Best Things Across The UK

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...

Mull of Galloway Lighthouse: Scotland's Southernmost Beacon, With Four Countries in View At the very tip of the Rhinns of Galloway — the long, narrow peninsula that stretches south from Stranraer like a finger pointing towards Ireland — Scotland ends at a set of sheer...

Corran Lighthouse Lodge: Britain's First Automated Light, on the Shore of Loch Linnhe Loch Linnhe is a tidal sea loch of the Scottish Highlands — deep, dark blue, its banks rising steeply to the Glencoe mountains on the east and the Ardgour hills on the west. Ben...

Cantick Head Lighthouse: Above Scapa Flow at the Edge of Orkney Scapa Flow is one of the great natural anchorages of the world — a vast, sheltered expanse of water ringed by the Orkney Islands, used as a naval base for centuries and the stage for some of the most...

Ardnamurchan Lighthouse: Egypt on the Edge of the British Mainland At the very tip of the Ardnamurchan Peninsula — the westernmost point of the British mainland, further west than any other part of England, Scotland or Wales — a lighthouse built from pink granite and...

Souter Lighthouse: The World's First Electric Beacon on the Tyne Coast In 1871, something happened at a lighthouse on the cliffs between the Tyne and the Wear that changed the science of maritime navigation forever. On 11 January 1871, Souter Lighthouse was switched...