Hidden places in United Kingdom

A medieval castle and town walls by an estuary in North Wales.

Honey-coloured stone villages in rolling English countryside.

Clifftop castle ruins on a rock almost cut off from the mainland.

A castle on a tiny island where three sea lochs meet.

A Cornish harbour town with beaches and a castle.

A curving railway viaduct and a monument at the head of Loch Shiel.

A quirky mill town in a steep wooded Yorkshire valley.

A food-loving market town below a castle ruin.

A harbour town and gateway to the Hebrides, known as Scotland's seafood capital.

A Highland town with whisky distilleries and forest walks.

An Italian-style fantasy village on a Welsh estuary.

A hilltop town of cobbled lanes and half-timbered inns.

A medieval university town with a ruined cathedral above the sea.

A Cornish harbour town with turquoise beaches and an artists' colony.

Shakespeare's riverside home town.

Pastel houses inside medieval walls above golden beaches.

A fishing town below a ruined clifftop abbey that inspired Dracula.

The UK's largest national park, with pine forests, lochs and mountain plateaus.

A natural limestone arch on the Jurassic Coast.

Lakes and fells in England's favourite national park.

England's largest lake, surrounded by green fells.

Scotland's largest loch, dotted with islands, an hour from Glasgow.

A long, deep loch with a canal village of locks at its southern end.

Heathland and ancient woods where ponies roam free.

A village surrounded by ridges, caverns and a castle ruin.

A row of white chalk cliffs on England's south coast.

A forest village at the edge of Wales's highest mountains.

Chalk hills with wide views, under an hour from London by train.

Around 40,000 hexagonal basalt columns stepping into the sea.

A dramatic glacial valley ringed by steep, brooding mountains.

Jagged ridges, sea cliffs and fairy pools on Scotland's most famous island.

Victorian streets, political murals and the Titanic's birthplace.

A quirky seaside city with a pier and a palace like a maharaja's.

A creative harbour city of street art and colourful houses.

A medieval walled city around a famous cathedral.

A cathedral and castle on a wooded river bend.

Victorian grandeur, Mackintosh design and a big live music scene.

Waterfront docks, music history and grand Victorian buildings.

Red-brick mills turned into bars, galleries and food halls.

Roman baths and elegant honey-stone Georgian crescents.

Historic colleges along a river you can punt on.

Golden-stone colleges, libraries and riverside meadows.

Medieval city walls, a vast Gothic minster and crooked half-timbered lanes.

A castle on a volcanic rock above a medieval old town.

Royal parks, food markets and free world-class museums.