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What will students see and do.

Looking for school trips to Europe and battlefield tours for schools? Anglia Tours offers high-quality educational trips across the continent that allow Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4 students to visit important historic sites based in France, Germany, Belgium and beyond.

Students will have the opportunity to delve into the history of Europe, including the Western Front, with options to visit WW1 trenches and key sites including the Ypres and Somme battlefields. Many study experiences with Anglia Tours also cover the WW2 timeline, with educational visits to the site of the Dunkirk evacuation or school travel to visit Auschwitz in Poland.

History school teachers can also enrich students’ understanding of the French Revolution by taking classes to visit the Palace of Versailles, the site of the Bastille and the Conciergerie, where Marie Antoinette spent her final days. Students will also have the option to explore the culture and history of Paris by visiting the Louvre and taking a trip on the Seine.

Teachers who choose to stay local to the UK still have plenty of school trip ideas to consider, including London walking tours. Guided walks can help students better understand life on the Home Front while British troops, then known as the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), were fighting abroad in the Second World War. This history trip could cover stops at the Imperial War Museum and the Cabinet War Rooms. Other popular tours in London involve crime and punishment in Whitechapel, with a must-see Jack the Ripper tour.

How does the trip link to the curriculum?

Anglia Tours offers bespoke history school trips that are tailored to your class’s needs. Travelling across the English Channel opens the door to engaging and thought-provoking opportunities for learning outside the classroom. School trips abroad will enrich the knowledge students have built through their studies with impactful in-person experiences at places of interest, like WW1 battlefields and key World War II sites.

European battlefield tours offer a number of opportunities for further learning, from trench warfare and WW1 weapons, such as machine guns, to life in Nazi Germany and the beginnings of the Cold War. Students can also learn more about the Holocaust with a history tour beginning in Berlin, where Adolf Hitler planned the Final Solution, and culminating with gas chambers and crematoria at an Auschwitz tour.

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Teaching resources provided.

Anglia Tours offers a dedicated Tour Coordinator to provide support and guidance as well as school trips abroad advice to teachers. Visit the website for tour leader resources including passenger lists for tours by coach and by air and advice on completing risk assessments. You will also find educational resources including a Great War Booklet, Surgery & Treatment Booklet, Surgery & Treatment Flash Cards and Berlin Booklet.

Minimum and maximum group size

Minimum group size of 20.

Details of risk assessment

All Anglia tours comply with the latest DfE guidelines that relate to health and safety on educational visits. The company’s safety management system includes generic risk assessments of activities and venues included in many of its tours. Anglia Tours can arrange inspection visits for group leaders travelling to new destinations so they can carry out their own risk assessment.

Don't miss our downloadable A-Z guide on completing a risk assessment

Facilities on-site

The facilities vary depending on which tour you choose, but trips with an overnight element will include hotel or hostel accommodation and an exclusive coach for your group.

Opening times

Call the office during working hours to speak to a member of the team.

Visit the website for a no-obligation quote.

Travel arrangements

Anglia Tours is a member of ABTA, and the flights and flight-inclusive packages it offers are financially protected by the ATOL scheme. As standard, the company also includes travel insurance specifically tailored to the needs of educational groups.

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Company Information

Anglia tours.

An Anglia tour is an outstanding educational experience. At Anglia we care about our customers, our staff, the places we visit, the stories we tell and the organisations we work with. These key principles define who we are and what we do. We believe they are also the reason why Anglia is the market leader in fully-guided history tours for UK schools. We work with you to design a bespoke tour which meets the specific needs of your school and which supports what you are teaching in class. We start by asking what you want your students to see and what you want them to experience, then build the tour around these requirements. To further support your learning, Anglia also offers a choice of itineraries in Berlin, London and Ypres & the Somme designed endorsed by Edexcel to specifically support thematic studies. An assured member of the School Travel Forum(STF) and holder of the prestigious Learning Outside the Classroom Quality Badge, Anglia has also been recognised by the Western Front Association as a key provider for UK schools’ WW1 battlefields and is a member of the Guild of Battlefield Guides. We select carefully the sites we visit, mindful of their relevance to the tour and the environmental impact which groups repeatedly visiting the same places can have. Booking a tour with Anglia also provides you with financial security. We are a member of ABTA and the flights and flight-inclusive packages we offer are financially protected by the ATOL scheme. We also include as standard, travel insurance specifically tailored to the needs of educational groups. As you will have an experienced guide with you throughout your tour, someone who is able to deal with any issues which may arise, we can also offer you far greater peace of mind wherever you are travelling to. It is all part of the Anglia Standard. Anglia are part of the Next Generation Travel Group, which is the only educational tour operator with a government standard Customer Service Excellence accreditation.

ABTA & ATOL Numbers

ABTA Y3463 / ATOL 6512

Company Email

[email protected]

www.angliatours.co.uk

Telephone Number

01376 574130

Company Address

Anglia Tours Ltd, First Floor Charles House, Kelvedon Road, Innworth, Essex CO5 9SH

WW1 Battlefield Tour Companies and Guides: Starting from the UK

An increasing number of guides and tour companies offer tours to the First World War battlefields: these tours can include one day visits or all-inclusive tours over several days, walking tours, themed tours, cycling tours, self-drive and personalized tours for individuals or groups. Tours will usually range in size from coach tours, to minibus tours, to tours by private vehicle.

