Best Things Across The UK

The Old Lighthouse at Dungeness: A Victorian Tower in Britain's Only Desert Dungeness is like nowhere else in Britain. A vast, flat headland of shingle — grey pebbles stretching to every horizon, sparse vegetation clinging to the stones, fishing boats drawn up on the...

North Foreland Lighthouse: The Kent Beacon That Has Shone Since 1499 The Goodwin Sands lie seven miles offshore from the chalk cliffs of North Foreland, and they have been doing what they do for centuries: appearing and disappearing with the tides, drawing ships onto...

Portland Bill Lighthouse: Red Stripes Above the Channel's Most Dangerous Race At the very tip of the Isle of Portland — a great block of Jurassic limestone connected to the Dorset mainland only by the eighteen-mile sweep of Chesil Beach — a red and white striped tower...

Southwold Lighthouse: The Beacon at the Heart of a Suffolk Town Most lighthouses stand alone — on a cliff, a headland, a remote point of land where the sea has the upper hand. Southwold Lighthouse stands in the middle of a town. Walk along any of the streets radiating...

Cromer Lighthouse: Standing 84 Metres Above the North Sea on the Cromer Ridge There is something quietly astonishing about the numbers at Cromer Lighthouse. The tower itself stands 18 metres tall — modest by lighthouse standards. Yet the light it projects sits 84...

The Old Lighthouse Hunstanton: The Norfolk Beacon That Changed Lighthouse History On St Edmund's Point on the North Norfolk Coast, where the striped cliffs of Hunstanton — banded in layers of red chalk, white chalk and carstone — drop to the beach below and the vast...