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Northumberland National Park
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The
Northumberland National Park is a treasure which stretches for over 60 miles
from the Cheviots on the border with Scotland to Hadrian's Wall in the Tyne
Valley. It encompasses wooded valleys and open moorland in the country. Everyone
who follows the Country Code is welcome to enjoy the Park. There are three main
valleys in the Cheviots Harthope Valley, the Breamish Valley and Coquetdale.
Northumberland
National Park covers an area of 400 square miles of unspoilt countryside. At
its edge is Kielder Water, the largest man-made lake in Europe within the
largest man made forest in Europe is spectacular bird watching, sailing and
outdoor activities.
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Pennine Way enters
the park in the Tyne Valley with a stretch along Hadrian's Roman Wall before
turning north to Kielder Forest and the moors before rising over Cheviot to Kirk
Yeyholm
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Lake District National Park
The first notions of a National Park was nurtured
here in Cumbria in 1810 by William Wordsworth famous for his poems wrote a
travel guide to the area in which he lived. It was over a 150 years before
Britain's largest National Park was established, his words attracted
artist's such as Turner, Constable and Gainsborough who put the beauty of
this perspective on canvas followed by the sketches of Alfred Wainwright who
the entire North Country area.
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Yorkshire Dales
National Park
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The limestone hills and Dales of Yorkshire's wool
country covers the moorland dales and the higher Pennine Hills which has
caves for the tourist or amateur caver to the west, with the classic one day
Three Peaks Walk covers 26 miles is also in the region. History is found in
the place names in the dales with Norse names such as
gill
or
beck
for stream plus
fell
and
foss
for hill and waterfall to
mention a few with Anglian, Celtic and Danish name present across the
region.
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North York Moors
National Park
The pink heather covered North York Moors
are encompassed by the Cleveland Hills to the west and Whitby on the craggy
coastline to the east. Nestled in the centre is the North Yorkshire Moors
Railway, known as Harry Potter's Hogwart Express which passes through Goathland
which is the backdrop for the Heartbeat drama series set in the sixties. It is
also encompassed by the Cleveland Way a long distance walk which run north up
the Cleveland Hills to Saltburn then South following the coast through Scarborough
to Filey,
their is also the Lyke Wake Walk a 40 mile test of endurance across peat
moorland to be completed in 24 hours.
Peak District National Park
The Peak District was the first of the
eleven areas of the British Isles to be designated a National Park in 1951, an
area nestled between the heavy industrial cities of the Midlands which feed of
the mineral resources of the hills.
Being the southern end of the Pennines a
chain of hills which form the back bone of Britain running north to the Cheviot
Border hills some 250 miles north. The Pennine Way a long distance footpath
starts in Edale and winds its way through some of the most beautiful and
desolate countryside.
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