Most tours will provide the opportunity for the first-time visitor to see the main sites of interest in a battlefield sector. An increasing number of tour companies are also able to offer, separately or within a standard tour itinerary, an extra special personalized service, whereby travellers wanting to follow in the footsteps of an ancestor who served on the battlefields can be taken to specific places of action and commemoration. Do be aware that your guide will more than likely need sufficient notice if you have a particular request to visit a place of special interest, so ask well in advance of the tour if you have any special requests.

Travellers should expect a high level of experience and expertise in the subject from a guide to the WW1 battlefields. It goes without saying that you should also expect a high standard of service for all the travel and accommodation requirements of a given tour. You are advised to look at testimonials from previous travellers and ask for the tour guide's credentials before booking a tour. Guides and companies requesting to be listed on this website are taken on trust where they are not already known to greatwar.co.uk.

List of Tour Companies and Guides Starting from the United Kingdom

The following list is an overview of organizations or individual guides offering tours to the First World War battlefields where the tour starts from designated pick-up points in the United Kingdom.

This list is offered to assist travellers in finding a tour company to suit your specific requirements. You are advised to contact the tour guide or company directly with any enquiry about the tours they offer. You must be satisfied that they comply with travel, package holidays and package tours regulations. Greatwar.co.uk cannot be held responsible for a guide or tour company failing to comply with package holiday travel regulations and public liability cover.

Guild of Battlefield Guides (GBG)

greatwar.co.uk is proud to be a Supporter of the International Guild of Battlefield Guides. The aim of the Guild is to raise the understanding and promote best practice for guiding on the battlefields.

The late Lt. Col. Graham Parker, OBE, Retd. and his daughter Joanna Legg organized battlefield tours as Flanders Tours for military, private and public groups from 1980 and 2000. They founded and operated tours as Flanders Tours for 12 of those years. Graham was honoured to have been made an Honorary Member of the International Guild of Battlefield Guides. Joanna is proud to promote the International Guild of Battlefield Guides and its Badged Guides. Members and Supporters are highlighted in our list of guides and tour companies.

Battlefield Tour Companies and Guides (from the United Kingdom)

These tour companies and guides offer all-inclusive tours starting from pick-up points in the United Kingdom.

Advance! Bespoke Battlefield Tours

Member of the Guild of Battlefield Guides (GBG)

Telephone: +44 (0)1728 603 645

Website: www.advancebattlefieldtours.co.uk

After Action Battlefield Guiding

Website: www.afteraction.info/index

Battlefield guide David Grainger is a member of The Western Front Association and the Guild of Battlefield Guides. David specializes in arranging bespoke tours to suit the needs of individual travellers or groups, but for sample itineraries of the places that can be included on a tour, see the After Action website.

Anglia Tours Ltd.

ABTA No. Y3463; ATOL Protected; stf (School Travel Forum) Assured Member; Quality Badge from the Council for Learing Outside the Classroom.

Address: First Floor, Charles House, Kelvedon Road, Inworth, Essex CO5 9SH

Telephone: +44 (0)1376 - 574 130

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.angliatours.co.uk

Anglia Tours has an established reputation for organizing high quality tours to the First World War battlefields amongst other historical tours. Colonel Alain Chissel, TD, is director of Anglia Tours and a Member of the Guild of Battlefield Guides (GBG).

Experienced and expert guides offer a range of guided tours suitable for individuals, schools and military groups. Anglia Tours also specializes in organizing private tours for “Friends and Family”. These tours offer a personalized pilgrimage for small parties of friends and family members, providing an unforgettable experience in the shared experience of following in the footsteps of relatives, military units or the men and women named on the local war memorial.

Back-Roads Touring Co. Battlefield Tours

Members of the Guild of Battlefield Guides (GBG)

Telephone: +44 (0)208 9870 99

Website: www.backroadstouring.co.uk

Bartletts Battlefield Journeys Ltd.

Telephone: +44 (0)1507 - 523 128

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.battlefields.co.uk

Highly acclaimed tours visit the battlefields in small groups of up to 7 people. Bartletts Battlefield Journeys (BBJ) was founded by David Bartlett in 1995. BBJ has a well-established reputation for providing excellent, meticulously researched tours by highly qualified, experienced guides, combined with the high standards of organization provided for every BBJ traveller.

Tours with BBJ feature:

• Year-round programme of all-inclusive 3 to 12 day tours to the 1914-1918 battlefields of the Western Front and WW2 tours to Normandy.
• Bespoke tours arranged for larger groups including military personnel and school parties.

Battle Honours

Guild of Battlefield Guides (GBG) Badged Guides

Telephone: +44 (0)1438 791 020

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.battle-honours.co.uk

The UK's leading battlefield tour company providing well-established, carefully researched walking battlefield tours. Every tour is accompanied by at least one badged member of the Guild of Battlefield Guides (GBG), who will act as guide, host and organizer: lead guides and founders of Battle Honours are Clive Harris (GBG Badge no. 33) and Julian Whippy (GBG Badge no. 31). Photographer Mike St Maur Sheil is a key member of the team (GBG Badge no. 38).

Tours with Battle Honours feature:

• Scheduled walking tours of up to 16 persons to a wide range of locations on the battlefields on the 1914-1918 Western Front.
• Bespoke tours tailored to meet the requirements of groups of varying sizes from the military, schools, clubs or associations.
• Tours in association with The Western Front Association.

