Best UK photography locations (where you can still avoid the crowds)
May 25, 2021
With travel abroad still looking uncertain this year, top landscape pros compile a new bucket list of great locations in Britain that avoids the obvious honeypots and camera-wielding staycation crowds
Scotland
Eilean Bàn (White Island)
This six-acre island (situated between the Isle of Skye and mainland Scotland) is a haven for wildlife with otters, seals, cormorants, shags and herons regularly sighted from its shoreline.
Eilean Bàn is the former home of author Gavin Maxwell and, as such, there is a museum dedicated to him close to the water’s edge. The island supports one of the struts of Skye Bridge and has its own lighthouse, offering plenty of opportunities for wildlife, landscape and architecture images.
Iconic 16th century Woolpack Inn gets 21st century wifi
Woolpack Inn
An iconic Cumbrian inn can now offer its guests and diners excellent digital connections, thanks to work undertaken during lockdown.
The Woolpack Inn, at the foot of Hardknott Pass at the head of the Eskdale Valley, has had a new network installed to improve its wifi.
Dating back to the 16th century, The Woolpack Inn is popular with walkers as a base for exploring the Eskdale Valley and the neighbouring Wasdale Valley, as well as Englandâs highest mountain, Scafell Pike.
Specialist firm Carlisle-based Integrity IT Solutions carried out the work and the inn now has fast, reliable wifi throughout its Hardknott Bar and Cafe, bedrooms, beer garden, self-catering accommodation and motorhome site.
If you don’t want to stray too far from home on your walking holiday, have you considered a trip to the West Pennine Moors? According to Snaptrip, Lancashire was the third most popular location in the UK for a staycation destination- there was a 60 per cent increase in bookings on the site. These Moors are 90 miles of wild and unspoilt countryside that are a delight to explore on a walking holiday, filled with reservoirs historic villages and dense woodland. Whether you are an experienced walker or someone hoping to take life at a slower pace, there are trails to suit everyone’s experience level.