Other sights

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

A quartzite sea arch shaped like the tip of a fiddle bow just off Portknockie, best at dawn with fulmars riding the updraughts.

Moray

A hill in central Edinburgh crowned by the National Monument and Nelson Monument, giving classic panoramas of the city.

Edinburgh

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

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

McAlpine's 21-arch concrete curve of 1901 above Loch Shiel, now timed to the minute by Harry Potter fans waiting on the Jacobite steam train.

Highland

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

A dramatic road pass of slate crags and hairpins linking Borrowdale with Buttermere, one of the steepest in the Lakes.

Cumbria

World Heritage radio-astronomy site near Goostrey, dominated by the giant Lovell Telescope, with a science-centre and arboretum.

Cheshire

A vast curved amphitheatre of white limestone 80 metres high, topped by one of England's finest limestone pavements.

North Yorkshire

The 517m 'Shivering Mountain' above Castleton, an Iron Age hillfort crowning the great Hope Valley ridge walk.

Derbyshire

Open-air amphitheatre carved by hand into the granite cliff above Porthcurno, overlooking a turquoise bay.

Cornwall

Skye's westernmost headland, a Stevenson lighthouse of 1909 at the end of a steep concrete path, with whales and basking sharks passing below the cliffs.

Highland

Barry and Pugin's Gothic home of Parliament, rebuilt after the 1834 fire around medieval Westminster Hall, with Big Ben in the Elizabeth Tower.

London

Telford and Jessop's 19-arch cast-iron aqueduct carrying the Llangollen Canal 126 feet above the Dee, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Wrexham

Twenty-four arches of the Settle–Carlisle line striding across Batty Moss, built in the 1870s from navvy shanty towns whose dead fill Chapel-le-Dale's churchyard.

North Yorkshire

The largest sea-cave entrance in Britain, with a burn falling twenty metres through the roof of its inner chamber — half sea-carved, half dissolved.

Highland

A four-mile gritstone escarpment above Hathersage, the spiritual home of British rock climbing with vast views over the moors.

Derbyshire

The world's only rotating boat lift, linking the Forth & Clyde and Union canals near Falkirk.

Falkirk

The three chalk sea stacks and red-and-white lighthouse off the western tip of the Isle of Wight, best seen from the down and battery above.

Isle of Wight

Towering rock pinnacle on the Trotternish ridge above Loch Leathan, one of Skye's most famous walks.

Highland

The still-moving northern end of the Trotternish landslip — a looping path through pinnacles named the Needle, the Prison and the Table.

Highland

Spectacular gritstone escarpment on the Dark Peak edge, its wind-carved crags climbing to 505m with views to Wales and a hidden pool below.

Staffordshire

A sixty-foot symmetrical cave mouth punched through a limestone crag above the Manifold valley — occupied since the Stone Age, photographed since the Victorians.

Staffordshire

Victorian bascule bridge beside the Tower of London, opened in 1894, with glass-floored high walkways and steam-age engine rooms.

London

A narrow high pass linking the Duddon and Little Langdale valleys, meeting Hardknott at the Three Shire Stone.

Cumbria

Vast open-air museum near Stanley recreating northern life across the 1820s, 1900s and 1940s with trams and shops.

County Durham

England's steepest road, hairpinning out of Eskdale at 1 in 3 past a Roman fort with huge fell views.

Cumbria

The westernmost point of mainland England, its granite cliffs looking out to the Longships Lighthouse and the open Atlantic.

Cornwall

A 137-metre red sandstone sea stack, taller than the towers of the Forth Bridge and first climbed on live television in 1967.

Orkney Islands

Britain's oldest chalk hill figure, a 110-metre stylised horse cut into the downs above the Vale of White Horse.

Oxfordshire

Britain's greatest road climb, a hairpinned single-track pass rising over 600m with views to Skye and the Outer Hebrides.

Highland

Line of dark slate stacks marching across a wide golden beach below high cliffs, said in legend to be a giant's stepping stones.

Cornwall

Chalk cliffs rising 300ft from the sea, England's biggest seabird city with gannets and puffins in season.

East Riding of Yorkshire

The Crowns engine houses clinging to the cliff foot on the Tin Coast, the most photographed ruins of the mining World Heritage Site.

Cornwall

A flight of 29 locks climbing 237 feet in two miles on the Kennet and Avon Canal at Devizes, a triumph of Georgian engineering.

Wiltshire

Dragon's-back reef limestone ridge in the upper Dove valley, a sharp-crested fossil-reef hill with dramatic sunrise views.

Staffordshire

Celebrated limestone ravine on the River Dove, its famous stepping stones crossing below the cone of Thorpe Cloud.

Staffordshire

Tilting 'blinking eye' footbridge that arcs across the Tyne between the Quayside and BALTIC.

Tyne and Wear

Limestone sea arch spanning around 24 metres above the waves on the Castlemartin coast.

Pembrokeshire

Dartmoor's most famous granite tor, an easy climb to sweeping views over the moor and the South Devon coast.

Devon

Striking layered cliffs of white chalk over red limestone and rust-brown carstone above the Wash.

Norfolk

A great overhanging limestone cliff glacier-cut in Wharfedale, its jutting nose a landmark and a climbers' test.

North Yorkshire