The North East includes some of the highest quality environmental assets of any English region. Roughly 30% of the region is designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty or National Park, reflecting the national importance of much its landsca...
The North East includes some of the highest quality environmental assets of any English region. Roughly 30% of the region is designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty or National Park, reflecting the national importance of much its landscape.
The most northerly National Park in England, it stretches from the Scottish Border in the north to just south of Hadrian's Wall World Heritage Site.more
North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
The second largest of the 37 AONBs, the North Pennines is one of the most remote and unspoilt places in England.
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Northumberland Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and Heritage Coast
This bright, wild, lonely coast sweeps along some of Britain's finest beaches and is internationally noted for its wildlife.
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Durham Heritage Coast
England's newest Heritage Coast was until recently one of the most heavily polluted coastlines in the country, a legacy from over a hundred years of dumping colliery waste along its beaches. The coast is now transforming and its fine magnesium limestone grasslands, wooded dunes and cliff fully deserve its Heritage Coast status.more
