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What's Special About the North Pennines? A companion to the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Management Plan 2009-14 What’s Special about the North Pennines? NORTHUMBERLAND NATIONAL PARK Haydon Corbridge Haltwhistle A69 Bridge Bardon MIll 9 9 A6 A6 HEXHAM e P yn BRAMPTON W Allen R. T Banks Hallbankgate The Garden Lambley Station Talkin Tarn Viaduct B Highland Country Park 6 Slaley 3 Halton-lea-Gate Whiteld 0 Cattle Centre 6 A Talkin 6 8 t en Cold Fell w Castle Carrock South Whiteld Allendale er . D Tyne Moor R Valley Derwent Geltsdale RSPB East Allen Resr Shotley Beamish Museum Reserve R Valley . A686 Hexhamshire (12 miles) S Bridge R o Ninebanks R . Slaggyford . Common E u R E d t . h W a A CONSETT e s Cumrew B Pow n 6 T e t 8 y s 6 Blanchland 9 n t 2 Hill 9 Edmundbyers e West Allen A B 5 A l Country 6 Valley l Derwent e 4 l 1 l n Park 3 e Valley n Castleside Lanchester Alston 2C Armathwaite Croglin South C Tynedale Allenheads C Railway 2 C & The Hub Killhope A 6 8 6 A689 Museum Rookhope Stanhope 2C 68 C A Nenthead Common Waskerley Resr. Garrigill Nenthead Durham Thortergill Mines Dales Tunstall M Forge Cowshill Resr. 6 Kirkoswald Hartside Centre Lazonby W St John’s Stanhope P Chapel Eastgate Melmerby Fell Tow law Ireshopeburn Frosterley Wolsingham B Melmerby Weardale Westgate 6 4 Museum 1 2 W e a r d a l e Harehope Crook R Quarry Weardale R . T . ees Railway W Sea to Sea Cycle Route (C2C) Cross Fell B e 6 2 a Langwathby 7 r Great Dun Fell 7 Bollihope Common Cow Green B PENRITH 6 Reservoir 2 7 Blencarn 8 Langdon Beck Moor House - A66 Upper Teesdale Bowlees Visitor Centre Hamsterley Forest NNR Newbiggin PW High Force Chapel Rheged Cauldron Low Force Snout Te Middleton-in-Teesdale Woodland BISHOP Dufton e West s d a Auckland AUCKLAND High Cup Nick l e Ark on the Edge A 68 276 Romaldkirk Hilton B6 Grassholme Raby Castle Appleby-in- Resr. Selset 8 68 Staindrop Westmorland Resr. Cotherstone A Hury Stainmore Resr. 7 Common Blackton A6 Balderhead Resr. Resr. s Brough 67 BARNARD e A e Bowes T CASTLE . Museum R A66 Bowes a A6 R. Gret 6 Kirkby PW Stephen Nine Standards Rigg 5 YORKSHIRE DALES 68 A NATIONAL PARK 2 Contents Alston Moor © Natural England/Charlie Hedley The North Pennines AONB Introduction to the North Pennines . 4 The designation of the North Pennines AONB was confirmed in 1988 and at 1983km 2, it is the second largest of the 40 AONBs in England and Wales. One of the most remote and unspoilt places in England, it lies between the National Parks of the Lake District, the Yorkshire Dales and Geology and landscape . 6 Northumberland with the urban centres of County Durham away to the east. The AONB crosses the boundaries of two English Regions, being in both the North East and the North West. It lies mostly within the political boundaries of Durham, Northumberland and Cumbria County Landscape character . 10 Councils, and the districts of Eden and Carlisle, with 2.6km 2 in North Yorkshire around Tan Hill. A UNESCO European and Global Geopark Special grasslands . 15 In 2003 the North Pennines AONB became Britain’s first European Geopark and in 2004 the area became a founding member of the UNESCO Global Geoparks Network. Managed by the AONB Partnership Staff Unit, the UNESCO Geopark status indicates that the North Pennines not Moorlands . 18 only has outstanding geological heritage, but is also at the forefront of places where geology is being used to support sustainable development through nature tourism, education and conservation. Outside Europe, a new Asia-Pacific Geoparks Network has arisen, alongside fledgling Trees and woodlands . 20 UNESCO Geoparks Networks in Africa and South America. Work in support of the Geopark status includes children’s geology clubs, interpretation and trails, geology festivals, evening classes, educational materials and more. Rivers . 22 Introduction to this publication This short publication, a companion to the AONB Management Plan, highlights the special qualities of the North Pennines, the things that make it Historic environment . 24 different from other places, the things which everyone who cares about this place has a duty to conserve and, where we can, make even better. Community and culture . 28 If you are reading this publication as part of the AONB Management Plan 2009-2014, there are two further documents which form the whole plan: Areas of Outstanding Part B – North Pennines AONB Management Plan 2009-2014 – Strategy Natural Beauty . 31 Part C – North Pennines AONB Management Plan 2009-2014 – Action Plan In these pages you will see something of how special are our landscapes, wildlife, wild places and historic environment; you’ll also be able to find out a little more about how these special qualities of the North Pennines can be looked after and the kinds of services which high quality landscapes like ours provide for society. 