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So much more than the view…England’s Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty and National Parks
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Front cover: Main image - The sun sets on Sutton Bank in the North York Moors National Park, © VisitEngland Images Other images - © VisitEngland, DNPA, Gibsons of Scilly, Real Staithes
Covering a quarter of England, these are our finest landscapes, withiconic archaeological, geological and historical sites and valuablewildlife habitats. They are visited by millions of people every yearand are home to thriving communities who live and work in thesebeautiful areas.
People are passionate about AONBs and National Parks and caredeeply about their future. Those who visit, live or work within thesespecial landscapes, enjoy the wide range of benefits that theyprovide for people and wildlife. They may not realise, however, thatthese dynamic, living landscapes underpin the economy and thehealth and wellbeing of society and that all these benefits come ata very low cost to the English taxpayer – at less than £1 per persona year.
Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONBs) andNational Parks are the most beautiful and cherishedlandscapes in England. They are rightly regarded as atreasured natural resource and are internationallyrecognised for their special qualities.
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National Parksand AONBs are HOME TO OVER
England’s National Parks and AONBs are living, working landscapes, notable for their naturalbeauty and cultural heritage. Visited by millions of people every year, they are home to thrivingcommunities who care passionately for these beautiful areas in which they live and work.
National Park Authorities and AONBPartnerships and Conservation Boardsaim to maintain thriving, livinglandscapes, where natural assets areconserved and enhanced and wherepeople, businesses and communities canprosper, now and in the future.
There are more than 85,500 businesses,from all sectors of the economy, locatedin England’s National Parks and AONBs.They are mainly small businesses andsole traders but some national andinternational companies operate in ourfinest landscapes.
The economies of our National Parks andAONBs are reliant on tourism, agricultureand other land-based activities. Theseactivities depend on high quality naturalenvironments that the landscapesprovide; but can also help maintain andenhance those environments. Attractedby the qualities of our finest landscapes,technology and creative industries arealso flourishing.
Diversity is the key to strong economies.We support innovation and diversification
in rural businesses by providing training,grants, advice, and provision of starterunits, business networks,apprenticeships and other activities tohelp rural entrepreneurs start or growtheir businesses.
Joe Coughlan of Yorkshire Org
anic Millers,
North York Moors National Park North York Moors apprentices
construct a boardwalkHexham Hub business start-up units,Northumberland
Overlooking Keswick in the Lake District
Combined GVA ofNational Parks andAONBs is more than£20BN– similar to that ofBirmingham
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Mountains and moorland, lakes and coast, woodland and grassland, castles andcottages - there are so many varied and beautiful places to visit and enjoy in ourAONBs and National Parks.
As a nation, we love visiting beautifulplaces - whether for a short walk or ride,a holiday break, to climb, canoe orcapture the scene in a photo or painting.AONBs and National Parks are trulypopular places with 260 million visitorsa year. This is more than 40 times theannual number of visitors to the BritishMuseum.
These visitors help support vibrant ruralcommunities, thousands of ruralbusinesses and over 120,000 jobs.Windermere Cruises alone attracts 1.4million visitors a year to the Lake DistrictNational Park.
Leading the way in sustainable tourism anddark sky tourism, we work to gaininternational recognition for the specialopportunities these areas offer. We alsopromote these opportunities by workingwith others including VisitEngland andVisitBritain.
Ensuring an excellent experience for allvisitors is our goal. Investing in sustainabletransport options or new infrastructure,such as visitor centres, are some of theways we do this.
Taking part in English Tourism Week andVisitBritain’s GREAT campaign promotes ouramazing landscapes to worldwide audiences
The quiet roads and stunningscenery of the North Pennines AONBare a huge draw for all cyclists –road, mountain and family. But theterrain is quite challenging forsome. The Electric Bike Networkaims to increase participation byall, providing an additional incomestream for businesses and asustainable form of transport forvisitors to discover the North Pennineslandscape. There are 24 bikes available from 11 Hire Points across theAONB, with plans for expansion.
