Best Things Across The UK

Drummond Castle Gardens: The Formal Terraces That Played Versailles, Above Perthshire The drive to Drummond Castle is itself a preparation: a mile-long avenue of beech trees, reaching overhead, narrowing to a vanishing point ahead. It ends at a gate. Beyond the gate,...

Culzean Castle: Robert Adam's Clifftop Masterpiece, Above the Firth of Clyde When the Kennedy family gave Culzean Castle to the National Trust for Scotland in 1945, they stipulated one condition: that the top-floor apartment be reserved, for as long as he wished...

Dunrobin Castle: The Fairy-Tale Château of the Northern Highlands, Above the Dornoch Firth The architect who redesigned Dunrobin Castle between 1835 and 1850 was Sir Charles Barry — the same man who was simultaneously working on the Palace of Westminster in London....

Urquhart Castle: Loch Ness's Greatest Ruin, Guarding the Waters Since the 5th Century From the top of the Grant Tower, the view is extraordinary: Loch Ness stretches away to the south-west, its dark water running for 23 miles through the Great Glen, the flanking...

Eilean Donan Castle: Where Three Lochs Meet at the Edge of the Scottish Highlands At the precise point where Loch Duich, Loch Long and Loch Alsh converge in the western Highlands of Scotland, a small island rises from the water with a castle on it. The view from the...

Stirling Castle: Where Scotland's Destiny Was Decided, Above the River Forth In 1304, Edward I of England assembled the largest siege machine ever built — a trebuchet named the Warwolf — and used it against Stirling Castle. The garrison had already offered to...