National Parks & National Landscapes

Britain's biggest national park — a high granite plateau of arctic tundra, ancient Caledonian pinewood and free-flowing rivers.

4,528 km² · Highland

Wales at its wildest — Yr Wyddfa and the highest ridges south of Scotland, above slate valleys and glacial lakes.

2,140 km² · Gwynedd

England's highest mountains and deepest lakes — the fells that invented British hillwalking.

2,362 km² · Cumbria

Scotland's first national park, where the Highlands begin — bonnie banks, wooded glens and Ben Lomond within reach of Glasgow.

1,863 km² · Stirling

Limestone country of dry-stone walls, field barns, waterfalls and the Three Peaks.

2,185 km² · North Yorkshire

Flat-topped sandstone summits, waterfall gorges and dark skies along the roof of south Wales.

1,350 km² · Powys

Granite tors, wild ponies and England's largest expanse of open moorland in the south.

956 km² · Devon

High moor meeting a dramatic coast, with red deer and some of England's darkest skies.

693 km² · Somerset

The largest heather moorland in England, purple in late summer, edged by a fine coast.

1,441 km² · North Yorkshire

England's emptiest national park — big skies, Hadrian's Wall and gold-tier dark skies.

1,051 km² · Northumberland

Britain's first national park: gritstone edges in the Dark Peak, limestone dales in the White.

1,438 km² · Derbyshire

Britain's only truly coastal national park — sea cliffs, beaches and seabird islands around Wales's western tip.

615 km² · Pembrokeshire

A chalk ridge rolling from Winchester to the sea cliffs at Beachy Head.

1,653 km² · West Sussex

Scotland's most dramatic glen.

926 km² · Highland

Wild heather moorland and the Trough of Bowland.

806 km² · Lancashire

Britain's high sub-Arctic plateau.

655 km² · Highland

Ancient wood pasture and heathland where commoners' ponies still roam free.

567 km² · Hampshire

Britain's largest protected wetland — a watery maze of rivers, fens and windmills.

302 km² · Norfolk

Britain's most serrated mountain range.

273 km² · Highland

Wooded lochs and craggy hills.

49 km² · Stirling

Ancient pinewood glen, Scotland's most beautiful.

244 km² · Highland

Honey-coloured limestone villages scattered across rolling sheep country, and paths enough to link them all up

2,041 km² · Gloucestershire

England's high, quiet backbone of moorland tops, waterfalls and old lead-mining dales, designated in 1988

1,985 km² · County Durham

Rolling chalk downland above the Vale of the White Horse, threaded by one of Britain's oldest roads

1,731 km² · Wiltshire

Island mountains, machair and Atlantic beaches across the Outer Hebrides, with the tallest hill in the island chain at its heart

2,021 km² · Na h-Eileanan Siar

Strange, isolated peaks rising from a watery moorland wilderness in the far north-west

1,298 km² · Highland

Beech woods and chalk downland within easy reach of London, laced with old ridge paths and grazing red kites

838 km² · Buckinghamshire

The best of Cornwall's coast and moor, gathered into a dozen protected stretches around the county

964 km² · Cornwall

Chalk ridges, quiet combes and one of the finest coastlines in England, from Lyme Bay to Purbeck

1,129 km² · Dorset

Wooded ridges, sunken lanes and deep stream valleys across the old iron country of the south-east

1,462 km² · East Sussex

Chalk hills, ancient woods and orchards, ending in the white cliffs above the Channel

879 km² · Kent

A quiet Yorkshire dale of reservoirs, gritstone rocks and wooded gorges, next door to the Dales but with room to breathe

601 km² · North Yorkshire

Heather ridges and rocky tops rising over the Welsh border, from the Long Mynd's plateau to the Wrekin's landmark cone

808 km² · Shropshire

Some of Scotland's wildest mountain country — sandstone giants, remote lochs and a coast of sea and sand

1,635 km² · Highland

Little limestone hills, flowery woods and the huge tidal sands of Morecambe Bay, all packed into a small friendly corner

76 km² · Lancashire

Heathland and forest, an accessible AONB.

69 km² · Staffordshire

A big tidal harbour of creeks and mudflats on the Sussex and Hampshire coast, full of boats and birds, with a sandy spit at the mouth

73 km² · West Sussex

Constable's own valley of slow river, water meadows and old mills on the Suffolk and Essex border, made for a gentle day

91 km² · Suffolk

High granite mountains and old pine woods above the River Dee — big, serious hill country

398 km² · Aberdeenshire

Red Triassic cliffs, pebble heaths and the western start of the Jurassic Coast, with easy coast-path walking

269 km² · Devon

The three green Eildon Hills over Melrose, with Border abbeys below and long paths through the Tweed country

39 km² · Scottish Borders

Britain's first AONB — limestone headlands, vast beaches and salt marsh on Swansea's wild peninsula.

187 km² · Swansea

Gentle farmed hills and old estates between the Vale of York and the moors, easy walking and a great house

204 km² · North Yorkshire

A wide tidal sea loch on Scotland's far north coast, with two big lonely hills rising behind it

245 km² · Highland

Gentle chalk and clay hills rolling through quiet Lincolnshire farmland, with the Viking Way threading their length

559 km² · Lincolnshire

A remote finger of Wales pointing at Bardsey Island — small coves, pilgrim paths and Welsh-speaking farmland.

160 km² · Gwynedd

The biggest loch in Britain by area, half Highland and half Lowland, with an easy first hill above Balmaha

281 km² · Argyll and Bute

A long remote loch running down from Glenfinnan into wild country, with steep quiet hills rising straight from the water

130 km² · Highland