3 Introduction to the North Pennines mpbell © Laurie Ca Black grouse “This country, though politically distributed among three counties, is and modern visual intrusions; it has been recognised by CPRE as one and the same in all its characteristic features. From it flow the one of England’s most tranquil places.There are few places in Tyne, the Wear and the Tees and many branches which fall into England where you can walk all day without crossing a road, but these rivers. Along the banks of these and several other smaller it is still possible here. In spring and summer, high heather moors streams which fall into them are dales or valleys, cultivated near the and blanket bogs are alive with the evocative calls of wading banks and for a short distance up the sides of the hills, but soon birds, black grouse dance on their leks and merlin and peregrine cultivation and enclosure cease, and beyond them the dark fells, falcon race through the air. covered with peat and moss and heath; and between one vale and another is a wide extent of high moorland, extending sometimes for People and place a dozen miles. In these upland tracts are no inhabited homes but The rise and fall of the lead and other mineral mining industries thousands of blackfaced sheep are scattered over them; and there has shaped much of today’s landscape, not only in the physical breed the grouse which attract the sportsmen at the proper season remains that can be seen, but also in the pattern of local of the year to this country.” settlements. Weardale, Teesdale, and the South Tyne, Nent and Allen Valleys in particular, are some of the best places to see the (Royal Commission into Children’s Employment in the remains of the lead mining industry and to see the ‘miner-farmer Mines. W.R. Mitchell, 1842) landscapes’ which grew out of it. In 1861, 27,000 people lived in This description of the North Pennines from 1842 might equally the North Pennines orefield, but today the population is have been written today, but it would be misleading to consider estimated to be around 12,000 people, less than half of what it the North Pennines landscape as timeless and unchanging. was during the lead mining heyday. From prehistoric times (when the clearance of the natural The majority of the AONB population lives in the North Pennine North Pennines forest began) to today, when pressures ranging dales, where settlements include small towns such as Alston from changes in agricultural policy to reservoir building and wind and Allendale, together with relatively compact villages, farm development have affected the landscape, change has been isolated hamlets and a wide scatter of individual farmhouses. continuous. Today one of the main challenges for those who love and care for the North Pennines is making sure that the This landscape became enclosed by the miner-farmers from the pace of change, and the nature of that change, don’t damage 16th century, but beneath the surface of today’s pattern of the essential character of the area as, in the eyes of many, the fields, villages and moorland there is evidence for settlement last wild place in England. and landscape change over the past 10,000 years. People have continually contributed to the development of the landscape Remote, wild and tranquil through Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman, Anglo-Saxon, Much of the North Pennines is truly remote, wild countryside Viking, medieval and post-medieval times, and continue to do and it is precisely this sense of wildness and remoteness which so today. gives much of the area its character. There are still truly dark skies here, and a relative freedom in places from human noise 4 Lunedale in June © Natural England/Charlie Hedley This chimney near Allendale provides a reminder of the Blanchland © NPAP/Shane Harris Dry stone walls near Milburn © Natural England/Charlie Hedley High Force from the Pennine Way National Trail © Shane Harris lead mining history of the North Pennines © NPAP Landscape pattern Land and livelihood In the dales, dry stone walls impose strong pattern on the landscape, where buildings on the valley Farming and forestry play an important role in the lives of local communities and in managing the sides are picked out by clumps of trees. Buildings and settlements are an integral part of the landscape, landscape. Careful management of our moors for shooting and our rivers for fishing benefits wildlife and with most being built of local stone, reflecting the underlying geology, complementing the stone field supports the livelihood of local people.
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