North PenninesElectric BikeNetwork
Bikes available for hire
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260m
visit AONBs and NationalParks annually, spending inexcess of £6bn andsupporting thousands ofjobs and businesses
people
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AONBs and National Parks are part ofa network of 131 protected areas
in 16 countries developing andpromoting sustainable tourismthough the European Charterfor Sustainable Tourism inProtected Areas.
The Forest of Bowland AONBwas the first area in England to
be awarded the European Charter in2005. A programme of activity was
developed in collaboration with businesses andcommunities to help businesses develop sustainableactivities and communities to celebrate their specialand distinctive qualities. The AONB Partnershipsupports a network of sustainable tourism businesses– Bowland Experience – to provide a framework forsupporting and promoting tourism products andbusinesses in the area.
Similar partnerships and activities benefit businessesand communities in other Charter areas such asExmoor (Exmoor Tourism Partnership) and the Broads(Love the Broads and the STEP partnership).
AONBs and National Parks are at the forefront of theboom in dark skies tourism as interest in astronomyis on the rise. Northumberland is Europe’s first DarkSky Park and Exmoor was Europe’s first Dark SkyReserve. Both have seen a boost in visitor numbersand benefits to tourism businesses of a year roundattraction – the night sky. Other AONBs and NationalParks are applying for this special status whichattracts visitors of all ages. The North Pennines AONBhas some of the darkest skies in the country with 16official Dark Sky Discovery Sites.
of the English coast is
in an AONB or National P
ark Exploring the universe from ourspecial landscapes
Enjoying the Brockhole Visitor Centre inthe Lake District National Park
The Electric Eel quietlycarries passengers on awildlife water trail alongthe hidden dykes behindthe How Hill NationalNature Reserve, BroadsNational Park.
Exmoor star trails and
Blagdon Cross signpost
Children enjoying the dark skies
SO
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No ticket barriers, no entry fees – our National Parks and AONBs are opento everyone, 24/7, all year round.
National Park Authorities and AONBPartnerships and Conservation Boardswork with a wide range of organisationsto reach out to communities who mightnot otherwise have the chance to visitthe countryside and engage with newaudiences who can enjoy and beinspired by these beautiful places.
We also provide opportunities andfacilities such as Miles without Stilesroutes which are useable by anyoneincluding parents with buggies,wheelchair users or people with limitedmobility who might find ordinary footpathstoo difficult to negotiate.
of people in Englandlive within
travel ofa NationalPark or AONB
66%MORE
THAN
12/hrs
The Mendip Hills AONBintroduced a Young RangersScheme in 2005 linked tothe EUROPARC JuniorRanger programme. Thescheme offers a 2-yearprogramme of variedactivities, held once amonth, for 15 YoungRangers aged 13-15 yearsselected from localschools. The young rangers work locally but also havethe opportunity to attend the annual European Young Ranger conferenceand learn about other countries and cultures too.
Young RangersScheme
Young Rangers in the Mendip Hills
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Disabled Ramblers group on moorland trip with rangers
River Dart, Holne Bridge
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Family walking through Dalby Forest inthe North York Moors National Park
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We offer opportunities for all ages to getinvolved and experience what our finestlandscapes have to offer. A ranger orvolunteer guide can accompany a groupto talk about the landscape, heritage andwildlife.
To help us keep our National Parks andAONBs special and accessible to all, ourenthusiastic volunteers contribute over500,000 work days worth over £40 millioneach year clearing scrub, repairing paths,leading walks, working in visitor centres,surveying habitats, mending walls,marshalling events and a myriad of otheractivities.
National Park and AONB
volunteers put in over
half a million work daysa year, worth
to conserve the
landscape and improve
access
£40mMosaic Young C
hampions get hands on
with new born lambs in Grinto
n, Yorkshire
Dales National Park
Top: Malham day out, Yorkshire Dales National Park
Below: Fishing under licence atKilnsey Park Estate, Wharfedale
Cropton Forest in the Snow
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From the Picturesque movement inthe Wye Valley of the 18th century tothe landscape-inspired electronica ofGrasscut in the 21st, great names ofthe past and present, working with allart forms thoughout the country, drawinspiration from our beautifullandscapes.
