A country · 2,714 places · 4 regions

United Kingdom, all of it.

2,714 curated places across 4 regions — photographed, mapped, and noted with the season each is best in.

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United Kingdom reads below in 4 chapters — England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland — in any order you like.

Chapter I · England · 33 places

England

An artificial tarn created in the nineteenth century by damming several small natural pools, Tarn Hows is one of the most visited sites in the Lake District National Park. The surrounding landscape of mixed woodland and open fell was deliberately designed as a picturesque composition, and it remains effective — particularly in autumn when larch and birch turn gold. A level path of roughly two kilometres circuits the tarn, making it one of the more accessible fell walks.

Tarn Hows

England, United Kingdom

✦ September to October for autumn; May to August for general visits · $

Yorkshire Dales National Park

England, United Kingdom

✦ April to October · $

Natural History Museum, London

England, United Kingdom

✦ Year-round · $

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Chapter II · Wales · 22 places

Wales

A castle in the centre of the Welsh capital combining a Norman keep on a motte with lavish Victorian Gothic Revival interiors. Its opulent apartments were designed by William Burges for the wealthy Bute family.

✦ Year-round · $$

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Chapter III · Scotland · 20 places

Scotland

A restored abbey on a small Hebridean island long tied to early Celtic Christianity. It marks the site of Columba's ancient monastery.

Iona Abbey

Scotland, United Kingdom

✦ May to September · $

Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park

Scotland, United Kingdom

✦ May to September · $$

Wester Ross and Torridon

Scotland, United Kingdom

✦ May to September · $$

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Chapter IV · Northern Ireland · 10 places

Northern Ireland

The Mourne Mountains are a compact range of granite peaks in County Down, rising from the Irish Sea coast to a high point of 850 metres at Slieve Donard, the highest summit in Northern Ireland. The range is contained by the Mourne Wall, a dry-stone boundary wall constructed in the early twentieth century, which traverses fifteen summits over roughly 35 kilometres. The wild character of the Mournes strongly influenced the landscape writing of C.S. Lewis in his childhood.

✦ May to October · $

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