The north of the Island offers a range of different terrains, from wooded glens, sand-strewn beaches to rugged coastline, all equally as beautiful as the last. Here we take a look at the sleepy but stunning northern village of Sulby.
The north of the Island offers a range of different terrains, from wooded glens, sand-strewn beaches to rugged coastline, all equally as beautiful as the last. Here we take a look at the sleepy but stunning northern village of Sulby.
For anyone who has ever taken a road trip on the Isle of Man, it is not hard to see why popular TV programme Top Gear described it as “a motorist’s Heaven”. But it is not just die hard petrol heads that avail of the joys of motoring on the Island. A combination of limited traffic, stunning vistas and the sheer variety in highways available make touring the island a real pleasure for even the most reticent motorist.
In common with Ireland and Scotland, the Isle of Man saw large-scale emigration in the later eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as Manx men, women and children left the Island to make a new life in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other far-flung corners of the British Empire. Now large numbers of their descendants are returning to discover where their ancestors lived and worked, were married and were buried.