knole, Chartwell and Ightham Mote built for great Englishmen.
|  Grand Tour of WalesWales rivals Scotland for its scenic splendour of brooding mountains, lakes, scenic valleys and forgotten villages where only the Welsh language is spoken and legends are told of ghosts, witches, poets and saints
|  Grand Tour of Scotland The following locations are included in this Grand Tour of Scotland and Lochs: Robert Burns' country, Loch Lomond, Fort William, Invergarry, A Whisky Distillery, Loch Ness, the Battlefield of Culloden, Inverness, Balmoral, Edinburgh and Sir Walter Scott border country.
|  American Connection TourThis fascinating tour visits locations associated with George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, The Pilgrim Fathers, Neil Armstrong, Pocahontas, Abraham Lincoln, William Penn, John Harvard, John Wesley, Henry James, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Latrobe (the architect of The White House), Jamestown, Virginia, The American War of Independence and U.S. Army and Air Force servicemen who were stationed in England during World War II.
|  Charles Dickens TourCome with us in search of the locations associated with his life, and the world of characters he so immortalised in his novels. We visit his birthplace in Portsmouth; Brighton, Canterbury, Gads Hill, Cooling, Rochester where he spent his early and later years; Chatham Historic Dockyard and Bleak House at Broadstairs.
|  Steam Trains TourIndulge your passion and nostalgia for the sights, sounds and smells of Steam Locomotives and pray take your seat for two different train rides each day in Victorian railway carriages through wonderfully scenic England and Wales.
|  English Village Pubs TourUnique British Tours has researched that most enduring symbol of English Country Life;The Village Pub.On this specialized tour there are historical pubs,haunted pubs,river,sea and canal-side pubs;pubs with literary,sporting and industrial associations;pubs with famous visitors like Queen Elizabeth I, Charles Dickens and John Constable and pubs in simply fantastic,scenic, wild and remote locations. Let us investigate the derivations and origins of pub names and partake of wholesome,home-cooked food and real ale in idyllic country settings.
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England
- London
- Stratford upon Avon
- Oxford
- Cambridge
- Chester
- York
- The Cotswolds:Salisbury
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Wales:
- Aberystwyth
- Dylan Thomas' Swansea
- Cardiff
- Llangollen
- Snowdonia
- Caernarfon
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Scotland:
- Edinburgh and The Highlands
- The Isles of Skye and Mull
- St.Andrews and Loch Lomond
- Loch Ness and The Trossachs
- The Hebrides and Iona.
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Ireland:
- Dublin
- Galway
- The Lakes of Killarney
- Limerick
- The Ring of Kerry
- Cork and Blarney Castle
- Waterford and Wexford
- The Giant's Causeway
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