Windsor Castle
A working royal palace and the longest-occupied in Europe, with state rooms, a Gothic royal chapel and a medieval keep, half an hour from London by train.
From King's Cross St Pancras: 58 min by train · 1 h 12 min by car
Travel times by TravelTime
Time there: 3–4 h
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Quick facts
St George's Chapel, begun in the 1470s, is one of England's finest Perpendicular Gothic buildings and holds the burials of Henry VIII and Charles I.
The State Apartments mix Classical, Gothic and Rococo rooms, some rebuilt in a new Gothic style after the 1992 fire.
The Round Tower crowns a man-made mound, and the Long Walk, a 4.3 km double avenue of trees, runs from the castle into Windsor Great Park.
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