Arnside and Silverdale AONB
This AONB's intimate green and silver landscape rises from the shores of Morecambe Bay, with wide views over the Kent Estuary to the Lake District.
Blackdown Hills AONB
The Blackdown Hills are best known for the dramatic, steep, wooded scarp face they present to the north. To the south, the land dips away gently as a plateau, deeply dissected by valleys.
Cannock Chase AONB
Although the second smallest of the AONBs, Cannock Chase, with its doorstep conurbations and coveted mineral deposits, is potentially one of the most threatened of the protected landscapes.
Chichester Harbour AONB
Chichester Harbour is one of the few remaining undeveloped coastal areas in southern England. Rarer still, it remains relatively wild. Its bright wide expanses and intricate creeks are a major wildlife haven and at the same time among some of Britain's most popular boating waters.
Chilterns AONB
The familiar beech and bluebell woods of the Chilterns sits on London's doorstep, extending 70 km from the Thames at Goring Gap northeast to Hitchin. The Chilterns' rounded hills are part of the chalk ridge which crosses England from Dorset to Yorkshire.
Cornwall AONB
This is a heavily fragmented AONB containing some of Britain's finest coastal scenery, including Land's End and the Lizard peninsula.
Cotswolds AONB
The Cotswold Hills rise gently west from the broad, green meadows of the upper Thames to crest in a dramatic escarpment above the Severn Valley and Evesham Vale.
Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs AONB
Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs AONB is part of the extensive belt of chalkland, which stretches across southern England. It is divided into its two areas by the fertile wooded Vale of Wardour.
Dedham Vale AONB
Undulating slopes fall gently to the slow-flowing, meandering River Stour and in its hedged water meadows, copses and riverbank willows; the landscape is perhaps the epitome of the farmed English countryside.
Dorset AONB
Covering some 44 per cent of Dorset, the AONB stretches along one of Britain's finest coastlines and, reaching inland, takes in countryside that still evokes the settings of the Hardy novels.
East Devon AONB
This is an AONB protecting some of the most unspoilt holiday coast in Britain, yet it also encompasses a surprisingly untouched rural hinterland. The coastal landscapes, stretching from Lyme Regis to Exmouth, show the lush, highly coloured scenery of classic 'postcard Devon'.
Forest of Bowland AONB
Bowland's ecological features make it a nationally important area for nature conservation and 13 per cent is designated as a Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI).
High Weald AONB
The term 'Weald' is given to the area between the North and South Downs, which are the outer chalk rims of the ancient Wealden anticline. The sandstones and clays of the exposed centre of the dome, the 'High Weald' give rise to a hilly, broken and remote country of ridges and valleys.
Howardian Hills AONB
The Howardian Hills form a distinctive, roughly rectangular area of well-wooded undulating countryside rising, sometimes sharply, between the flat agricultural plains of Pickering and York.
Isle of Wight AONB
The AONB landscape is of considerable scientific and ecological importance and includes exceptional, flora-rich chalk grasslands, the north coast's major estuarial habitats and the geologically notable southern cliffs and landslips.
Kent Downs AONB
Inland, the Downs rise to over 240m, cresting in a prominent escarpment above the Weald to the south. It is traversed by the three prominent river valleys of the Darent, Medway and Stour.
Lincolnshire Wolds AONB
The chalk hills of the Lincolnshire Wolds roll northwest-southeast between the Humber and the Wash. A peaceful and expansive landscape with fine views, the Wolds have been sheep country for centuries.
Malvern Hills AONB
The special quality of the Malverns lies in its contrasts. The distinctive, narrow, north-south ridge, a mountain range in miniature, thrusts unexpectedly from the pastoral farmland patchwork of the Severn Vale.
Mendip Hills AONB
Stretching eastward from the Bristol Channel, the imposing 300-m ridge of the Mendips rises like a rampart above the Somerset Levels.
Nidderdale AONB
Nidderdale is located on the eastern flanks of the Yorkshire Pennines, stretching from the high moorland of Great Whernside south and east towards the edge of the Vale of York.
Norfolk Coast AONB
The AONB, a long coastal strip, incorporates the finest, remotest and wildest of Norfolk's renowned marsh coastlands.
North Devon AONB
Stretching west and south from Coombe Martin to the Cornish border, this is essentially a coastal AONB containing some of the finest cliff scenery in Britain.
North Pennines AONB
An AONB protecting the wide empty miles of one of the country's last expanses of wilderness, the upland plateau, northern limit of the Pennine chain, stretches away in a high wild landscape of undulating heather moorland and blanket peat.
North Wessex Downs AONB
The evocative, albeit made-up, name for the AONB was created to give a protective coherence to one of the largest tracts of chalk downland in southern England and perhaps one of the least affected by development.
Northumberland Coast AONB
This bright, wild, lonely coast sweeps along some of Britain's finest beaches and is internationally noted for its wildlife. The AONB, a narrow coastal strip, stretches from Berwick-upon-Tweed to Amble.
Quantock Hills AONB
A narrow, gently curving 19-km ridge, the Quantock Hills run north west from the Vale of Taunton Deane to the Bristol Channel coast. Standing out above the agricultural plain, the ridge looks very imposing despite its actual height only being 245 to 275m.
Isles of Scilly AONB
This scattering of tiny granite islands 45 km off Land's End is the smallest of all the AONBs. In terms of the variety, environmental quality and beauty of its marine landscape, the AONB is outstanding.
Shropshire Hills AONB
The steep-sided rift valley of Church Stretton lies at the centre of the AONB and from its fertile farmed floor looms the great pre-Cambrian moorland ridge of the Long Mynd.
Solway Coast AONB
With varied habitats and rich feeding grounds, the estuary is of outstanding wildlife importance. An overwintering ground for huge numbers of wildfowl, the Upper Solway's flats and marshes are a Ramsar site and seals, dolphins and porpoises have been sighted offshore.
South Devon AONB
The entire AONB coast is county-designated as a coastal preservation area and contains many Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) (www.english-nature.org.uk/special/sssi/). The peninsula provides a haven for a wide range of birds and the reed beds and freshwater lakes of Slapton Ley are a notable habitat.
Suffolk Coast and Heaths AONB
The low-lying coastal hinterland contains some of England's few remaining areas of ancient open heathland, including the Sandlings whose wild sandy stretches are a vanishing refuge of the nightjar, woodlark, and rare heath butterflies.
Surrey Hills AONB
Stretching from Farnham in the west to Oxted in the east, the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty encompasses a rich and diverse landscape.
Sussex Downs AONB
The AONB encompasses the full rolling sweep of chalk downland in East and West Sussex, plus an extensive area of the Weald to the north-west.
Tamar Valley AONB
Rising on the borders of Cornwall and Devon, the rivers Tamar, Tavy and Lynher form one of the last unspoilt drowned valley river systems in England.
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