Yorkshire Dales

Cliffs, crags, gorges, caves and waterfalls give the Yorkshire Dales some of the finest limestone scenery in Britain. The national park’s 1,100 square miles and 20 dales are watched over by the ‘Three Peaks’ – Ingleborough, Whernside and Peny-y-Ghent. Each dale has its own character, patterned with dry-stone walls, barns, stone-built villages and flower-rich hay meadows. Bleak heather-clad fells lie above these pastoral valleys. Among the many natural wonders are Malham Cove, in Malhamdale, with its tarn and limestone pavement, and [...]

Yorkshire Dales2021-06-01T13:29:15+00:00

Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park

The Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park is a place of dramatic contrasts with its high mountains, rolling lowlands, lochs, rivers, moorland and forests. It stretches over 720 square miles and is made up of four areas – Loch Lomond, Argyll Forest, The Trossachs and Breadalbane. Watched over by Ben Lomond, Loch Lomond is the largest expanse of freshwater in Great Britain. Argyll Forest lies beneath the ‘Arrochar Alps’ with a stunning view from the top of Glen Croe. The [...]

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South Downs National Park

The South Downs National Park is a unique combination of glorious rolling downland, ancient woodland, river valleys and busy towns and villages. It covers 1,000 square miles and stretches from the cathedral city of Winchester eastwards to the market town of Lewes. Winchester is the start of the park’s ‘backbone’ – the 100 mile long South Downs Way. This National Trail opens up to walkers, cyclists and horse riders classic chalk landscapes and superb views. These include the Western Weald, the [...]

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New Forest

The New Forest has a rare, beautiful, yet fragile landscape made up of woodland, heathland and river and coastal habitats. It was created by William the Conqueror to chase the deer and wild boar. Some of the park’s oaks are around 600 years old, part of the greatest concentration of ancient and veteran trees in northern Europe. The heather-clad heathland makes way to grassland and waterlogged bogs, or mires. Thousands of ponies, cattle, sheep, donkeys and pigs are put out to [...]

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Pembrokeshire Coast

The Pembrokeshire Coast is the only one of Britain’s 15 national parks that is mainly coastal – nowhere is further than ten miles from the sea. Its rugged cliffs, sandy beaches, rocky coves, heath and woodland have made it internationally important. The spectacular Pembrokeshire Coast National Trail running nearly 200 miles from St Dogmaels south to Amroth is a grandstand for the visitor. It is part of nearly 600 miles of walks, bridle ways and cycle tracks. There are seven National [...]

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North Yorkshire Moors

Nature and history work together to make the North Yorkshire Moors National Park an inspirational place. Its landscapes of moorland, woodland, dales and coast are a foil to ruined abbeys, ancient churches and an industrial heritage. The largest continuous expanse of heather moorland in England is set off by ancient woodland before coming to a halt at tall cliffs overlooking the North Sea. Robin Hood’s Bay and Staithes are two picturesque villages on this Heritage Coast. Curlew and lapwing, rare butterflies [...]

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The Norfolk Broads

This mysterious network of waterways, shallow lakes, woodland, fen and marsh is a very special wetland that bursts with wildlife. The backbone of the Broads is five rivers – the Ant, Thurne, Waveney, Yare and Bure – that reach across Norfolk and Suffolk from Norwich to the seaside towns of Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft. Off these are around 60 broads, lakes and dykes giving 125 miles of navigable waterway, which connect the Broadland communities including Wroxham, the ‘capital’ of the Broads, [...]

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Snowdonia

The Snowdonia National Park has some of the most awe-inspiring scenery in Britain. Reaching south from the mighty Conwy Castle to the glorious River Dyfi, the park is 830 square miles of rugged peaks, steep river valleys and many lakes. It is dominated in the north by Snowdon – at 3,560 feet, the highest mountain in Wales and England – and by Cadair Idris in the south. The park’s nine mountain ranges are complemented by 40 miles of coastline with magnificent [...]

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Peak District

The Peak District has ‘something for everyone’ as a national park. There is walking, climbing, cycling, caving, angling, horse riding and a wild, unspoilt landscape. One of the routes includes four old railway tunnels. The park can be divided into three: the White Peak, in the centre, with its deep valleys and undulating limestone landscape; the moorland and millstone grit of Dark Peak to the north, dominated by Kinder Scout, and the softer moor and grassland of the South West Peak, [...]

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Northumberland National Park

England meets Scotland on the north-west border of this national park, which has been described as England’s most remote. Its popular claim to fame is Hadrian’s Wall but anyone who has walked the Cheviot and Simonside Hills and the Whin Sill and marvelled at the views, will challenge this. The park has some of the best preserved sections of Hadrian’s Wall, including Housesteads Fort, and the National Trail running alongside gives walkers improved access to this World Heritage Site. The Pennine [...]

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Lake District

The biggest of England’s national parks, the Lake District has the country’s highest mountains, deepest valleys and longest lakes. Its 30-mile radius encompasses glacier-etched, tree-clad valleys, meadowland, ancient woodland and challenging ridges and peaks. Scafell Pike is the highest, at 3,210 feet. There are also many miles of gentle lakeside strolls. Look out for red squirrels, roe deer and buzzards. Cruises on the lakes offer amazing views. Those on Windermere allow you to leave the boat and explore Ambleside, Wray Castle, [...]

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Exmoor

Exmoor is a place of great beauty and tranquillity, with scenery of rocky headlands, ravines, caves and waterfalls, which stops suddenly at the highest sea cliffs in England, overlooking the Bristol Channel. Its hilly, heather-clad moorland and tree-clad valleys cover 430 square miles. The South West Coast Path runs along Exmoor’s coast. Other long-distance routes include the Two Moors Way and the Exe Valley Walk. There is also some first rate mountain biking and horse riding and the fast-flowing rivers offer [...]

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Dartmoor

Dartmoor is an archaeologist’s delight and a landscape lover’s paradise. The national park covers 600 square miles of high, boggy plateaux and open moorland and heath, divided by the River Dart. The stark, granite uplands, with their tors, give way to the soft, wooded river valleys and their fast flowing streams. Dartmoor’s history is immense. There are prehistoric stone rows dotting Bronze Age field systems and Bronze and Iron Age hut circles leading up to hillforts. Ancient clapper bridges cross the [...]

Dartmoor2021-06-01T13:53:32+00:00

Cairngorms

The Cairngorms is Britain’s largest national park, with a unique range of landscapes, wildlife and habitats. Its 2,400 square miles has five of Scotland’s highest peaks and the largest area of arctic mountain landscape in the British Isles. Deep, high valleys lead down to huge tracts of ancient, untouched woodland and the rivers Spey, Dee and Don. The park’s vast array of wildlife includes golden eagle and osprey, pine marten, red squirrel and wildcat. The lochs and rivers offer great boating, [...]

Cairngorms2021-06-01T14:00:21+00:00

Brecon Beacons (Bannau Brycheiniog)

The Brecon Beacons (Bannau Brycheiniog) National Park is its own ‘mountain range’ of six main sandstone peaks, with Pen y Fan the highest at 2,907 feet. It 520 square miles is made up of four regions – the Black Mountain to the west, the Fforest Fawr (Great Forest) and the Brecon Beacons in the centre, and the Black Mountains in the east. Much of the park is grassy moorland grazed by Welsh mountain ponies and sheep. It is famed for its [...]

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