NO LONGER? Battlefield Breaks.com

ABTA No. 16850

Telephone: +44 (0)845 344 0342

Website: www.battlefield-breaks.com

The Battlefield Guide: Frank Toogood

Guild of Battlefield Guides (GBG) Badged Guide

Telephone: +44 (0)1916 45 1812

Website: www.thebattlefieldguide.com

Frank is Badged Guide no. 39 with the Guild of Battlefield Guides. He is a specialist in bespoke walking tours for small groups.

Bird Battlefield Tours

Telephone: +44 (0)20 8752 0956 or +44 (0)1243 789077

Website: www.birdbattlefieldtours.com

Clevelode Battlefield Tours

Telephone: 01684 311 257

Email: [email protected]

Website: clevelode-battletours.com

Retired Army Officer Major David Craig specializes in arranging bespoke family and group tours to the battlefields.

The Cultural Experience

ATOL Protected No. T10153; Travel Trust Association Member No. U6964

Address: The Cultural Experience, 8 Barnack Business Park, Blakey Road, Salisbury SP1 2LP

Telephone: (UK) 0345 475 1815; (International) +44 1722 340699

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.battlefieldtours.com

The Cultural Experience is a tour company highly recommended by its customers. All tours are led by expert guides, including leading historians, academics and retired officers.

The company specializes in history tours including a wide range of battlefield tours from 19th century to the modern day. WW1 tours include Haig on the Western Front, the Gallipoli campaign and the Western Front. Tours are accompanied by expert military historians. Bespoke tours can be arranged for individuals, a group of friends or members of a club or association.

Discovery Battlefield Tours

Associate Member of the Guild of Battlefield Guides (GBG); Serenity Travel Trusts (Package Travel, Package Holidays & Package Tour Regulations 1992)

Telephone: +44 (0)2380 986 523

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.discoverybattlefieldtours.com

Bespoke tours for 1-4 people to the battlefields of the Western Front and Normandy beaches specialising in guests wishing to follow in the footsteps of a relative. Tours are relaxed, friendly and informal. For more information on the type of tours we offer please visit the Discovery Battlefield Tours website.

Ecosse Battlefield Tours Ltd.

Travel Trust Association member

Telephone: 07584 859737

Fax: 013552 33555

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.ecossetours.co.uk

Ecosse Battlefield Tours is a Scottish based company who organise tailor made WW1 & WW2 tours for groups (20+) to the battlefields of France, Belgium, Normandy and Arnhem in the Netherlands. All coach tours start and finish in Scotland.

Eyewitness Tours

Telephone: +44 (0)1306 - 880 960

Website: www.eyewitnesstours.com

Galina Battlefield Tours

Official Tour Operators to the Normandy Veterans Association; Member of ABTA No. Y4466

Address: Galina International Battlefield Tours, 16 Bridge Street Row, Chester, CH1 1NQ

Telephone: 01244 340 777

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.wartours.com

Galina Battlefield Tours offer tours for large groups (17-49 persons), small groups (6-16 persons), individuals and couples (1-5 persons). Galina has been arranging tours for adult groups since 1989 including military personnel, Rotarians, corporate organizations, groups of friends, literary societies and the University of the Third Age. Tour itineraries can be set by Galina or can be tailored to suit the requirements of the size of your group, your travel dates, accommodation needs, travel preferences and the places you wish to visit. Self-drive tour itineraries are also available.

For full details and to request a free quotation see the Galina International Battlefield Tours website.

Telephone: 01449 765861

Email: www.travel-galloway.com Contact form

Website: www.travel-galloway.com WW1 Centenary Tours

All-inclusive Continental coach holidays including a four-day tour package to the Ypres Salient and Somme battlefields.

Great Rail Journeys

See our page:

WW1 Battlefield Tours by Rail

Guided Battlefield Tours

Member of the Guild of Battlefield Guides (GBG); Member of the Association of Bonded Travel Organisors Trust (ABTOT)

Telephone: +44 (0)1633 - 258 207

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.guidedbattlefieldtours.co.uk

A well-established, family-based battlefield tour company run by Susan and Steve Cocks. Tours are limited to a maximum of 32 people and travellers are assured of a high quality, well-researched tour. Visit the website for information about tours, dates and prices.

Holts Tours Battlefields and History

Telephone: +44 (0)1306 873 571

Website: www.holts.co.uk

With almost 40 years’ experience in operating Battlefield and History tours and more than 25 years in running School Travel, Holts Tours prides itself in being the specialist in educational travel and the leading history and battlefields tours company. Our school battlefields, history and education tours are carefully designed to fit in with the school curriculum and are tailor-made to suit your group needs and budget. Call or visit the website for a brochure.

In the Footsteps

Supporter & Member of the Guild of Battlefield Guides (GBG); Member of the European Tour Operator Association (ETOA) and Recommended and rated Excellent on Trip Advisor

Telephone: +44 (0)1989 - 565 599

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.inthefootsteps.com

In the Footsteps Battlefield Tours provide expert guided tours for individuals, couples and groups. We specialise in providing tours for those wanting to Follow in the Footsteps of their ancestors or a particular unit, as well as the more general tour of the battlefields. Our expert guides can cover tours of Pre 20th Century Wars, the First World War and Second World War.

Kimber Battlefield Tours

Telephone: +44 (0)592 - 642 466

Website: www.kimberbattlefieldtours.co.uk

Guides Paul Trickett and Phil Adams are members of the Guild of Battlefield Guides. Paul and Phil both served in the Royal Marines.

