Best Things Across The UK

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...

Stoer Lighthouse: On Scotland's NC500, Two Miles From the Old Man of Stoer Two miles north of Stoer Lighthouse, the cliff edge drops away and the Old Man of Stoer rises from the sea — a 62-metre sandstone stack, sheer on all sides, standing apart from the headland as...

Sumburgh Head Lighthouse: Robert Stevenson's 1821 Beacon on Shetland's Puffin Cliffs At the southernmost tip of Mainland Shetland, where the North Sea and the Atlantic meet in the turbulent tidal race known as the Sumburgh Roost, Robert Stevenson — the founder of the...

Nash Point Lighthouse: The Last Light in Wales to See Its Keeper Go In 1998, the keeper at Nash Point Lighthouse on the Glamorgan Heritage Coast turned off the oil lamps for the last time, handed the keys to Trinity House and walked away, making Nash Point the last...

Noss Head Lighthouse: A North Coast 500 Gem With a World-First Lantern On the Noss Head peninsula three miles north-east of Wick, a lighthouse stands above Sinclairs Bay that is less famous than it deserves to be. When Alan Stevenson designed the lantern room here in...