Places to explore in EnglandGreat Britain

Three broad flights of stepped falls carrying the River Ure over limestone shelves through wooded Wensleydale.

North Yorkshire

The Tees hurls itself 21 metres over the Whin Sill in a single roaring drop, one of England's mightiest falls.

County Durham

Antony Gormley's rust-red steel angel, 20 metres tall with a 54-metre wingspan, watching the A1 into Gateshead.

Tyne and Wear

A hundred cast-iron Antony Gormley figures planted along two miles of Crosby beach, all facing the sea and drowning twice a day.

Merseyside

The 158-metre iron tower over the Blackpool prom, the most famous landmark on the Lancashire coast.

Lancashire

Britain's largest gorge, a 400-foot limestone canyon cut through the Mendips with a cliff-edge road, show caves and clifftop walks.

Somerset

Giant biome domes of rainforest and Mediterranean planting built inside a reclaimed china-clay pit near St Austell.

Cornwall

Rocky islands off Seahouses holding tens of thousands of puffins, nesting terns and a large grey seal colony

0.35 km² · Northumberland

A dramatic chalk headland of white cliffs, coves and two lighthouses, ringed by nesting seabirds.

East Riding of Yorkshire

A staircase of ten locks climbing the Grand Union Canal, with the remains of a Victorian boat-lift inclined plane.

Leicestershire

A towering limestone ravine with twin waterfalls, its overhanging walls a magnet for artists and writers for centuries.

North Yorkshire

A glacial chasm bitten clean out of the Pennine scarp, rimmed with columns of Whin Sill dolerite — the Pennine Way walks straight along its northern lip.

Cumbria