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National Parks

UK National Parks are listed below. Visitors are generally free to roam them, but should always bear in mind that people live and work in them and that animals graze in them. The National Parks are protected areas of outstanding natural beauty, a mixture of coastal, mountain, moorland, meadow, wetland and woods. They cover an area of 21,932 square km. The first National Parks were designated in 1951 and the most recent, The New Forest, in 2005. Each area is looked after by The National Parks Authority who are responsible for their conservation, must seek to nurture their social and economic well-being and promote their qualities to the general public.

• Brecon Beacons - Wales - North of Merthyr Tydfil. South of Llandovery. West of Brecon. East of Llandeilo
• Broads - East Anglia - On the east Coast, roughly stretching from Newport and running south to Lowestoft. East of Norwich
• Cairngorms - Scotland - The Largest National Park, roughly 40 km to the west and southwest of Aberdeen
• Dartmoor - Devon - West of Exeter. East of Bovey Tracey. North of Ivybridge. South of Oakhampton
• Exmoor - Somerset and Devon - Roughly, south of the coast from Berrynarbor, east to Minehead. North of Exbridge, Charles. West of the B3224 to the junction with the B3188. East from Kentisbury, Charles
• Lake District - Cumbria - Northwest England to the west of the A6
• Loch Lomond - Scotland - Roughly north of Glasgow. South of Tyndrum. West of Callander. East of Benmore Forest
• New Forest - Hampshire - Southern England west of Southampton. East of Ringwood. South of Morgans Vale(8 km south of Salisbury). North of Lymington
• Northumberland - Northeast England - East of the border with Scotland. North of Greenhead. West of Rothbury. South of Downham
• North York Moors - Yorkshire - On the coast, roughly west of Scarborough and Whitby, east of Thirsk and Ingleby Arncliffe
• Peak District - Derbyshire - West of Sheffield. North of Ashbourne. East of Macclesfield. South of Huddersfield
• Pembrokeshire Coast - On the snout of Wales
• Snowdonia - Northwest Wales Roughly north of Aberdovey. East of the A487. South of Conwy. West of Bala
• South Downs(still to be officially designated) - Sussex - Roughly west of Eastbourne. East of Winchester. North of Brighton, Chichester. South of Haslemere, Pulborough, Burgess Hill, Lewes
• Yorkshire Dales - North Yorkshire - Roughly north of Skipton. West of Ripon. East of Kendal. South of Barnard Castle