An invigorating search for Britain's windiest place
An invigorating and mythical search for Britain's windiest place Chris Moss seeks out England’s only named gust and the top spots for windbathing, from Shetland to Land’s End Wind is to the UK what sunshine is to Spain Credit: Getty Legends about the wind flit and blow around these exposed British Isles: that an arid easterly helped fuel the Great Fire of London, that the weathercocks atop our churches point to the cockerel that crowed when Peter denied knowing Jesus, and that the Scouse accent got its distinctive hoarseness from the gusts blowing down the Mersey Tunnel. Possible, probabl...