Here’s a page about touring with English writer’s in mind: http://oh.essortment.com/englandtours_rlld.htm
If you’re travelling north via the east coast, then Edinburgh and it’s castle are worth a visit… depending when you’re coming it can get very busy, though - i.e. August, when the Edinburgh Festival is on.
Another small nitpick, neither Loch Ness or St. Andrews are in England.
Right, but Grandma is also taking him to see more relatives in Scotland.
Oops. Yes, I meant the Peak district. We wandered around between Yorkshire and Derbyshire; we were staying with friends who took us around. :o
Sorry, saw the title but didn’t properly read the text. :smack:
Someone mentioned the Sir John Soanes Museum, which I did enjoy, with its assorted plunder from around the world, secret removable wall etc.
Across the street from the Soanes is this place (anatomy specimens in jars, skeletons etc):Hunterian Museum
Ivyland might enjoy a Saturday morning along Portobello Road.
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Make that Ivyboy
Hope I got it right. Am a bit confused with the various Ivies. 
One London attraction I got a kick out of was The London Dungeon. Certainly not for everyone, but I suspect it might appeal to a 16 year old.
My first thought was shag, age of consent being lower in the UK than other places in the Western World. He might also look old enough to get into a pub without too many questions being asked.
But really, these aren’t holiday questions, are they?
Another vote for the Imperial War Museum, in London. I was there last year. Outstanding Holocaust exhibit, excellent bookstore. And lots of Actual, Full Sized Things: rockets, bombs, heavy artillery, tanks, etc.
I second the London Dungeon! If he’s at all a horror fan, gothically inclined, or likes things that go bump in the night, he’ll like this!
My first thought was “appear in indecent photographs,” but I checked and it seems they raised it up to age 18 in 2003, though the Liberal Democrats want to move it back down for both appearing and viewing.
What?
I thought it was actually higher than many other places in Europe?
When one goes to the UK I would expect most of the excitement comes from seeing stuff we don’t have in the US (so says me, having lived in the UK ten years during my kiddie days to early teens).
So I’d think the Stonehenge suggestion is great, as is a really good castle (Bodiam, Warwick, and Chepstow in Wales). We don’t have those here. Also, seeing some great Roman stuff (Hadrian’s Wall, Pevensey Castle, and Bath) is excellent. Battle has cool ruins and it’s where Harald gets the arrow in the eye from William the Bastard (or summat like that).
I’m in my thirties now, and I vaguely remember all of the museums and galleries. Don’t get me wrong, they were great. But the castles are simply amazing and I can remember those visits like yesterday. Seeing knights on horses at Warwick Castle blew my mind. I couldn’t get over the fact that the walls I touched at Pevensey were 1700 years old. I defy any kid to learn about the Romans and not become incredibly interested in their way of life.
Not sure, but they do bump it up again a year for heterosexuals in Northern Ireland (and would ban it altogether for homosexuals if they had a chance, but that’s another thread altogether…)
Tour The Wall.
If I ever get to London, I want to do that. I understand there is one part where they have excavated down to the original level, which is the beginning of the city of London itself.
There is another Roman Wall in the city of York. They also have dungeon and torture museums (as most bigger cities in England).
He will have no problem buying alcohol. I actually witnessed a fourteen year old buy a round at a pub.
If he has been drinking then he also might find Madame Tusseau’s wax museum fun. 