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Cliffs of Hoy Orkney Cliffs of Hoy Orkney Orkney Islands • KW16 3NJ

The Cliffs of Hoy on the west coast of the island of Hoy in Orkney are the highest vertical sea cliffs in Britain, the St John's Head section rising approximately 335 metres from…

Isle of Skye Quiraing Isle of Skye Quiraing Highland • IV51 9JH

The Quiraing is the finest section of the Trotternish landslide landscape on the northern Isle of Skye, a complex of tilted rock pinnacles, grassy terraces and dramatic basalt…

West Highland Way West Highland Way Highland • G63 0AW

The West Highland Way is Scotland's oldest and most celebrated long-distance walking route, running 96 miles from Milngavie on the outskirts of Glasgow to Fort William at the foot…

Hermitage Birnam Walk Hermitage Birnam Walk Perth and Kinross • PH8 0HX

The Hermitage near Dunkeld in Perthshire is one of the finest and most dramatic landscape walks in Highland Perthshire, a designed landscape of the eighteenth century around the…

Isle of Mull Isle of Mull Argyll and Bute • PA65 6BD

The Isle of Mull is the second largest of the Inner Hebrides, lying off the west coast of Scotland and separated from the mainland by the Sound of Mull. Covering nearly 900 square…

Killiecrankie Pass Killiecrankie Pass Perth and Kinross • PH16 5LG

The Pass of Killiecrankie in Perthshire is one of the most dramatic and historically significant gorges in Scotland, a deep wooded ravine through which the River Garry forces its…

John O'Groats John O'Groats Highland • KW1 4YR

John O'Groats occupies a unique place in the British imagination as the northeastern terminus of the most famous end-to-end journey across Britain, the 1,407-kilometre route from…

Loch Tay Loch Tay Stirling • PH15 2HR

Loch Tay is one of the largest freshwater lochs in Scotland, stretching approximately 23 kilometres through the magnificent scenery of Highland Perthshire between the towns of…

Aberlady Bay East Lothian Aberlady Bay East Lothian East Lothian • EH32 0QB

Aberlady Bay on the south shore of the Firth of Forth in East Lothian was the first statutory Local Nature Reserve declared in Britain, a designation made in 1952 that recognised…

Portpatrick Dumfries and Galloway Portpatrick Dumfries and Galloway Dumfries and Galloway • DG9 8JL

Portpatrick is the most attractive village on the Galloway coast of southwest Scotland, a small harbour settlement above the Irish Sea at the western end of the Rhins of Galloway…

Inner Hebrides Isle of Colonsay Inner Hebrides Isle of Colonsay Argyll and Bute • PA61 7YR

Colonsay is one of the most remote and most completely satisfying of the Inner Hebrides islands, a small island of approximately 20 square kilometres accessible by ferry from Oban…

SEA LIFE Loch Lomond SEA LIFE Loch Lomond West Dunbartonshire • G83 8QL

SEA LIFE Loch Lomond is an aquarium and marine experience centre located in Balloch, at the southern tip of Loch Lomond in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. It forms part of the…

Corrour Station Highland Corrour Station Highland Highland • PH30 4AA

Corrour is the most remote railway station in Britain, a halt on the West Highland Line to Fort William on the bleak and beautiful moorland of Rannoch Moor at 411 metres above sea…

Duncansby Head Duncansby Head Caithness • KW1 4YR

Duncansby Head is the most northeasterly point of the British mainland, a dramatic headland of red sandstone just east of John o'Groats in Caithness whose combination of the…

Glencoe Glencoe Highland • PH49 4HX

Glencoe is the most dramatic and most historically resonant mountain valley in Scotland, a great glacially carved trough in the western Highlands whose combination of towering…