Wonderful WINTER SCENERY

From frosty fields to icy waterfalls, windswept beaches to brooding mountains, winter in Britain offers ever-changing landscapes

- KATY HOLLAND

Braemar, Cairngorm mountains

Scotland

Splendidly desolate, Britain’s largest national park offers soaring snowy peaks, rushing rivers, freezing lochs and expansive snowfields. Nowhere else in Britain has the same scale of tundra-like plateaus and sub-Arctic habitats. Snow covers the numerous 1,000m summits for more than 100 days a year – there are 90km of ski slopes in the Cairngorms – and frozen tentacles reach all the way to the lochs that adorn the foot of the range.

Top spot Surrounded by ancient woodland and mountains, glassy Loch Morlich, just a few miles from Aviemore, is a hidden haven. This area is one of the finest remnants of the ancient Caledonian Forest, home to golden eagles, red squirrels, pine martens, badgers and deer.

Cotswolds Oxfordshire