Leger Holidays Guided Battlefield Tours

ABTA No. V43582; ATOL No. 3880

Telephone: +44 (0)1709 385 624

Website: www.visitbattlefields.co.uk

Leger Holidays are the leading provider of escorted Battlefield tours and offer the widest range of tours visiting sites from WW1, WW2 and other significant wars, including Waterloo, the American Civil War and the Boer and Zulu Wars of South Africa. What’s more, each tour is led by a Specialist Battlefield Guide whose knowledge and expertise help bring history alive, giving you the ultimate battlefield tour experience. Call or visit the website to request a brochure.

Mercat Tours International Ltd.

Complies with EC Directive on Package Holidays; Member of the Travel Trust Association

Address: Mercat Tours International Ltd., 28 Blair Street, Edinburgh EH1 1QR

Telephone: +44 (0)131 225 5445

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.mercattoursinternational.com

Mercat Tours International has been leading independent adult group tours and school tours to the battlefields of the Great War since 1996. Our accredited guides bring the stories of WWI to life focusing on the experience of soldiers on the Front Line and the pals battalions. Established by an ex principal history teacher, Mercat Tours International now operates tours to D-Day Landings in Normandy, Berlin and Poland in addition to the battlefields of WW1. Visit the website for more information, dates, prices and availability.

Mr Scott's Tours

Guild of Battlefield Guides (GBG) Badged Guides; Member ETOA (European Tourism Association)

Telephone: +44 (0)1420 475567

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.mrscottstours.com

Mr Scott’s Tours offers a warm welcome, providing friendly, flexible and relaxed tours for small to large groups such as regimental associations, livery companies, business groups or families or friends. Mike Scott has thirty years experience of guiding battlefield tours. Mike and the team of guides operate tours throughout the UK, Europe and the world. The experienced guides are accredited as Badged Guides with the Guild of Battlefield Guides (GBG). Visit the website to find out more or email your enquiry to discuss a tour.

Newmarket Holidays: Battlefield Tours

ABTA No. V787X, J159X; Partner to the Royal British Legion in the Remembrance Travel Programme for Commemorative Tours

Telephone: 0330 160 7703 (standard charges apply)

Website: www.newmarketholidays.co.uk Battlefields of World War One

Founded in 1983, Newmarket Holidays is part of the Newmarket Group. It is one of the largest independently owned tour operators in the United Kingdom. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the First World War Newmarket Holidays is offering four day guided coach tours to the battlefields of World War One in northern France and Belgian Flanders. Tours take place between May and October 2015. For more information about tour details, hotels, departure dates and customer reviews visit the website.

On The Go Tours

ABTA No. W4479; ATOL No. 6109; AITO No. 5096; AITO 4 Sustainable Tourism Stars; Travel Compensation Fund Participant

Telephone: +44 (0)207 371 1113

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.onthegotours.com

On The Go Tours offers a range of battlefield tours to a number of worldwide destinations including The Boer & Zulu Wars in South Africa, The Burma Railway (combined with the Burmese Water Festival), The Siege of Leningrad, The Borneo Death March and Ranau Track and The Vietnam War. First World War destinations include tours featuring ANZAC forces on the First World War battlefields of the Western Front and Gallipoli. For details of battlefield tours see the website page at:

Website: www.onthegotours.com Battlefield Tours

Telephone: +44 (0)7970 - 065 852

Website: www.pillow.co.uk

Rail Holidays & Battlefield Tours

Remembrance travel.

Badged Guide No. 12 and Supporter of the Guild of Battlefield Guides (GBG)

Telephone: 020 3207 2321

Website: www.remembrancetravel.org.uk

Remembrance Travel (formerly Poppy Travel) is a subsidy of The Royal British Legion, working with tour operator Newmarket Travel. The “Journeys of Remembrance” tour programme offers battlefield tours to many destinations. Tours are led by experienced military historians who combine the historical information with the personal pilgrimages for travellers wishing to visit particular places of action and commemoration.

Reveille Tours

Telephone: +44 (0) 1304 240820

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.reveillebattlefieldtours.co.uk

Reverend Canon Bruce Hawkins, guide to the battlefields for over 25 years, specialises in taking small groups of people to visit the major battlefields of the First and Second World Wars. Tour guests travel in groups up to eight people in an air-conditioned, executive minibus. Accommodation is arranged as appropriate for the tour in guest houses, hotels or historic mansions. Bruce will be pleased to discuss a bespoke tour for groups of friends or families wishing to visit places of personal interest.

Rifleman Tours

Rifleman Tours is in association with Avanti Travel Insurance of Avanti Insurance Limited, registered in England No. 03882026

Telephone: +44 (0)1908 617264

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.riflemantours.co.uk

Run by a husband and wife team Rifleman Tours is a battlefield tour company based in the UK, specializing in small group tours of between 12 and 18 people to the WW1 battlefields of France and Belgium. Prices include executive coach travel and good quality accommodation. Tours are suitable for first time visitors and those with more specialist knowledge alike.

Rifleman Tours offer a number of tours scheduled during the year. Visitors wishing to pay their respects to a grave or visit a particular place of action during a tour can be accommodated (advance notice is required). Bespoke tours can also be planned around a group wanting to study a particular theme or visit special places of action.

Shearings Holidays: Battlefield Tours

Winner British Travel Awards 2012; ABTA No. V6468; Member of the Bonded Coach Holiday Group of the Confederation Of Passenger Transport UK Ltd.

Telephone: 0844 824 6351

Website: www.shearings.com Battlefields

Shearings is the UK's number one coach holiday tour operator and has been organizing tours for over 100 years. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the First World War Shearings is offering high quality guided coach tours and river cruises to the WW1 battlefields of the Western Front in France and Belgium. Shearings also offers WW2 tours and cruises.

