Richard III's story runs from Middleham Castle in Yorkshire to Bosworth Field, where he died in 1485, and on to Leicester, where his grave was found under a car park in 2012. The route follows his childhood at Middleham, the battle of Tewkesbury, the princes at the Tower of London, his last charge at Bosworth, and the Greyfriars dig and cathedral tomb in Leicester. The exact Bosworth battlefield is still debated.
Thomas Cromwell rises from a Putney childhood to become Henry VIII's most trusted minister, then falls in the same Tudor politics he mastered. Hilary Mantel's trilogy follows him from Cardinal Wolsey's household through the Reformation, Anne Boleyn's rise and execution, and his own last years. This route traces the places that anchor the story: Cromwell's birthplace and London house, Wolsey's palaces at York Place and Esher, the abbey where Wolsey died, Westminster Abbey for Anne's coronation, the Seymour seat that gives the novels their title, Hampton Court, and the Tower. The 2015 television adaptation used Dover Castle for the Tower of London and Penshurst Place for Whitehall.
1588年の夏、スペイン艦隊はパルマ公の軍と合流する計画を携えてコーンウォール沖に現れた。烽火がロンドンへ知らせを伝え、イングランド艦隊はプリマスから出撃し、数週間のうちに、火船、1日の激しい砲戦、そして秋の嵐によって、計画は潰えた。 このルートでは、最初の発見から、3隻の船が砕け散ったスライゴ州の浜辺まで、7つの場所でこの作戦をたどる。戦闘の大半は海上で行われたため、ピンは最も近い沿岸の目印を示している。プリマスでドレークがボウリングをしていたという話は、伝説として扱ってある。