We were all there, especially at this time of year when the sun is shining and the school separated. On a country lane, elbow to ellbogen on the beach or at the queue for ice cream in one of the pretty bad villages of the UK.
Whether she believes it or not, although it is the 32nd most densely populated in the world, still a wealth of corners, corners and a few whole regions that are relatively vacant.
In search of such loneliness, the Survey has put together data in which the empty parts of the United Kingdom are displayed by the number of postcode addresses.
We examined the data – about the strange recording of numerous addresses in the city of London (see more below) – and what we think is the highest beauty points in England, Scotland and Wales. If you want to be alone this summer, don’t look any further:
England
St. Agnes
Scilly islands
With only 82 registered addresses, this is the least known and least visited the islands of Scilly, after OS definitions, the empty place in England, Scotland and Wales. The only restriction is that the island is only half a mile long and a third mile wide.
St. Mary’s, the main island of the group in the group (£ 14 Return), is only reached by a 75-minute boat trip and converted with narrow footpaths that rejuvenate past wild Heideland and Schrotter coasts, from where they can recognize dolphins, manx-shearwater and gray seal.
Get some homemade ice cream, butter and clot cream from the Troytown Farm (camping from £ 12.50 per night per night) and take out local jewelry and works of art in the pot buoy before you step on a pint of Turk’s beer, with a view of the harbor on the Turkenkopf- a pub on the island.
Read our Isle of Scilly travel guide
Milton and Waterbeach
Cambridgeshire
Milton and Waterbeach are located directly in front of the ten material places in England, which were put together by OS, but it is the quietest place in mainland English when they exclude the listed parts of the City of London. According to the operating system, the villages have a postcode of 342, although it feels even less when they are here.
The landscape is predictable for somewhere on the edge of the windows, with nothing but sugar beet, wheat and barley fields and cinematic gigantic sky above. Waterbeach is the more attractive of the two villages, with the river Cam chattering next to him; You can drive from here in about 45 minutes directly to Cambridge.
Take a look at the old school building (double from £ 110, B&B), a red Gothic Revival building right next to the village green.
Read our Cambridge Travel Guide
Scotland
Barra and Vateray
Western islands
With a postal address of only 993, OS evaluate these two Hebidian outposts as the empty places in all Scotland festival landing and inhabited islands. These islands are a wilderness of Tufted beaches, treeless, rocky hills and a unique type of lavender flowers, supposedly sown by Bonnie Prince Charlie.
There are only 1,200 people in Barra and Vateray connected by a dam and reached by a five -hour ferry from Oban (return of 32 GBP). The best place for a lonely walk is on the northeastern street, which winds past rocky bays to a statue of Fubbarr, the Irish patron saint of the island. The Heathbank Hotel (doubles from £ 320, B&B) offers cozy rooms and a local menu.
Read our travel guide to Scotland’s 10 largest islands
Shetland West
Shetland Islands
The postcode Shetland West includes a considerable route of the mainland Shetland, from Tresta to Sandness to Skeld. However, this postal delimitation also takes up one of the distant inhabited places in Europe. The tiny, wind -based island of foula.
Foula is only unusually dramatic with a few really immense cliffs through a two -hour two -hour ferry trip from Shetland Harbor of Malls (from £ 16). Fourteen miles often separated turbulent ocean separated foula from everywhere and on a bad day, winds ribs with a rather amazing wildness (which is known to the locals as “flans”) over the island. Arctic Terns, Razorbills and Gannets call this outpost together with around 38 people. But it is the big skuas – the largest colony in Europe – that make most of the noise.
Bed in the risk (01595 753281; from £ 40 per night), a beautifully converted old Croft house at the northern end of the island that sleeps up to eight people.
North Uist
External Hebrids
North Uist slides easily in Scottish top 10 of the strangest places and has a partially drowned landscape, in which a large part of the landscape is immersed in Lochan-Speppert, bobble expansion.