Thriving creative communities existthroughout our inspiring landscapesand their work can be seen and heardboth worldwide and more locally.
Our finest landscapes produce greatvoices and unique sounds and providedirect inspiration for many composersand musicians such as Elgar, VaughanWilliams, Britten, The Smiths, TheLevellers, Kathryn Tickell, PJ Harveyand Richard Skelton as well as brassbands, folk, punk and pop groups,choirs and classical orchestras.
Our beautiful landscapes have provided inspiration for some of ourgreatest works of art and literature from poets, novelists, painters,photographers, musicians, film makers and all forms of creative artand craft.
Durdle Door, Dorset AONB
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“The Downs…too much for one pair of eyes, enough to float a whole
population in happiness, if only they would look.”
Virginia Woolf (Diaries, 1937)
The beauty of our special places hasinspired many poets over the centuriesincluding household names such asWordsworth, Coleridge, Sir JohnBetjeman, Simon Armitage andDeborah Harvey.
Great landscape artists such asConstable and Turner, David Hockneyand Andy Goldsworthy have producedworld renowned work with inspirationfrom, and celebrating, our landscapes.
Great novelists such as The Bröntesand Hardy, Margaret Drabble andGraham Swift and writers aboutlandscape, society and nature such asAlfred Wainwright, Gilbert White orRobert Macfarlane have all beensimilarly inspired.
Great photographers capture thebeauty and moods of landscape andnature such as Fay Goodwin, JoeCornish and Richard Billingham.
Inspired By Gallery at The Moors National Park Centre, Danby, North York Moors
Visit Dedham Vale AONB at the heartof Constable Country to see theplaces that inspired some ofConstable’s greatest works.
"All this altering year you’vecalled mefrom the hills above NetherStowey,in the shifting of fossils andsiltstonesthat clutter Kilve’s wildernessshore"
An extract from 'Coleridge changes hislibrary books' inspired by the QuantockHills AONB. By kind permission ofDeborah Harvey.
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Stars of the silver screenOur beautiful landscapes and the buildings within them have provided inspirationfor many TV and movie blockbusters.
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Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland Coast AONB,filming location for ‘Macbeth’
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Screen tourism is a growingphenomenon, with more and morelocations across the country benefitingfrom a booming screen industry. Formany years, popular television serieshave brought our wonderful landscapesand communities to huge audiences andinspired people to visit the locations.
Our AONBs and National Parks arefavourite locations for many directors.Increasingly, people want to visit andexplore the places they see on televisionand at the cinema. In 2014, thesevisitors brought between £100-£140
million to England’s economy (outsideLondon), with the most popular locationsgenerating up to another £1.6 millionevery year in international visitor spend.
Dartmoor National Park provided manyof the stunning locations for the 2012award winning film War Horse. Specialiststaff from the National Park Authorityprovided advice and assistance to the
production team before and during thefilming process.
Cornwall AONB's rugged coast andmining heritage was the setting for the2015 BBC adaptation of Poldark. ThePeak District has seen Keira Knightley invarious roles including Elizabeth Bennetin the 2005 film Pride & Prejudice andthe title role in 2008’s The Duchess
which also filmed in the Norfolk CoastAONB.
Location filming in our lovely landscapesis not just a modern phenomenon. TheDambusters (1954) gave the Derwentand Howden Dams in the Peak District astarring part, recreating the role theyplayed in World War II as practicegrounds for the famous Barnes Wallisbouncing bombs. Today many peoplecome to the dams to both rememberwartime achievements and visit the siteof a movie classic.
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"I have never before, in my long and eclectic career, beengifted with such an abundance of natural beauty as Iexperienced filming War Horse on Dartmoor...
And, with two-and-a-half-weeks of extensive coverage oflandscapes and skies, I hardly scratched the surface of thevisual opportunities that were offered to me".
