Islands in EnglandEngland

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

0.35 km² · Northumberland

Chalk downs ending at the Needles, Osborne and Carisbrooke Castle, dinosaur-fossil coasts and sailing at Cowes, a short ferry from the mainland

394 km² · Isle of Wight

Tidal island in Mount's Bay topped by the St Aubyns' castle and chapel, with a harbour village and terraced gardens below

0.24 km² · Cornwall

Five inhabited islands among scores of rocks and islets off Land's End, with white-sand beaches, Tresco Abbey Garden, seabirds and inter-island launches

23 km² · Cornwall

Granite island in the Bristol Channel with puffins, seals, the Marisco Tavern, the Old Light and Landmark Trust cottages to stay in

4.2 km² · Devon

Tidal island reached by a causeway that floods twice daily, with the priory ruins, Lindisfarne Castle, a village and dune walks

4.9 km² · Northumberland

Tidal island off Bigbury-on-Sea with an Art Deco hotel, the old Pilchard Inn and a huer's hut on the top

Devon

Seaside island between Langstone and Chichester harbours, with long shingle beaches, the Hayling Billy Trail and birdwatching at the Oysterbeds

16 km² · Hampshire

Tidal Essex island reached by the Strood causeway, with West Mersea's oysters and beach huts and Cudmore Grove country park

17 km² · Essex

National Trust island in Poole Harbour where red squirrels survive, with a wader-filled lagoon, woodland paths and the first Scout camp site

2.1 km² · Dorset

Long white beaches such as Great Bay, the red-and-white striped daymark, prehistoric cairns and seal trips out to the Eastern Isles

2.2 km² · Cornwall

Thames Estuary island with Minster Abbey, clay cliffs full of fossils, the Elmley marshes' birds and Leysdown's beaches

89 km² · Kent

Scilly's smallest inhabited island, with Atlantic swell at Hell Bay, prehistoric cairns on Shipman Head and sheltered Rushy Bay

1.2 km² · Cornwall

RSPB island in the River Ore, visited on booked trips from Orford for avocets, terns and hides over brackish lagoons

1 km² · Suffolk

Three red-sandstone tidal islands off West Kirby, walked to across the sands at low tide, with grey seals and wading birds

Merseyside

Cornwall Wildlife Trust island a mile off Looe, with a self-guided trail, nesting seabirds, grey seals and a medieval chapel site

Cornwall

Small island with the ruins of Piel Castle, built by Furness Abbey's monks, and the Ship Inn, whose landlord is crowned King

Cumbria

Uninhabited twin-hilled island with the ruined cottages of families removed in 1855, prehistoric tombs on both hills and empty beaches

0.37 km² · Cornwall

Uninhabited barrier island of dunes, saltmarsh and empty sands off Brancaster, with nesting terns and wintering geese

2.8 km² · Norfolk

Scilly's southernmost community, with the Troy Town maze, a sandbar walk to Gugh and its standing stone, and wide Atlantic views

1.4 km² · Cornwall

Scilly's largest island, with Hugh Town's harbour, the Garrison walls and Star Castle, prehistoric tombs and boats to every off-island

6.4 km² · Cornwall

Steep limestone island in the Bristol Channel with Victorian gun batteries, medieval priory remains, wild peonies and gull colonies

0.2 km² · Somerset

Tresco Abbey Garden's subtropical plants, Cromwell's Castle and King Charles's Castle, and white-sand bays on an island you can walk round

3 km² · Cornwall

Long island off Barrow with Irish Sea beaches and nature reserves at both ends, known for eiders, gulls and natterjack toads

13 km² · Cumbria