Rock formationsOther sights

Thought to be Britain's largest landslip, over half a mile long, its gritstone towers looking like a ruined castle above remote Alport Dale.

Edale

Twin gritstone pinnacles near Birchover, also called Mock Beggar's Hall, ringed by prehistoric stones and old packhorse ways.

Birchover

A tumble of gritstone outcrops behind Birchover, carved in the 18th century with rooms, steps and seats by an eccentric parson.

Birchover

Natural limestone bridge carrying the moor over the River Greta near Bowes, on the Pennine Way.

County Durham

Line of dark dolerite crags above Holwick, part of the same Whin Sill that carries High Force.

County Durham

Great sea-stack of magnesian limestone standing off Marsden Bay, loud with nesting kittiwakes and cormorants.

Tyne and Wear

South-facing sandstone crag beside the Bowles Outdoor Centre, popular with climbers.

East Sussex

Sandstone boulders up to ten metres high in ferny woodland; a free Sussex Wildlife Trust reserve.

East Sussex

Largest Southern Sandstone outcrop, with hundreds of climbing routes through birch woodland managed by the BMC.

East Sussex

A perforated sarsen boulder in a Kingston Lisle garden that can be sounded like a horn, tied to legends of King Alfred.

Oxfordshire

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

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

A jagged twin-arched sea stack on the shore below Brownsham, reached through Mouthmill on the Hartland coast.

Devon

A weathered granite stack on Hayne Down shaped like a man's profile, the subject of a Dartmoor witch legend.

Devon

A wave-cut Purbeck quarry ledge dropping to the sea, with a small tidal pool blasted into the rock for Victorian schoolboys.

Dorset

Slender pinnacle of rock left by quarrymen on Leckhampton Hill, poised above Cheltenham.

Gloucestershire

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

Devon

A rugged crown of granite stacks beside the ruins of a deserted medieval village on eastern Dartmoor.

Devon

Huge balanced boulder on the Treryn Dinas headland near Treen, once famously rocked and toppled by a naval party.

Cornwall

Three brilliant white chalk stacks and stumps at the seaward tip of the Purbeck, marking the eastern start of the Jurassic Coast.

Dorset

Precarious stack of weather-sculpted granite slabs on Stowe's Hill above Minions, wrapped in giant legend.

Cornwall

Steep gritstone tor at the southern end of the Roaches, a bold outcrop with sweeping views over Tittesworth Reservoir.

Staffordshire

Jagged gritstone ridge beside the Leek–Buxton road, its tilted pinnacles including the famous winking 'Winking Man' rock.

Staffordshire

The largest and most notorious tor on the Stiperstones ridge, a scramble of quartzite wrapped in folklore.

Shropshire

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

Bleak quartzite ridge crested with jagged tors, a National Nature Reserve steeped in devil legend.

Shropshire

Gritstone crag standing alone above lower Wharfedale, a landmark scramble with panoramic views.

North Yorkshire

Millstone-grit outcrops on the edge of Ilkley Moor, a climbers' and walkers' magnet with wide Wharfedale views.

West Yorkshire

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

North Yorkshire

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

North Yorkshire

A field of dark Silurian boulders left perched on pale limestone by melting glaciers, above Austwick.

North Yorkshire

Weathered sandstone tors rising from heather moor and woodland above Dalby Forest.

North Yorkshire

A jumble of sandstone crags on the Cleveland Way escarpment, popular with scramblers and climbers.

North Yorkshire

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

Norfolk

An enormous house-sized boulder balanced in Borrowdale, climbed by a wooden staircase to its top.

Cumbria

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 pocket landslip landscape of grassy cones and lochans above Uig, crowned by the basalt knuckle of Castle Ewen — no fairies required.

Highland

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

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

Highland

An inland crag near Tywyn where cormorants nest, unusual for a colony so far from the present coast.

Gwynedd

Gleaming white quartzite sea arch on the Rhoscolyn headland, with views to Trearddur Bay and Holyhead Mountain.

Anglesey

A glacial cwm below the Glyderau with the dark cleft of Twll Du (Devil's Kitchen) above Llyn Idwal.

Gwynedd

Line of Carboniferous limestone crags and screes, the Seven Sisters, running for around 7km above the Eglwyseg Valley near Llangollen.

Denbighshire

A large flat slab balanced across boulders on the summit plateau of Glyder Fach.

Conwy

Two limestone sea stacks off the Castlemartin coast, a breeding ground for guillemots and razorbills.

Pembrokeshire

Rocky limestone headland dividing Tor Bay from Three Cliffs Bay, a noted sunset viewpoint.

Swansea

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

Pembrokeshire

Deep, sheer-sided limestone chasm on the south coast near Bosherston, named for a folklore leap.

Pembrokeshire

Towering limestone crag at Pontneddfechan, a landmark and climbing site at the edge of Waterfall Country.

Rhondda Cynon Taf

Extensive dune system with the Big Dipper, among the highest sand dunes in Europe.

Bridgend