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Loch Leathan Dam Loch Leathan Dam Highland • IV51 9NY

Loch Leathan Dam is a modest yet characteristically Highland structure situated on the Isle of Skye in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. This dam sits at the northeastern end of…

Tobermory Harbour Tobermory Harbour Argyll and Bute • PA75 6PR

Tobermory is the main town of the Isle of Mull and its harbour front is instantly recognisable as one of the most distinctive and charming townscapes in Scotland, a terrace of…

St Ninian's Cave St Ninian's Cave Dumfries and Galloway • DG8 8LL

St Ninian's Cave is a small coastal cave located on the southwestern shore of the Isle of Whithorn peninsula in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Despite the coordinates suggesting…

Old Man of Storr Old Man of Storr Highland • IV51 9HX

The Old Man of Storr is the most distinctive and most photographed geological feature in Scotland, a great rocky pinnacle 55 metres high rising from the Trotternish Ridge on the…

Jedburgh Abbey Jedburgh Abbey Scottish Borders • TD8 6JQ

Jedburgh Abbey is one of the great Border abbeys of Scotland, a magnificent ruin set within the pleasant market town of Jedburgh in the Scottish Borders. Founded in 1138 by King…

Fortingall Yew Perthshire Fortingall Yew Perthshire Perth and Kinross • PH15 2LL

The Fortingall Yew in the churchyard of Fortingall village in Perthshire is the oldest living organism in Europe, a yew tree estimated to be between 3,000 and 9,000 years old…

Beinn Eighe National Nature Reserve Beinn Eighe National Nature Reserve Highland • IV22 2PA

Beinn Eighe National Nature Reserve in Wester Ross was established in 1951 as the first national nature reserve in Britain, a designation that recognised both the exceptional…

Loch Lomond Loch Lomond Stirling • G83 8PQ

Loch Lomond is the largest freshwater lake in Britain by surface area, a 71-square-kilometre expanse of water that lies at the heart of Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park…

Isle of Staffa Isle of Staffa Argyll and Bute • PA76 6SN

The Isle of Staffa is a small, uninhabited island in the Inner Hebrides off the west coast of Scotland whose extraordinary geological formations and the celebrated Fingal's Cave…

Portree Harbour Portree Harbour IV51 9DB

Portree is the largest town on the Isle of Skye and its colourful harbour provides the most photographed view on the island: a row of painted houses in shades of pink, yellow, red…

Glen Etive Highlands Glen Etive Highlands Argyll and Bute • PA36 4AB

Glen Etive is one of the most beautiful and most remote of the Highland glens accessible by road, a narrow valley extending fifteen kilometres south from the head of Glencoe to…

Pitlochry Perthshire Pitlochry Perthshire Perth and Kinross • PH16 5DP

Pitlochry is one of the most popular holiday destinations in Scotland, a Victorian spa town on the River Tummel in the heart of Perthshire whose combination of attractive…

Loch Katrine Loch Katrine Stirling • FK17 8HZ

Loch Katrine is one of Scotland's most beautiful and romantically celebrated freshwater lochs, lying at the heart of the Trossachs region in what is now Loch Lomond and The…

Galloway Forest Galloway Forest Dumfries and Galloway • DG8 7AQ

The Galloway Forest Park in southwest Scotland is the largest forest park in Britain and one of the finest Dark Sky Parks in Europe, a vast area of forest, moorland, lochs and…

Isle of Arran Goatfell Isle of Arran Goatfell North Ayrshire • KA27 8HE

Goatfell is the highest mountain on the Isle of Arran in the Firth of Clyde, a granite peak of 874 metres above the town of Brodick whose combination of the accessibility by ferry…