Towering beauty

It’s the busiest time of year for Britain’s beautiful places. Yet as these locations prove, you can find silence, sensational scenery and space to breathe.

2025 marks 200 years since the birth of the modern railway, which gave millions of city-weary walkers a way to escape to the country.

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Both imposing and invisible, KIRK FELL is a Lake District conundrum that can only be solved by walking every path on it.

The Victorians confused these Shropshire hills with the Alps. How? Why? Trail dons its lederhosen, downs a glühwein and reaches for the Stretton Skyline to find out.

…it would be LIATHACH . Boisterous, delicately flavoured and fabulously moreish, this is the all-you-can-eat banquet you should sell a relative to attend. Here’s why.