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Long Mynd The Long Mynd is one of the most rewarding stretches of open countryside in the Shropshire Hills, and it’s easy to see why walkers keep coming back. This heather-covered plateau rises above the small town of Church Stretton, offering miles of footpaths, steep-sided valleys and views that stretch far into the surrounding hills.

Valley of Rocks The Valley of Rocks sits on the North Devon coast, just west of Lynton, where Exmoor’s moorland meets the sea in a landscape unlike anywhere else in England. Jagged rock formations rise from open grassland, feral goats wander freely between the outcrops, and the coastline drops away to the Bristol Channel below.

Isle of Rum The Isle of Rum doesn’t try to be easy. There’s no bridge, no regular flights, and only a handful of sailings a week connect it to the mainland. What you get in exchange is one of the wildest, least-visited corners of the Hebrides — a National Nature Reserve where golden eagles patrol

St Abbs, Scotland St Abbs sits on a stretch of Berwickshire coastline that most people driving between Edinburgh and Newcastle never see, tucked down a side road off the A1 and easy to miss unless you’re looking for it. The village itself is tiny, a working harbour ringed by cottages and cliffs, but it packs

Forest of Dean Cross the River Severn or wind down from the Malvern Hills and you’ll find yourself in a landscape that feels older and wilder than most of England. The Forest of Dean sits in the western corner of Gloucestershire, wedged between the Wye Valley and the Severn Estuary, and it holds the title

Torridon Introduction Torridon sits in a part of Scotland that doesn’t try to compete with anywhere else. There’s no single headline attraction, no ticket booth, no queue. What draws people here is a landscape that feels genuinely old — sandstone mountains that have stood for roughly 750 million years, rising almost straight out of sea

Applecross Peninsula Few places in Scotland reward the effort of getting there quite like the Applecross Peninsula. Tucked into the northwest corner of the Highlands, in the region of Wester Ross, this is a part of the country that still feels genuinely cut off from the modern world — and that’s exactly the point. For

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