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Black Mountains Wales The Black Mountains Wales region sits quietly at the eastern edge of Bannau Brycheiniog National Park (formerly known as the Brecon Beacons), and for many visitors it’s the part of Wales that stays with them longest. This is a landscape of long grassy ridges, steep-sided valleys, and a scattering of villages that

Quantock Hills The Quantock Hills rise gently out of the Somerset countryside between Taunton and the Bristol Channel, and they have a fair claim to being England’s original protected landscape. Back in 1956, this narrow ridge of heather, oak woodland, and quiet farmland became the country’s very first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, a title

Wye Valley Travel Guide Few landscapes in Britain have been drawing travellers for as long as the Wye Valley. More than 250 years ago, an 18th-century clergyman named William Gilpin wrote a bestselling guidebook about his boat trip down the River Wye, and in doing so, he more or less invented British tourism as we

Kielder Forest Tucked into the far northwest of Northumberland, right up against the Scottish border, Kielder Forest is a place that still feels genuinely remote. There are no motorways nearby, mobile signal drops out for long stretches, and the villages you pass through on the way in have a handful of houses and a pub,

Gower Peninsula: The Ultimate Guide to Wales’ Wild Coast Jutting out from Swansea into the Bristol Channel, the Gower Peninsula packs an extraordinary amount of scenery into a small stretch of coastline. In 1956, it became the very first place in the United Kingdom to be designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and it

Waterfall Country Wales Tucked into the southern edge of Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons) National Park, Waterfall Country Wales is one of the most concentrated pockets of natural drama in the country. Along a short stretch of land between the villages of Pontneddfechan and Ystradfellte, four rivers — the Mellte, Hepste, Pyrddin and Nedd Fechan —

Wasdale Head Wasdale Head sits at the far end of a nine-mile dead-end road, ringed by the highest ground in England and facing the deepest lake in the country along its length. There’s no through traffic here, no by-pass, no other reason to be on that road except to reach the valley itself — and

Buttermere Valley Introduction Tucked between Honister Pass and the Newlands Valley, Buttermere Valley is the corner of the Lake District that locals quietly keep to themselves. Two glacial lakes, Buttermere and Crummock Water, sit in a narrow bowl of fells so steep that cloud often clings to their tops long after the valley floor has

Ennerdale Valley Introduction There is a stretch of western Cumbria where the crowds simply stop. No tour buses queue for parking, no ice cream vans line the shore, and no road runs the length of the lake. That place is Ennerdale Valley, and it might be the closest thing England has left to genuine wilderness.

Langdale Pikes There is one skyline that sums up the Lake District better than any other, and it belongs to the Langdale Pikes. Stand in the village of Elterwater on a clear evening and look north-west, and you will see it: a jagged wall of rock rising straight out of the valley floor, its peaks