Best Things Across The UK

St John's Point Lighthouse: The Yellow-Banded Giant of County Down In Van Morrison's song "Coney Island," the lighthouse at St John's Point is mentioned in a list of the things that make the Irish coast of County Down feel like home — somewhere between the Mourne...

Blackhead Lighthouse: The Titanic Passed Here, and You Can Stay the Night In April 1912, RMS Titanic — built at Harland and Wolff's yards on Queen's Island in Belfast, launched in 1911 and fitted out over the following months — left Belfast Lough for the last time on...

St Ann's Head Lighthouse: The Last Shore-Based Light in Pembrokeshire, on the Tudor Coast In August 1485, a small fleet carrying Henry Tudor — exiled pretender to the English throne — rounded this headland and landed at Mill Bay, a sheltered cove just to the north of...

Point Lynas Lighthouse: A Castle on the Cliffs of North Wales, Guiding Liverpool's Ships Since 1766 Most lighthouses are towers. Point Lynas is not. The lighthouse that stands on the rocky headland at the north-east corner of Anglesey is a low, castellated structure...

North Ronaldsay Lighthouse: The UK's Tallest, Above the Island of the Seaweed Sheep Around the shoreline of North Ronaldsay — the northernmost and most isolated of the Orkney Islands — runs a drystone wall several miles long called the Sheep Dyke. Its purpose is...

Rua Reidh Lighthouse: Wild Wester Ross Beacon Above Loch Ewe's WWII Convoys Three miles beyond the last village on a private track across the moorland of Wester Ross, where the headland of Rubha Rèidh — the Gaelic for flat headland — reaches out into the Minch, a...