The UK is home to some remarkable protected landscapes, each offering a different glimpse of wild Britain. Rank these reserves by where you'd most want to spend a weekend immersed in nature.
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RSPB Minsmere
Famous for bitterns, avocets and marsh harriers, Minsmere's reedbeds and heathland have long been a jewel of the Suffolk coast. It's also where Springwatch has been filmed multiple times.
Cairngorms National Park
The UK's largest national park offers ancient Caledonian pine forests, red squirrels, golden eagles and roaming reindeer. A proper taste of genuine wilderness.
Wicken Fen
Britain's oldest nature reserve, managed by the National Trust, is a rare surviving fragment of the once-vast East Anglian fens, home to konik ponies and Highland cattle.
Skomer Island
A short boat ride off the Welsh coast delivers you to one of Europe's most important seabird colonies, with thousands of puffins, Manx shearwaters and guillemots.
Knepp Estate
This former farmland has become Britain's most celebrated rewilding project, where white storks now nest and turtle doves are making an unlikely comeback.
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