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Barafundle Bay and Stackpole
Hundleton, Pembrokeshire
A secluded bay of golden sand and clear water, backed by dunes and pine trees, reached only on foot.
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Blakeney Point seals
Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk
A long shingle spit on the north Norfolk coast, home to England's largest colony of grey seals; around 4,000 pups are born here each winter.
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Bodnant Garden
Llansantffraid Glan Conwy, Conwy
One of the great gardens of Britain, above the Conwy valley with views to the mountains of Snowdonia (Eryri).
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Farne Islands
Seahouses, Northumberland
A group of rocky islands off the Northumberland coast, home to around 200,000 seabirds in summer, including tens of thousands of puffins, and a large…
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Giant's Causeway
Bushmills, Causeway Coast and Glens
Around 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, mostly hexagonal, stepping down into the sea on the north coast of Northern Ireland, created by volcanic a…
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Glencoe
Fort William, Highland
Scotland's most famous glen, a dramatic valley in the Highlands surrounded by steep mountains such as Buachaille Etive Mòr and the Three Sisters.
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Hidcote
Mickleton, Gloucestershire
One of England's most influential gardens, created in the early 1900s by the American horticulturist Lawrence Johnston.
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Jurassic Coast and Durdle Door
Wool, Dorset
England's only natural World Heritage Site, a 150 km stretch of coast in Dorset and Devon whose cliffs show 185 million years of geological history, …
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Kew Gardens
Twickenham, Richmond upon Thames
The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, in south-west London, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, hold one of the largest collections of living plants in the wor…
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Kynance Cove
Mullion, Cornwall
One of the most beautiful coves in Cornwall, with white sand, turquoise water and islands of dark red and green serpentine rock.
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Mount Stewart
Greyabbey, Ards and North Down
A neoclassical house on the shore of Strangford Lough, with one of the finest gardens in Europe, created by Edith, Lady Londonderry, in the 1920s.
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Porthcurno and the Minack Theatre
Penzance, Cornwall
Porthcurno is a stunning beach of fine white shell sand and clear blue-green water in a steep cove near Land's End.
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Rhossili Bay
Crofty, Swansea
A three-mile sweep of golden sand at the tip of the Gower peninsula, the first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Britain, often voted one of the …
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Sennen Cove
St Just, Cornwall
A wide crescent of white sand and turquoise water at the far western tip of Cornwall, sheltered by Pedn-men-du headland.
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Sissinghurst Castle Garden
Sissinghurst, Kent
One of the most famous gardens in England, created in the 1930s by the writer Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson around the ruins of…
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Stourhead
Mere, Wiltshire
One of the world's most famous landscape gardens, laid out in the 18th century around a lake by the banker Henry Hoare.
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Stowe Gardens
Buckingham, Buckinghamshire
A vast 18th-century landscape garden full of temples, monuments and bridges, made by the Temple family with help from Capability Brown, who was head …
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Anglesey Abbey, Gardens and Lode Mill
Bottisham, Cambridgeshire
A Jacobean house on the site of an Augustinian priory, filled with the art collection of Lord Fairhaven, who also laid out the large gardens with ave…
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Birmingham Botanical Gardens
Birmingham
Fifteen acres of gardens in leafy Edgbaston, laid out in 1832, with four glasshouses, from tropical rainforest and subtropical to Mediterranean and a…
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Bournemouth Beach and Pier
Bournemouth, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
Seven miles of golden sand, with clean water and Blue Flag beaches, running from Sandbanks to Hengistbury Head.
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Brimham Rocks
Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire
Strange balancing rock formations of millstone grit on a moor in Nidderdale, carved by ice, wind and rain into shapes with names like the Dancing Bea…
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Brownsea Island
Corfe Castle, Dorset
A wooded island in Poole Harbour, and one of the few places in southern England where red squirrels still live.
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Clumber Park
Hardwick Village, Nottinghamshire
Over 3,800 acres of parkland, woods and heath in Sherwood Forest, once the estate of the Dukes of Newcastle.
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Crom Estate
Lisnaskea, Fermanagh and Omagh
A peaceful estate of woods, islands and shores on Upper Lough Erne, one of the most important nature conservation areas in Northern Ireland.
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Formby red squirrels and beach
Formby, Sefton
A stretch of wild sandy beach and dunes north of Liverpool, backed by pinewoods where red squirrels still live.
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Gibside
Rowlands Gill, Gateshead
A Georgian landscape garden in the Derwent Valley, created by the coal baron George Bowes, with a Palladian chapel, a column to Liberty taller than N…
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Glendurgan Garden
Falmouth, Cornwall
A subtropical garden in a valley running down to the Helford River, planted by the Fox family in the 1820s.
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Hatfield Forest
Takeley, Essex
A rare surviving medieval royal hunting forest, much as it was in Norman times, with ancient pollarded oaks and hornbeams, grassy rides and a lake.
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Hengistbury Head, Bournemouth
Christchurch, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
A wild headland at the eastern end of Bournemouth's beaches, with heathland, woods and a sandy spit, and views over Christchurch Harbour, the Isle of…
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Lamorna Cove
Penzance, Cornwall
A small, rugged cove of granite boulders at the end of a wooded valley near Mousehole, which drew a colony of artists in the early 20th century.
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Lizard Point
Mullion, Cornwall
The most southerly point of mainland Britain, with rugged cliffs, a lifeboat station and the white Lizard Lighthouse.
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Mottisfont
East Dean, Hampshire
A medieval priory turned into a house beside the River Test, best known for its walled garden of old-fashioned roses, one of the finest collections i…
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Mumbles Pier and seafront
Swansea
Mumbles is a seaside village on the edge of Swansea Bay, at the start of the Gower Peninsula, Britain's first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
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Murlough National Nature Reserve
Newcastle, Newry, Mourne and Down
Ireland's first nature reserve, a system of sand dunes 6,000 years old at the foot of the Mourne Mountains, with boardwalks leading to a long sandy b…
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Nymans
Handcross, West Sussex
A garden made by the Messel family, plant collectors who brought rare trees and shrubs from around the world.
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Orford Ness
Aldeburgh, Suffolk
The largest vegetated shingle spit in Europe, cut off from the mainland by the River Alde, where secret military research took place for most of the …
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Prior Park Landscape Garden
Bath, Bath and North East Somerset
An 18th-century landscape garden on a hillside above Bath, with one of only four Palladian bridges of its kind in the world.
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Seven Sisters Cliffs
Friston, East Sussex
A series of white chalk cliffs rising and falling along the Sussex coast in the South Downs National Park.
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Sheffield Park and Garden
Newick, East Sussex
A landscape garden with four lakes, laid out in the 18th century and planted with trees from around the world.
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Sheringham Park
Sheringham, Norfolk
A landscape park designed by Humphry Repton, who called it his favourite work, with a huge collection of rhododendrons and azaleas that flower in May…
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The Swiss Garden, Old Warden
Biggleswade, Central Bedfordshire
A romantic Regency garden created in the 1820s by Lord Ongley, with a thatched Swiss cottage, ponds, bridges, a fernery and grotto, and winding paths…
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Valley of Rocks, Lynton
Lynton, Devon
A dry valley running parallel to the sea just west of Lynton, lined with dramatic rocky tors and crags, and home to a herd of wild feral goats that c…
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Wicken Fen
Soham, Cambridgeshire
One of Europe's most important wetlands and the National Trust's oldest nature reserve, bought in 1899.
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Bedford Embankment
Bedford
A Victorian riverside promenade along the River Great Ouse in Bedford, with gardens, tree-lined walks and the white Suspension Bridge.