Pls input road trip to Channel Islands and South of UK.

The Haynes Motor Museum is near Yeovil. If you like Stonehenge you may enjoy Avebury too. Jurassic Coast is brilliant. Devizes is nice if you like locks (dozens of them!) and narrowboats. Wells, Salisbury, Bath etc. all worth visiting if you enjoy abbeys and cathedrals. So much to see and do in the south west! Give me a shout if you find yourself in the vicinity of Bath.

How much extra time do you have to be loitering around the South East? The route you've got there will get you to all the pretty bits in the West Country and Cornwall quickest, but it's mostly dull motorway.

If you can nip up to Canterbury that's well worth a visit for all the historic stuff there, and Blean Woods is great for a half-day's walk (or full day if you wanted). You'll also land not far from the white cliffs of Dover which is worth a look (can't remember if the other side of the pond has many sodding great chalk cliffs). There's also a museum there for all the Saxon and Roman archaeological finds.

If you don't mind heading cross country a bit from there then that whole dark green splodge inbetween the first M20 square on the picture and Brighton is the Weald which is one of the most heavily forested areas of Britain (not heavily forested in an 'Eastern Poland' sort of way, regrettably, but there's lots of old woodland there and the landscape gets a bit more rolling and less pancake flat like East Kent). Hever castle and Leeds castle are well worth a visit.

There's lots of little villages in the Weald with tea shops and proper pubs you can stop at for lunch (I'm particularly fond of the Spotted Dog in Penshurst which is local to me, and there's a stately home nearby if you're into that too).

As a Kentish Man (or is that a Man of Kent, formerly West of Tunbridge Wells but now near Whitstable so it's confused), a lot of people tend to fly through Kent, Sussex and Surrey on boring stretches of motorway not realising they're missing some of the most interesting bits of Britain on the way through!

Thanks for the replies.

That is also what we want to use the smaller overland roads. I just dropped it into Google maps (which uses the main roads) just to give the idea.
Tips for scenic roads not too miss are more than welcome.

We visited Cornwall, Jurrassic coast and The new forest also 5 years ago and I visited Cantebury, London etc. several times but we just want to make a revisit but not too miss other gemms on the way. Any problems with a 49 or 55 year old car concerning environmental zones in the UK?

Also probably only visiting one channel Island for cost and time reasons, which one to pick?

Thom

If you end up going to Guernsey, a day trip from St Peter Port to Herm is very worthwhile. It's foot passengers only on the ferry though, as Herm doesn't have cars - due to its size, rather than the very special rules that exist on Sark... It's so small, that a day trip is enough, and has lovely beaches.

With a 40+ year old car you should have no problems as 'historic' ones like our scabby LR (+40yrs old) are exempted from the emission rules in Cities- I would be charged to go into Bristol in the 6 year old Honda but not the LR. You might have to register it as a foreign reg but they would have a lot of trouble chasing the money now anyway...
I can back melle up and say that this neck of the woods has a lot to offer, there is some good driving roads and the change in scenery from Bristol - Mendip hills - Cheddar Gorge - Somerset levels in 20 miles is amazing. Do love it here near Wells for sure.
SS great Britain and M Shed in Bristol well worth a look as well.
If you end up round here could recommend some local chalet style sites nearby. These can be a good option as a lot of campsites have them now - don't know any specific websites to look for them though. If you end up round here give me a shout.
Good luck with the trip.
James

The portsmouth historic dockyard is a good day out, wrt to emissions zones, shouldn't be a problem for something over 40 years old just make sure you register it for each city first.

No helpful advice to give. Looks like a great family road trip. Please post an account of your adventures.

In gurnsey, a trip to sark is a nice day out, in Cornwall, st Ives is brilliant, if the weathers nice the water is clear and shallow, brilliant for kids to have fun

This was st Ives a year or two ago, one of my favourite places to visit.

You can have a look at different web cams around Cornwall here www.aspects-holidays.co.uk/st-ives-webcam these are generally good places to visit on your way through

Agree with biturbo 228 Kent away from the motorway is stunning.
Suggest Sandwich Kent for true medieval interest along with nearby Canterbury while Deal, St Margarets Bay and Dungeness worth a visit in particular Dungeness for wild life, solitude, by gone fishing little cottages with the Romney Hythe & Dymchurch Light Railway worth an hour or two of your time to see Dungeness from a different angle plus a fantastic cafe and two pubs to enjoy whilst looking at a fantastic old light house and not forgetting the remnants of our nuclear industry across the way. Enjoy your road trip wherever you decide to go. Wells and Stonehenge worth a visit as well.