Category
Islands
British and Scottish islands large enough to visit — ferry-served, causeway-linked or remote and uninhabited.
692 places in this category.
Islands by region
Highlights
Islands · Scottish Lowlands
Ailsa Craig
Ailsa Craig — island in the outer Firth of Clyde, South Ayrshire, Scotland, UK.
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Islands · Scottish Highlands
Bac Beag
Bac Beag — Scottish island, part of the Treshnish Isles in the Inner Hebrides.
Islands · Scottish Highlands
Bac Mòr
Bac Mòr — island in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK, one of the Treshnish Isles.
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Islands · Scottish Highlands
Baleshare
Baleshare — flat tidal island in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK.
Islands · Scottish Islands
Balta
Balta — island of the Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK, east of Unst.
Islands · North Wales
Bardsey Island
Bardsey Island — island off the coast of North Wales.
Islands · Scottish Highlands
Barra Head
Barra Head — southernmost island of the Outer Hebrides in Scotland, UK.
Islands · Scottish Highlands
Berneray
Berneray — island in the Sound of Harris, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK.
Islands · Scottish Islands
Bigga
Bigga — an uninhabited island in the Yell Sound between the Mainland and Yell in Shetland, Scotland.
Islands · South West England
Bishop Rock
Bishop Rock — islet in the Atlantic Ocean, at the Isles of Scilly, England.
Islands · Scottish Highlands
Boreray
Boreray — uninhabited island in St Kilda archipelago, Scotland.
Islands · Scottish Islands
Bressay
Bressay — populated island in the Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK.
Islands · South East England
Brownsea Island
Brownsea Island — island in Poole Harbour, Dorset, England, UK.
Islands · Scottish Highlands
Cairn na Burgh Beag
Cairn na Burgh Beag — one of the Treshnish Isles in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland.
Islands · Scottish Highlands
Cairn na Burgh Mòr
Cairn na Burgh Mòr — one of the Treshnish Isles in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland.
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Islands · Scottish Islands
Calf of Flotta
Calf of Flotta — small island in Scapa Flow, Orkney, United Kingdom.
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Islands · Scottish Highlands
Cara Island
Cara Island — small island located off the west coast of Kintyre in Scotland.
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Islands · South West England
Castle Bryher
Castle Bryher — island in Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom.
Islands · North West England
Chicken Rock
Chicken Rock — the southernmost island administered by the Isle of Man.
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Islands · Scottish Highlands
Coll
Coll — island and parish in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland.
Islands · Scottish Highlands
Colonsay
Colonsay — island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, located north of Islay and south of Mull.
Islands · South Wales
Denny Island
Denny Island — island in the Severn Estuary in Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom.
Islands · Northern Ireland
Derrywarragh Island
Derrywarragh Island — island in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
Islands · Northern Ireland
Devenish Island
Devenish Island — island in Lower Lough Erne, Northern Ireland.
Islands · South West England
Drake's Island
Drake's Island is a island in the United Kingdom.
Islands · Scottish Highlands
Easdale
Easdale — one of the Slate Islands, in the Firth of Lorn, Scotland.
Islands · Scottish Islands
East Burra
East Burra — one of the Scalloway Islands, a subgroup of the Shetland Islands in Scotland.
Islands · Scottish Highlands
Eigg
Eigg — one of the Small Isles in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland, UK.
Islands · Scottish Highlands
Eileach an Naoimh
Eileach an Naoimh — uninhabited island, Garvellachs, Scotland.
Islands · Scottish Highlands
Eilean Choraidh
Eilean Choraidh — island in Loch Eriboll, Sutherland, Highland, Scotland, UK.
Islands · Scottish Highlands
Eilean Mhic Coinnich
Eilean Mhic Coinnich — island off the coast of Islay in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK.
Islands · Scottish Highlands
Eilean Musdile
Eilean Musdile — an islet to the south west of Lismore in the Inner Hebrides.
Islands · Scottish Highlands
Eorsa
Eorsa — island. Off the coast of Mull, Scotland, in United Kingdom.
Islands · Scottish Islands
Fair Isle
Fair Isle — island at the south of the Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK.
Islands · Central Scotland
Fidra
Fidra — uninhabited island in the Firth of Forth, on the east coast of Scotland.
Islands · Scottish Highlands
Fladda
Fladda — northernmost of the Treshnish Isles, Scotland, United Kingdom.
Islands · Scottish Highlands
Flodaigh
Flodaigh — a tidal island lying to the north of Benbecula and south of Grimsay in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland.
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Islands · Scottish Islands
Flotta
Flotta — small island in Orkney, Scotland, UK, lying in Scapa Flow.
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Frequently asked questions
- How many islands are in this guide?
- We currently list 692 islands across the United Kingdom — every entry sourced from Wikipedia, Wikidata or OpenStreetMap and validated against our schema.
- Are these places free to visit?
- Many places in the guide are free to enter — almost every national museum, every public park and garden, every parish church and cathedral. Castles, historic houses and theme parks usually charge admission; National Trust and English Heritage members visit those properties free.
- Where does the data come from?
- Every entry is built from open data: OpenStreetMap (locations, tags, opening hours), Wikipedia (descriptions), Wikidata (structured facts and operator information), Wikimedia Commons (images), ONS open data (population). The site never makes runtime API calls — everything is fetched at build time and committed.
- How often is this updated?
- A weekly automated job re-fetches the upstream sources and rebuilds the site. Manual editorial corrections are applied as overlays on top of the open data.