By rural I mean away from both urbanisation – roads, industrial building, estates and also other people – so no camping sites where you can hear people across from you snoring.

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  4. The most remote places are in Scotland – the West/North Highlands in particular. The East and South Highlands areas are all very remote, but if you’re wanting the pinnacle of remoteness, it’s probably around NW Knoydart – it’ll take you all day to walk back to civilisation.

    It’s all relative though. I did a few days hiking in the Lake District not long ago and barely saw anyone for three days. Avoid the tourist paths/bridleways and peaks and it’s easy enough to find solitude.

    But yeah, if you get north of Inverness, you’re onto a winner pretty much anywhere.

  5. There are many campsites in Derbyshire which are a field with a loo on and that’s it, you won hear much from other campers if there are any

  9. This probably works for many of the smaller islands throughout the UK, but go somewhere like the Outer Hebrides and then kayak to one of the hundreds of unhabited little islands. For example, the island of Lingeigh which is about 1km off the coast of North Uist. It’s probably 100 acres, has a small peak, cave, beaches etc. and I can pretty much guarantee you’d be the only person on the whole island. Go there at the right time of year and you’d think you were in the Caribbean.

  10. Just go up a mountain (eg in north wales). Go well equipped and knowing what you need

    Pitch late, decamp early

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