Groups of all sizes - students, cadets, military personnel, associations - are very welcome to make enquiries at 01942 823 447.

For more detailed information visit the Shearings website or call to discuss your enquiry.

Skylark Battlefield Tours

Telephone: +44 (0)1354 696 779

Website: www.skylarkbattlefieldtours.co.uk

NO LONGER? Spirit of History

Telephone: +44 (0)1883 744 342

Website: www.spiritofhistory.co.uk

A battlefield tour company offering travel in small groups.

Spirit of Remembrance

Fully licensed and bonded tour specialists in ANZAC, British, Canadian, American and tailor-made tours. Badged guides & members of the Guild of Battlefield Guides (GBG).

Telephone: 01634 233785

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.spiritofremembrance.com

Fully licensed battlefield tour company and travel agency led by a highly experienced team in travel and tourism combined with expert ex-Service guides with many years of experience in battlefield guiding. WW1 tours are just some of the destinations available for booking. Spirit of Remembrance not only offers travellers to the battlefields the means to visit all the major sites, but also provides a variety of tailor-made opportunities for travellers to personalize a tour, whether wishing to travel as a group or an individual.

Visit the Spirit of Remembrance website to read in detail about the many and varied tour and learning opportunities available, including:

• Platinum tailor-made tours
• Day tours: ANZAC, Canadian and Waterloo
• 2 - 8 day inclusive tours
• Tailor-made tours for individuals and groups of all sizes.
• Theme tours such as photography, painting and poetry.
• “Who were they? Tours” : Personal tours helping you to trace your military ancestor, discover their story and build a tour around their story.

Take Us Touring

Telephone: +44 (0)1989 565599

Email: [email protected]

Website: takeustouring.com

Specialising in private group tours to the battlefields for groups of 10 or more.

Dr. Thomson's Tours

Badged Guide with the Guild of Battlefield Guides (GBG)

Telephone: +44 (0)1227 - 455 922

Website: www.drttours.co.uk

Tours can be arranged by Dr Andrew Thomson for individuals, large or small groups, couples, corporate organizations, clubs and conferences. Dr Thomson is Badged Guide No. 14 with the Guild of Battlefield Guides.

Williamsomme Tours

Member of the Guild of Battlefield Guides

Telephone: +44 (0)7848 976 142

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.williamsommetours.co.uk

Williamsomme Tours is a small, highly rated company offering bespoke tours of the Western Front for groups of 4-6, between March and November each year.

Mike Williamson has been operating the company since 2008. Since March 2015 he has been joined by Giles Guthrie. Giles is a former museum curator and a member of the Guild of Battlefield Guides. Giles will research family members' roles in the Great War (free of charge) and tours will be arranged accordingly and will include visits to many of the major sites.

The guided tours are all-inclusive (included is travel, B&B, restaurant meals, picnics, refreshments and museum entrance fees). Guests are accommodated in a beautiful 5-bedroom Somme farmhouse around 30 minutes' drive from Amiens. Visit the website for further details of tours and photos of the accommodation.

Related Topics

Visiting the ww1 western front battlefields.

Advice and useful information about travelling, accommodation and tourist information for visitors to the Western Front battlefields:

Visiting WW1 Western Front Battlefields

Battlefields of the Western Front

Pages on the battlefields by area including comprehensive listings and locations of military cemeteries, main memorials, battle remains, museums and accommodation:

International Guild of Battlefield Guides

The International Guild of Battlefield Guides is for guides with a specialism in battlefield history, providing an organization where guides can meet one another, share information and approaches to the subject. Members of the Guild can take part in an accreditation programme to become a “Badged Guide”. Visit:

Website: www.gbg-international.com

Somme Battlefields' Partner, France

The Somme Battlefields' Partner is a new network for visitors to the Somme, where local professionals involved in tourism and the history of this battlefield area have come together. The Somme Battlefields' Partner website is at:

Website: www.somme-battlefields.com

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Cycling Routes & Tours on the WW1 Battlefields

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Whether you are looking for an end of term reward or a scientifically focused workshop, East Anglia has something to fit all of your requirements. Whatever specific needs you may have, let UK School Trips find you your perfect School Trip and do all of the hard work for you.

Here at UK School Trips, something we pride ourselves on is our appreciation of the natural environment and East Anglia is where some of our best outdoor adventures are located. By taking your students outside of the classroom, your class will be able to explore wildlife in a way like never before. Getting up close to nature will provide students with a new perspective that they can carry across into their educational career.

But the School Trips in East Anglia are not only environmentally focused, they also offer fun days out! Taking part in adventurous activities is enjoyable for all students, regardless of age and abilities. From battling various water sports to taking to the trees in a high ropes adventure, these activities provide students with a sense of accomplishment that will build their confidence and resilience.

