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Lleyn Peninsula

England's best holiday hideaways revealed

13 August 2008

Britain's best holiday hideaways have been revealed to those who like to get close to nature during their summer breaks.

The Guardian® newspaper has consulted six wilderness experts in order to find the UK's ‘hidden corners’, where ramblers can experience a ‘truly unspoilt landscape’.

Sir Ranulph Fiennes, the intrepid explorer, is the first of these and names Doone Valley in Exmoor as Britain's best-kept secret.

Known as the setting for Lorna Doone, the valley boasts beautiful woods, Rhodesian trees and is described as ‘the kind of place where you can go running on a bank holiday and not meet a soul’.

Author and naturalist Mark Cocker names North Ronaldsay – the most northerly island of the Orkney archipelago – as the perfect retreat from the hustle and bustle of everyday life.

He says: ‘Sitting among this Neolithic stock, listening to the seals singing from the breakers or watching porpoises across the bay, is one of the finest ways I know to shed the worries of the world’.

Other remote rambling locations named by the experts included St Mary's Well, at the tip of the Lleyn Peninsula, opposite Bardsey Island; Keurn Badenach, above the pass of Lairig Ghru in the Cairngorms; Arnside Knott, close to the Morecambe Bay estuary in south Cumbria; and Chapel Fell, close to Malham Tarn in the Yorkshire Dales.

Earlier this week, ramblers were advised by One NorthEast that Bamburgh Castle in Northumberland is a top place to take a picnic.

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