Weekend breaks for couples under £300

Dark skies, a book town and a quiet, unspoilt coast

Ruined abbeys, rolling hills and little-visited border towns

The home of the Bakewell pudding, beside Chatsworth and the White Peak

Mountain ridges, waterfalls and some of the darkest skies in Wales

The UK's largest national park, with arctic mountains and ancient pine forests

A cathedral village on the River Tay, in Perthshire's Big Tree Country

A cathedral and castle on a wooded river bend

Moorland, dramatic sea cliffs and a famous dark sky

Scotland's most dramatic glen, with towering mountains and a haunting history

The town of books, on the edge of the Black Mountains

A pretty market town and the gateway to the North York Moors

A handsome Borders town with a Georgian square and Scotland's largest inhabited house

A market town on the River Lune with a medieval bridge and Ruskin's View

Dylan Thomas's village, with a boathouse, a writing shed and a castle

A black-and-white market town at the foot of the Malvern Hills

Britain's largest loch by area, within an hour of Glasgow

A harbour village with a water-powered cliff railway on the edge of Exmoor

An abbey town with a hill walk, the birthplace of rugby sevens

Heather moorland, steam trains and a dramatic coast

Castles, empty beaches, dark skies and Hadrian's Wall

White beaches, standing stones and Gaelic culture at the edge of Europe

A rugged coast of golden beaches, seabirds and a famous coast path

A Highland gateway town with a theatre in the woods and a salmon ladder

A village around a big green, the capital of Swaledale

A Georgian market town beneath a Norman castle, at the door of Swaledale

A tiny cathedral city next door to Fountains Abbey

A smugglers' village tumbling down a steep cliff

A medieval Cinque Port with timber-framed lanes and a private toll bridge

Britain's smallest city, with a cathedral in a hollow and the coast on its doorstep

A cliff-hugging fishing village with a tiny harbour

A Georgian stone town, used as a film location, beside Burghley House

A colourful walled harbour town with sandy beaches

A ruined abbey in the Wye Valley that inspired Wordsworth and Turner

A tiny cathedral city with a moat, swans and a medieval street

A winding river, wooded cliffs and the romantic ruins of Tintern Abbey

Green valleys, limestone scars and drystone walls