So, what’s stopping you? Book your East Anglia School Trip here today:

Grafham Water Outdoor Activity Centre Cambridgeshire

Grafham Water Outdoor Activity Centre is England’s third largest reservoir and is nestled in 1500 acres of beautiful countryside. It offers land and water activity

Grafham Water Outdoor Activity Residential Centre Cambridgeshire

Grafham Water Outdoor Centre near Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire is a brilliant option for residential school groups to stay in a beautiful rural environment. It offers

Immersive Gamebox Lakeside

Dive into a world of excitement at Immersive Gamebox Lakeside, featuring projection mapping, touch screens or motion tracking. Simply select your game and prepare to

AirHop Chelmsford Trampoline and Adventure Park Essex

Wouldn’t you love to create a special school day out in Essex for your students that lives on in their memories? AirHop Chelmsford Trampoline and

AirHop Colchester Trampoline and Adventure Park Essex

AirHop Colchester Trampoline and Adventure Park Essex provides the ultimate bouncing fun for students of all ages. AirHop is a massive indoor trampoline park and

Mead Open Farm Activity Farm Bedfordshire

Enjoy a great school day day out at Mead Open Farm Activity Farm Bedfordshire. It is open in all seasons for all weather fun, offering

Ninja Warrior UK Adventure Activity Centre Chelmsford

Ninja Warrior UK Adventure Activity Centre Chelmsford offers both a physical and mental challenge for students. ninja and inflatables courses are specifically designed to offer

XC Centre Climbing Caving Skating Hemel Hempstead

The XC is an extreme sports facility based in Hemel Hempstead with an impressive skate park, a climbing wall, an indoor caving system, bouldering and

Coach Hire Services Ltd

With years of industry experience, Coach Hire Services Ltd takes pride in being a leading and reliable provider of coach hire services for school groups

Gravity Active Stevenage Trampoline Adventure Park

Located in the heart of Stevenage, Gravity Active Trampoline Adventure Park offers exceptional fun for all school ages, including trampolines, inflatable wall and slide and

Gravity Active Norwich Trampoline Adventure Park

A well-designed educational program at Gravity Active Norwich Trampoline Adventure Park enhances achievement across curriculum subjects. LOtC visits are tailored to your school’s requirements.

First Travel Solutions – School Trips and Educational Travel

First Travel Solutions provides a professional and efficient School Trip Transportation service, which is guaranteed to meet all of your requirements and improve your overall

Celtic Harmony Residential Camp

Celtic Harmony Camp, the UK’s largest Iron Age settlement, provides a program 1 and 2 night Prehistory Residential trips covering the Stone to Iron Age,

Adventure Nene Ltd Sibson Lake Residential Center East of England

Adventure Nene Ltd is an outdoor activity provider, based at Sibson Lake beside the River Nene, delivering land and water based adventure activities. Its residential

Orbital Trampoline and Adventure Park Luton

Located in one massive 41,000-square foot warehouse, Orbital Trampoline & Adventure Park in Luton have rocket fuelled events and offers throughout the year to keep

TOUROPE UK International Tourism and Education Tour Operator London

TOUROPE UK provides educational tours, in which students can fully immerse themselves into English culture and experience everything, whether it be using public transportation or

Hautbois Outdoor Residential Centre Norfolk

Hautbois Activity Centre is the perfect venue for schools and groups to come for a fun and educational visit.

RSPB Rye Meads Nature Reserve

The RSPB Rye Meads Nature Reserve offers wonderful school trips where students can enjoy the outdoors while also engaging in science and geography. All our

The Lincolnsfields Childrens Residential Centre

Lincolnsfields Residential Accommodation is located within the Lincolnsfields Childrens Centre which is the home to other organisations and open for public access to the soft

Kingswood Overstrand Hall Residential Centre Norfolk

Captivating children’s imaginations with the notion of living amongst royalty in this grand manor house. The perfect educational setting for a school visit.

Kura School Trip Coach and MiniBus Transport Nationwide

Kura nationwide school trip coach and minibus hire transportation, providing your educational group with a safer, greener, smarter transport experience for UK schools and colleges.

X Adventure Development and Outdoor Activity Residential Centre Norfolk

X Adventure Development and outdoor activity residential centre Norfolk is situated in a rural setting on a 10 acre site, providing outdoor learning group activities,

Accommodation YHA East of England

Finding the right residential at the right price has never been so easy. With more than 70 Learning Outside the Classroom accredited sites, the most

Hilltop Outdoor Residential Education Centre Norfolk

Independent Family run Outdoor Education centre set in 31 acres of beautiful woodlands on the north Norfolk coast with 2 distinct centres on the one

The Jarman Centre self-catered indoor accommodation, camping and woodland activities East of England

For the perfect outdoor residential trip, visit the scenic Jarman Centre! Set in 18 acres of private woodland just outside Newmarket, the Jarman Centre is

The Hive Residential Centre Essex

The Hive (Formerly Suntrap Forest Centre) is an environmental residential centre situated in Epping Forest on the edge of East London. It is perfect for

Kingswood West Runton Residential Centre Norfolk

With a diverse range of study environments along this coast and further inland on the Norfolk Broads, there are plenty of outdoor learning adventures to

Cuffley Camp An Active Learning Centre

A Residential School Trip at Cuffley Camp will include superb accommodation, adventurous activities, and a dedicated refectory providing educational groups with an excellent range of

Flatford Mill Outdoor Residential Centre Colchester Field Studies Council

Flatford Mill Field Studies Centre Colchester is the first and original field study centre set up in the UK during the 1940’s, educational students can

Science & Dinosaur Digital Mobile Dome Nationwide

Science Dome offers a variety of shows for all age groups, including the Moon landings, a trip through the Solar System, Rocks and Soils, and

Willows Activity Farm St Albans Hertfordshire

Willows Activity Farm Hertfordshire offers curriculum-linked activities for Early Years Learning to KS1. Pupils will discover farmyard animals, enjoy endless fun activities through demonstrations, interactive

Celtic Harmony Camp, Outdoor Prehistory Centre

Celtic Harmony Camp, the UK’s largest Iron Age settlement, provides a program of Prehistory Residential and Day trips covering Stone, Bronze and Iron Age Britain.

