A woman walks with a dog across a bridge in the Cotswolds. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)A woman walks with a dog across a bridge in the Cotswolds. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)
A woman walks with a dog across a bridge in the Cotswolds. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Here are 9 of the best places you could go for a staycation in the UK this year

Holidaying in Britain is very much back on the agenda for 2021, it seems, with travel restrictions and the new hotel quarantine rules likely to make foreign jaunts either impossible or highly unappealing.

VisitBritain boss Patricia Yates has said staycationers will be ‘worth billions’ to the economy this summer, and the nation is ready to welcome domestic tourists when lockdown eases.

So here is our pick of nine brilliant places to stay in the UK. You should carefully check cancellation policies when booking and only travel if the law permits at the time of your trip.

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