Film Director, Steven Spielberg
Above Top: Lancaster bomber flying over the damsin the Upper Derwent Valley for a Dambustersmemorial event in 2013
Above Bottom: Location of Brideshead Revisited,and other TV series and films, Castle Howard, in theHowardian Hills AONB
Above Top: Chapel Porth St Agnes, Cornwall AONB,location for Poldark TV series
Above Bottom: Filming on Bodmin Moor, Cornwall
Merrivale stone row at sunset, Dartmoor
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Foodie heavensYou can’t eat the view but you can ‘drink it in’ while enjoying top quality localproduce in friendly surroundings.
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Our National Parks and AONBs are thehomes of distinctive internationallyknown products such as GrasmereGingerbread, Wensleydale, Cheddar andDorset Blue cheeses, Bakewell Puddingsand Cornish Clotted Cream. They canprovide an experience to suit everypalate and pocket from cosy traditionalcream teas to Michelin-starredrestaurants serving the finest dishes.
With agriculture and tourism forming themainstays of our local economies, it isno surprise that we have found manyways to combine the production ofdistinctive, high quality produce with awarm welcome. Centres of excellence,such as the Suffolk Food Hall orChatsworth Farm Shop, showcase localproduce and cuisine.
A traditional Cornish cream tea by the harbour
Perfect combination? A selection of cakes and aview of Staithes, North York Moors National Park
The Vikings introduced the tradition of baking for guests and a cakethat became known as Yorkshire Parkin. With an incredible range oftastes and cake-eating locations, the North York Moors has laid claimto be Britain's Capital of Cake!
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Our market towns and specialist shops areproud and keen to stock local food anddrink. You can find quality produce such asWest Country Beef and Lamb or Yeo Valleydairy products in shops across the country,or order on-line.
A variety of drinks areproduced in our mostbeautiful landscapes:apple juice from the WyeValley, Kent or Devon, a fine selection ofbeers, ciders or perryfrom across the country,
wine from Sussex orSurrey or even whisky from
the Lake District.
Supporting local food businesses
Partnerships such as Dorset Food and Drink and theNew Forest Marque promote local growers, processors
and retailers to help them reach widermarkets and provide assurance of qualityand provenance to customers. Suchpartnerships exist in many National Parksand AONBs.
The new South Downs Food EnterpriseZone, where the South Downs National Park
Authority is working with the Local EnterprisePartnership, will help develop and promote local foodproducers and distinctive products. Food and drink
businesses in the South Downs National Park can alsoget a free publicity boost through an online directoryand a networking service to help promote their produceto local people and visitors.
Display of local produce at the Setle
y Ridge
Vineyard Farm Shop, New Forest National Park
Above: English Sparkling wine at the CourtGarden vineyard, Ditchling, South DownsNational Park
Left: A warm welcome is certain at theWensleydale Creamery shop, YorkshireDales National Park
Below: The Michelin starred Yorke Arms in Ramsgill,Nidderdale AONB
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Healthy landscapes,healthy peopleOur beautiful landscapes provide inspiration for getting fit and remaininghealthy and help to inspire sporting success.
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We have long known that moderateactivity is good for us physically. Morerecently, evidence has shown that beingactive outdoors can bring substantialmental health benefits by reducing stresslevels and enhancing mood. Sharing theexperience with others also improvessocial networking and connectedness.
AONBs and National Parks offer a widerange of environments and methods ofbringing benefits to our health and well-being. Walking is one of the easiest,
cheapest and most ubiquitous ways ofkeeping fit, but you can do anything fromabseiling to zorbing in our beautifullandscapes.
Projects with health benefits, such as WyeValley Mindscape and Moor to Enjoy, areset up and run by the bodies which carefor our most treasured landscapes.
Moor to Enjoy is a ground breakingpartnership between Exmoor NationalPark Authority and the Health andWellbeing Boards of Devon and Somerset.The first of its kind in England, it aims todemonstrate how access to green spacecan reduce the need for drug basedinterventions or the development of longterm conditions.