Rock Up Watford Fun Climbing & Soft Play Centre

Rock Up provides students with endless fun, exciting interactive activities to experience that will test their mental & physical abilities in a team building environment

Kingswood Overstrand Hall Centre Norfolk

Nuclear High Ropes Tree Top Adventure Essex

We are the only high ropes journey course in Essex. We cater for children from the age of 6, but we recommend our ropes course

Rock Up Essex Fun Climbing & Soft Play Centre

BeWILDerwood Norfolk

BeWILDerwood Norfolk provides primary school groups with outdoor pursuits and adventure activities. Pupils will enjoy enchanting story telling activities and hands on arts and crafts

Woburn Safari Park

Exciting & educational day for children of all ages, with over 1000 wild animals in over 300 acres of beautiful parkland; you’ll get an unparalleled close

Suffolk Owl Sanctuary & Nature Centre

Our Educational Visits for schools and youth groups provide a tailor-made experience, making the most of our owl sanctuary and nature centre with various collections

Nuclear Wild Forest Outdoor Obstacle Centre Essex

Located in 20 acres of mature woodland, award winning Nuclear Wild Forest delivers unique, adventurous school trips. Being outdoors is beneficial to mental & physical

The School Journey Association School Trips Nationwide

Inspiring and exciting educational trips designed to bring subjects to life, extend students’ learning and develop their appreciation of local and international cultures outside the classroom. There is simply

Pleasurewood Hills Theme Park Lowestoft Suffolk

Pleasurewood Hills is a fabulous Theme Park where students can have fun and enjoy action-packed days out! Whether your students want to take on one

Southchurch Hall Museum Essex

Southchurch Hall museum is housed in the half-timbered medieval manor house, which dates to the early 14th century.

English Heritage East of England

We aim to promote a greater understanding & enjoyment of the historic environment. We offer learning groups FREE ENTRY to 400 + venues, along with

Kingswood West Runton Activity Centre Norfolk

The Bug Parc Educational Zoo Norfolk

Book a trip to Bug Parc Educational Zoo Norfolk to meet some of nature’s strangest and most beautiful micro monsters. With hundreds of rare and

The Raptor Foundation

The Raptor Foundation is a Bird of Prey conservation & education centre with 25 years of experience. The centre is open to the public &

Lee Valley VeloPark Olympic Park London

Here at Lee Valley VeloPark, we offer physically challenging school trip experiences, where your students will have the opportunity to cycle in the London 2012

Hilltop Outdoor Centre Norfolk

Independent Family run Hilltop Outdoor Centre Norfolk is set in 31 acres of beautiful woodlands on the north Norfolk coast with 2 distinct centres on

Vertigo Adventures High Ropes Hertfordshire

Located in the beautiful surroundings of Stanborough Park North, Vertigo Adventures is one of the largest and most challenging courses of its kind! With a

Hautbois Activity Centre Norfolk

By visiting Hautbois Activity Centre you can put some fun into the National Curriculum – all our activities encourage healthy living and help make exercise

Lee Valley White Water Centre Hertfordshire

Lee Valley White Water Centre provides a safe yet adventurous space, where students of all ages and abilities can take part in outdoor activities that

Immersive Experiences Mobile Planetarium School Workshops Nationwide

Immersive Experiences is the UK’s multi-award-winning immersive learning/entertainment outreach provider, reaching a record breaking 200,000 people a year.

The Hive Environmental Centre Essex

The Hive Environmental Centre Essex provides students of all ages with environmental education interlinked to the National Curriculum to support classroom-based learning through practical real-word

RSPB Minsmere Nature Reserve

RSPB Minsmere Nature Reserve provides environmental school trips for students of all ages and abilities.

Aylmerton Outdoor Education Centre Norfolk

Aylmerton Outdoor Education Centre are based near the National Trust estate of Felbrigg, Norwich with access to miles of open countryside and outstanding coastlines run

Jump In Ipswich Trampoline & Adventure Park

Jump in Edinburgh is a fantastic purpose-built adventure and trampoline park, perfect for reward trips. Your students will jump, dodge, climb and enjoy the fantastic

Absolute Travel School Tour Operator

Absolute Travel and Tours is one of the leading specialist school and group tour operators in the United Kingdom organising sports tours, adventure holidays, ski

Imperial War Museum Duxford

Here at the IWM (Imperial War Museum) Duxford, students can climb aboard historic aircrafts as well as visit the very rooms where Duxford’s Battle of

The Lincolnsfields Childrens Centre

The Children at War Experience offers a unique hands-on insight into life in wartime Britain. We encourage each group to get into role and if

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Anglia Tours Ltd specialises in high quality fully guided tours to a range of locations in the UK and across Europe, particularly battlefields and historic sites. Each tour is led by a highly experienced guide, selected not only for their expertise but also their ability to engage with audiences and to share their enthusiasm for the sites we visit.

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Anglia Tours aims to bring history closer to home with new packages

2020-10-16T15:20:00+01:00

Anglia Tours is offering a range of options to help support classroom-based teaching, taking pupils to range of historically significant places across the UK.

Schools can book their spots on a range of history day trips with Anglia Tours.

The team has said that now is still a good time to boost students’ knowledge and passion with the help of its guided history tours throughout the UK.

