Scenic Place in Scotland
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Portpatrick is a small but exceptionally picturesque harbour village on the Rhinns of Galloway, the southwesternmost peninsula of mainland Scotland in Dumfries and Galloway, and…
Aviemore Cairngorms Highland • PH22 1RHAviemore is the main gateway town for the Cairngorms National Park, the largest national park in the British Isles, and has been developed since the 1960s as a year-round outdoor…
Quiraing Highland • IV51 9JAThe Quiraing on the Isle of Skye is one of the most dramatic and otherworldly landscapes in Britain, a spectacular landslip terrain on the eastern escarpment of the Trotternish…
Calanais Standing Stones HS2 9DYThe Calanais Standing Stones on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides are among the most important Neolithic monuments in Britain, a complex of standing stones arranged in a…
Eildon Hills Scottish Borders Scottish Borders • TD6 9LXThe Eildon Hills above Melrose in the Scottish Borders are three volcanic hills rising from the surrounding farmland of the Tweed Valley in a distinctive triple profile visible…
Loch Rannoch Perth and Kinross • PH17 2QALoch Rannoch in Perthshire is one of the finest and most scenically complete Highland lochs, a freshwater loch of approximately 19 kilometres in length set between the conifer…
Isle of Skye Highland • IV51 9EUThe Isle of Skye is the largest and most visited of the Inner Hebrides, a dramatic and scenically extraordinary island off the northwest coast of Scotland whose combination of the…
Loch Trool Galloway Dumfries and Galloway • DG8 6SZLoch Trool in the Galloway Forest Park is the most scenically dramatic of the lochs in the Galloway Hills, a narrow elongated loch of considerable beauty set beneath the highest…
Cape Wrath IV27 4RXCape Wrath is the most northwesterly point of mainland Britain, a dramatic promontory of Lewisian gneiss 100 metres above the Atlantic in the far northwest corner of Sutherland…
Calanais Stones Visitor Centre HS2 9DYThe Calanais Visitor Centre on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides is the principal interpretive facility for one of the most important prehistoric monument complexes in…
Ailsa Craig Firth of Clyde Buteshire • KA9 2PQAilsa Craig is an uninhabited volcanic plug rising from the Firth of Clyde approximately sixteen kilometres west of Girvan in Ayrshire, a great rounded dome of granite 338 metres…
Loch Tummel Queen's View Perth and Kinross • PH16 5NWQueen's View at Loch Tummel in Perthshire is the most celebrated viewpoint in the Scottish Highlands, a panoramic vista from the clifftop above the eastern end of Loch Tummel that…
King Arthur's Seat City of Edinburgh • EH8 8HGArthur's Seat is the highest point in Edinburgh and one of the most prominent urban hills in Europe, an ancient volcano rising 251 metres above the city centre within Holyrood…
John O'Groats Highland • KW1 4YRJohn 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…
Isle of Mull Argyll and Bute • PA65 6BDThe 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…