The MindSCAPE Project has beendeveloped to enable people living withdementia and their carers, both familyand professional, to reconnect withthe landscape in a sociable andcreative way. The project is apartnership set up by the Wye ValleyAONB Unit with the ForestryCommission, Forest of Dean District Council, DementiaAdventure, the Alzheimer's Society, the Forest of Dean DementiaAlliance and supported by funding from the Big Lottery.
Hannah and Graham examinenatural artwork
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Now in its 26th year, the World PilotGig Championships in the Isles ofScilly attract international spectatorsand competitors. The “gigs”, aretraditional wooden boats, typically 32feet long by 5 feet wide, some datingback to 1830 but new ones are stillbeing built. Gig racing evolved fromthe desire to get a pilot out to a ship– with the first pilot getting to theship winning the lucrative pilotagecontract.
Pilot Gig World Championships 2012 –the ladies’ race
Gig racing
Surfing at Saltburn, North York Moors National ParkOlympic Road Cycle Race 2012, Box Hill, Surrey Hills AONB
Le Grand Depart 2014 - Tour de France comes through Cray, Wharfedale, Yorkshire Dales National Park
Sailing yachts in The Broads National ParkWalkers near Jack and Jill windmills, South Downs National Park
Spectator or sporting superstar
AONBs and National Parks providetraining grounds for some of our eliteathletes and a backdrop for national andinternational sporting events.
If something more than a gentle stroll isyour thing, you can watch or participate ina huge array of events: half-marathons,triathlons, IronMan challenges, the TenTors event, the Great North Swim, fell
running, kayaking, horse racing, sailing orrowing events and many more. JessicaEnnis-Hill, Jonathan and AlistairBrownlee, Ben Ainsley, Lizzie Armitsteadand Mark Cavendish are just some of themany sporting greats who train in and areinspired by our magnificent landscapes.
In 2012, Box Hill in the Surrey Hills AONBprovided a spectacular scene andchallenge for both the men’s andwomen’s Olympic road cycle races and in
2014 Nidderdale AONB, the YorkshireDales and the Peak District NationalParks welcomed millions of visitors as theGrand Depart of the Tour de France cameto Yorkshire. The Grand Depart 2014 wassuch a success that a new annual event,the Tour de Yorkshire, saw its first race in2015. It generated great excitement,attracted competitors and spectatorsfrom all over the world and internationalTV coverage.
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Where everyone canget closer to nature Hear the boom of the bittern or see the nimble dash of the red squirrel.National Parks and AONBs are places where wildlife can truly flourish and arehome to some of England’s rarest plants and creatures.
The variety of our landscapes supports abreadth of habitats, from lowland fens toupland heathlands, and deep lakes toclear chalk streams. More than half ofthe sites identified nationally as prioritiesfor conservation are found in ourNational Parks and AONBs.
We support landowners and landmanagers to help ensure that thesehabitats are maintained in goodcondition, and look for opportunities toexpand and join up habitats to providemore space for nature.
Our network of habitats provides homesfor many of England’s rare andthreatened species, which often need aspecial conservation focus to halt theirdecline and help to increase theirnumbers and distribution. We work with
specialists to put in place projects thatsurvey and monitor species, and takeaction to provide the conditions they needto thrive. One example is the All the MoorButterflies Project taking place acrossdesignated landscapes in the south west.
50%of SSSIs
are in NationalParks orAONBs -protectingsome of our
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A swallowtail butterfly Lapwing, Danby BeaconWild orchid
most importantwildlife habitats
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National Parks andAONBs are places wherepeople can connect withnature. They offerfantastic opportunitiesfor people to learnmore about the naturalworld, and the placeof humans within it.Every year thousandsof people areinvolved involunteeringactivities to surveywildlife and improve
habitats in ourdesignated landscapes, and outreach andeducation activities help people of all ages to enjoyunforgettable experiences that bring them closer toEngland’s wildlife.
The size of the networkof designatedlandscapes means thatthey provide unparalleledopportunities forcoordinated activity thatbenefits nature andpeople at scales thatmake the best ecologicalsense, such as acrosswhole catchments orhabitat areas. The NorthernUpland Chain Local NaturePartnership involves 2National Park Authoritiesand 3 AONB Partnershipsworking together to learn from one another,and to build a strong and coordinatednetwork that underpins a thrivingenvironment-based economy.