Whether it be trips to historically significant places, walking tours or living history workshops within schools, every session is designed to enhance subject learning and boost pupils’ confidence.

UK day trips 

Anglia Tours’ UK day trips, which can be tailored for different ages, have been designed with the aim of enabling students to develop a deeper understanding of the events, experience and legacy of World War One:

• The Christmas Truce: through unique re-enactments, pupils will meet with a Recruiting Sergeant to be put through their paces with a Drill Sergeant and learn about how wounds and injuries were treated from a Medical Officer.
• World War One  day tour to the Midlands: the tour begins at the Great War Hut, Cannock Chase to learn about recruitment and training of the British Army, before moving on for a guided tour of the nearby Commonwealth and German Military cemeteries.Then it is on the to the Staffordshire Regiment Museum, where pupils can see a large, reconstructed trench system, period equipment and weaponry close up and experience a World War One training camp. The tour will end with a visit to the National Memorial Arboretum.
• World War One day tour to East Anglia: delivered in conjunction with Khaki Devil and the Great War Huts, students will: visit restored, original World War One buildings; see a large reconstructed trench system; and take part in a fully-guided tour of a local cemetery which contains a number of Commonwealth War Graves Commission burials.

London-based walking tours

Led by an Anglia guide, each London walking tour visits a range of carefully selected sites throughout the city. By making use of different historical sources such as official documents, drawings, and photographs, the tours aim to help students visualise the environment in a way which a text book cannot:

• Whitechapel: Crime, Policing & The Inner City: focussing on the case study of Jack the Ripper, this fully-guided walking tour will cover key themes such as housing, unemployment, poverty, immigration and crime. There is also a detailed examination of investigative policing in Whitechapel at the turn of the 20th century.
• London & The Second World War:  with visits to locations such as St Paul’s Cathedral, Smithfield Market and the ruins of St Dunstan’s in the east, and covering themes including the Blitz, weapons and London’s response to the war, this tour will look at how the city and its people dealt with an unprecedented threat.

If schools are unable to get outside of the school grounds at this time, Anglia Tours can also bring history to you, through a series of presentations, each delivered in character by historical interpreters. These days can be tailored to meet specific requirements.

You can find more information about all of Anglia Tours’ educational offerings at angliatours.co.uk

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MoneySavingExpert's Martin Lewis appeals for help to find missing Norwich teacher Anthony Hill

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• Tuesday 18 June 2024 at 1:31pm

Home finance guru Martin Lewis has appealed for help to find a former colleague who has been reported missing, echoing calls from the man's family to find him.

Anthony Hill, 37, from Thorpe St Andrew near Norwich, had worked on Mr Lewis's MoneySavingExpert website before retraining to become a primary school teacher.

He was last seen leaving his home on Plumstead Road East at 7.45am, but his school St William's Primary said later that day that he had been reported missing, and police have appealed to the public.

Mr Lewis, posting on X, described the news as "devastating", and urged his followers to share the appeal.

"Anthony is a lovely man who used to work on the MoneySavingExpert deals team before leaving to pursue his valiant passion to get into teaching.

"I hope and pray he's OK. Please please spread word."

Mr Hill's wife appealed on Facebook for people to review any doorbell camera or dashcam footage from the area.

Police described Mr Hill as white, 5ft 7 inches tall, of a slim build and with short brown hair.

He was last seen wearing brown chino trousers, a black checked shirt, a green coat and a yellow rucksack.

Police said they were concerned for Mr Hill's welfare and would like to hear from anyone who has seen him or knows where he is.

Anyone with any information should contact police on 101, quoting incident number NC-17062024-507.

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Guided History Tours for Groups

We have a particular flair for catering for special interest groups.

Our tours are usually fully guided, so your group will not only be able to rely on the services of an experienced tour manager but that you will also benefit from the knowledge of a tour guide, selected not only for their expertise but also their ability to engage with diverse audiences and share their enthusiasm for the sites you visit.

Guided History Tours for Clubs and Societies

Our tours are meant to be fun as well as a journey into the past. We are conscious that in any group there will be a diversity of interests and we have the flexibility to accommodate most requirements.

We also offer tours that extend well beyond the battlefields. European cities are popular destinations and a broad range of historical and general tours are on offer in locations worldwide.

You will be accompanied throughout by an experienced Anglia guide who will more than likely entertain you long after the business of the day is done, enthralling you with a series of tales

Guided History Tours for Corporate Groups

Our wide range of experience and expertise means that we can design a tour that meets your aims, time constraints and budget.

Whether you want to reward your staff, conduct some team building or provide training for those in military related industries, we can accommodate you.

If it is corporate entertaining you are after then a tour can provide the perfect vehicle for both entertaining clients whilst allowing business to be done in a relaxed and informal setting.

Guided History Tours for friends and family

For some it may be the desire to get off the beaten track and visit those locations less well visited, for others a very personal desire to trace the footsteps of a relative, to see where they served and perhaps visit the site where they now rest.  

Whatever your motivation, Anglia Tours are able to offer tours or pilgrimages for private parties of family and friends.

We will work closely with you prior to the tour to ensure you have the tailor-made itinerary you are looking for.

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The phrase Sporting Hero is one which is over used in the modern world, but one which aptly described each of these men.

The award was presented at the Guild of Battlefield Guide’s AGM in front of a host of luminaries from the academic and guiding world.

The two World Wars have left indelible marks on my family...

Dickie is known to many of the schools who have travelled with us over the years as the Recruiting Sergeant who captures the imagination of students.