Scenic Destinations

The Sea Cliffs of Yorkshire

Over the millennia the North Sea has sliced off the eastern edge of the North York Moors as with a knife, exposing its hard rocky core for all to see—33 miles of continuous pinkish-tan cliffs never less than a hundred feet high and sometimes over 600 feet. Tiny villages shoe-horn into niches in the cliffs, their painted stone cottages terracing up stepped alleys.

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Whitby

This busy fishing town terraces up Yorkshire's sea cliffs, with a ruinous abbey crowning the clifftop. Its history embraces a Dark Age synod, Viking attacks, Captain Cook, and Victorian jet.

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Lancashire's Panopticons

The Panopticons are a public art project meant to highlight both the grand moors and the industrial glory of rural Lancashire. All are impressive, and all give wide views — but over very different terrain.

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The Search & Rescue Dogs of the Lake District

In the boulder covered slopes of England's Lake District, a body lies under a giant rock, hiding the body from view and blocking its scent from the rescue dogs looking for it. Suddenly, a slender border collie named Mist dashes past the rock, then pauses; she has caught the scent of a human. Within seconds, the dog is sniffing the body, pawing it gently, probing under its tightly curled arms, and finding — a squeaky toy. The body sits up, and they both play the game of Fetch the Squeaky Toy.

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Dartmoor

Rough moors topped by strange granite hoodoos, dangerous mires, and village lanes lined by thatched cottages and grand churches — this is Dartmoor, one of England's oddest and most beautiful corners.

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Scotland's Lonely North

Broad views over empty moors and sea cliffs, a few villages, and a main highway that's a single lane wide—it's astonishing that such an empty region could survive in crowded Britain in the 21st century. But here it is.

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