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Ferries, bridges, causeways, flights and tidal crossings: how to reach the islands.
Getting There
How to take your dog to Britain's islands: ferry rules for CalMac, NorthLink, the Isle of Wight and Isle of Man, the best islands for dogs, and the ones that ban them.
From Edinburgh's Cramond Island to Plymouth's Drake's Island and an island in the middle of Oxford, the nearest island to every big city in Britain and Ireland, measured on our map.
On Sark the traffic is tractors, bicycles and horse-drawn carriages; on Iona and the off-islands of Scilly visitors leave their cars behind. The best islands to explore on foot and by bike.
A runway that disappears at high tide, a flight that takes under a minute, and a helicopter to Tresco: the islands you can fly to.
From Telford’s Menai Suspension Bridge to the Churchill Barriers and the causeways of the Outer Hebrides, the islands you can reach without a ferry.
The best tidal islands in Britain and Ireland to walk to at low tide, from Lindisfarne and St Michael's Mount to Hilbre, Worm's Head and Omey, and how to cross safely.
For most of Scotland’s west coast islands, Caledonian MacBrayne, known to almost everyone simply as CalMac, is the lifeline that connects them to the mainland and to each other. Operating more than thirty routes across the Firth of Clyde, the Inner and Outer Hebrides, the network carries residents, visitors, freight and livestock in more or … Continued
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