Take a ferry from Uig on the Isle of Skye on the sea route (an hour 45 minutes, return tickets from £ 12.30), which in Lochmaddy Dockt. A pretty harbor that is overlooked by the peaks from North and South Lee.
Deerstalking and trout and salmon fishing are the most important draw for the few visitors who can make it here, but less bloodthirsty serenity is available from the RSPB Balranald (free entry). Here you can recognize corn bunings, Arctic Sea Servations with daisy and butterflowers, sand dunes, sand dunes and a rocky foreland, and, if you are lucky, corncrakes, for which one of your last British habitats is.
Take a look at the Hamersay Hotel (double from £ 195, B&B), a modern hotel with an outstanding restaurant, served the Uist -Jakobsmussels with chorizo butter and, if you dare, Haggis Pakora.
North Islands
Orkney Islands
There are barely 1,800 addresses throughout the northern sweep of the Orkney Islands, which include Papa Westray, Rousay, Sanday, Eday, Stronsay and North Ronalday. It is the last of these outposts to which you should turn to real loneliness.
North Ronaldsay with a population of around 50 years by ferry from the Orkney Capital Kirkwall (two hours from £ 18) is mainly visited by ornithologists who recognize guillemots, cormorants and Waders from the island observatory. There is a guest house in the same location that offers compact rooms and a half board meal (doubles from £ 82).
Since the island only measures three miles by two, it is a simple walk to the new lighthouse. It is the highest land -built lighthouse in Great Britain, which was built in 1854 and appeared almost 140 feet (entrance £ 7).
Loch Tuath/Ulva
Isle of Mull
Mull is one of the most popular islands in the Hebrides, but very few people live or visit his tiny sister island of Ulva over Loch Tuath.
In the 19th century, an estimated 850 people lived here, almost all of whom were used in the extraction and export of seaweed for the use of soaps and glass. The potato hunger from 1846, some brutal evacuations and the collapse of the Kelp market, together to leave Ulva in its current state, with destroyed crofters who line the abandoned streets. Repopulation from the remaining island community in 2018 is an essential goal under new community property.
In the meantime, deer and mountain rabbits will be their main company when they walk between the dense forests and Heather Moorland. Bed down for the night in Whitetail-a yurt yurt in Mongolian style (from £ 69 per night) with a view of the mountain, an inner fire and a sauna.
Wales
Pembroke dock
Pembrokeshire
Discard all comparisons with Dover or Harwich – this international ferry port is about as peaceful as a commercial port. Lonely pleasure can be found 40 minutes on foot in neighboring Pembroke. Home of Pembroke Castle (entry £ 11). The 75 -foot hold is the highlight with oak beams and steep spiral stairs.
Read our travel guide to Pembrokeshire
Llanuwchllyn
Gywnedd
According to OS, Gwyledd dominates the top 10 empty places in Wales, with the village of Llanuwchllyn an address of only 649.
Stay at the southern end and the loudest attraction is the fairly elegant Bala Lake Railway, which chugs on the edge of the water. Then make yourself for the YR Eagles Pub, a good -looking hostel, which was bought by the community in 2023, and serves Snowdonia Ale and doubles as a village.
Spend the night in the BWCH yn Uchaf (double from £ 100), a 19th century house, which was built when the railway was in the Mainline Welsh Rail Network.
Dobenmaen
Gwyledd
With the heights of Snowdonia as the background, the tiny community of Dobenmaen is an ideal starting point for a walk along the Dwyfor river, with its shores lined with alder, pastures and meadows. Pay attention to buzzards and red dragons before visiting the ruins of the modest Dobenmaen lock.
It is also worth visiting the David Lloyd George Museum (£ 8.50 entry) in the nearby Lilystumdwy. This is housed in the child’s house of the former prime minister (his uncle was the village shoemaker) and tells the story of the fast rise of the main wales to the prime minister. Bed for the night in Bwthyn ael y Bryn (from £ 302 per night).