Wild mushroomsDipper
Pond dipping' in the Howardian Hills AONB
Top: Dragonfly on The Broads
Below: Barn Owl
Melting snow on Blackthorn
Fawn, Cranbourne Chase AONB
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Where history comes aliveNational Parks and AONBs are treasure troves of significant historic sites spanning the ages from pre-history to World War II. Whatever our age or interest there is a story, building, site or artefact toconnect us to the past and help us better understand our beautiful landscapes.
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History is all around us in National Parksand AONBs, as part of modern day life. Ourhistoric landscapes show the traces of thefull span of our island history; fromprehistoric stone circles and Neolithiccamps, via Roman roads, forts and villas, tothe remains of training sites and airfields forWWI and WWII.
The many lives lived in these landscapesleave their traces in medieval abbeys,workers' cottages, mills, market towns,stately homes and castles. Remains of ourchanging industrial landscape, from the tinand copper mines of Cornwall to the alumworks of the North Yorkshire coast, remindus that these are working landscapes.
The Dorset and East Devon Coast is aUNESCO World Heritage Site, designatedbecause of the continuous exposure of185 million years of the earth's historyin the spectacular cliffs and fossils. Thisarea is worldfamous forthediscoveryof fossils
by MaryAnning andthe part it
plays in our understandingof the history of life on earth.
Charmouth Beach
Ammonite parkinsoni
Try your hand at archeryEnjoying Rievaulx Abbey, North York Moors National Park
Castlerigg Stone Circle, near Keswick in the Lake DistrictNational Park. It is one of Britain's earliest stone circles,dating back to the Neolithic period.
Jurassic Coast - first for fossils
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The evidence of farming lives and methodsacross the ages lives in the landscape andalso in present-day communities throughdeep-rooted festivals and traditions.
We work with bodies such as theNational Trust and English Heritage andwith private owners to enable access toour most important historic sites andbuildings. Providing information andinspiration we bring history alive throughevents and activities.
Projects which engage local people ingathering stories, surveying thelandscape or taking part in digs areincreasingly popular and capturepeople’s interest and imagination,
making new personal connections to thelandscape and history.
Hadrian’s Wall inNorthumberland, a UNESCOWorld Heritage Site, isinternationally famous. It willsoon be home to The Sill:National Landscape DiscoveryCentre. This bold, ambitiousproject will transform howpeople of all ages understandand explore the landscapes,history, culture and heritageof Northumberland and thewider North East.
Far Left: Getting handson with the World War IIexhibition, New ForestNational Park
Left: The Sill: NationalLandscape DiscoveryCentre, NorthumberlandNational Park
More than
8,800Scheduled Ancient
Monuments
are in AONBs and
National Parks,
almost half
of all the SAMs inEngland Drizzlecombe Stonerow, Dartmoor is rich inBronze Age standing stone rings and rows
Stunning geology on sho
w at
Man O’War Cove, Dorset AONB
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National Park Authorities and AONBPartnerships and ConservationBoards, with their dedicated smallteams, deliver significant benefits fortheir communities and the wholenation.
We work with local communities,businesses and others, valuing theirskills, knowledge and energy to addvalue and growth to the localeconomy. Collaborative working andproviding value for money are coreprinciples of our work. By takinginnovative approaches and forgingnew partnerships we achievebeneficial results for people andwildlife.
We are supporting skills development,investing in infrastructure andattracting visitors to promotesustainable rural economies thatconserve and enhance the naturalenvironment for the benefit ofeveryone.
With sufficient resources, NationalPark Authorities and AONBPartnerships and ConservationBoards will be able to continue topromote sustainable growth, providethe wide range of benefits describedin this booklet and contribute to thenation’s prosperity and wellbeing.
Areas of Outstanding Natural Beautyand National Parks in England
National Parks
Areas of OutstandingNatural Beauty
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