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Britain's breathing spaces

In recent years dedicated National Park staff, working in strong partnerships with other bodies and local Special landscapes shaped by people communities, have secured millions of pounds worth of external funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund and charitable trusts. This funding supports vital work Tretower Castle, Brecon Beacons National Park to conserve and enhance our historic environment, whilst providing educational, health and recreational Harbottle Castle, Northumberland National Park opportunities and helping local economies to thrive and grow. PARK IMAGES Northumberland COVER MONTAGE IMAGES Harbottle Castle National Park Authorities also have a strong record of National Parks are incredibly special places. Their Brecon Beacons Rievaulx Abbey © Northumberland National Park heritage is a national asset recognised the world over. © Tretower Castle, Hepburn © Mike Kipling, North Yoor Moors providing high-quality training and delivering Authority, Woodhouses Bastle Understanding, conserving and communicating the Photography National Park Authority apprenticeships, and have been involved in the © K Paisley stories of these cultural landscapes is integral to design and development of several Trailblazer Broads Ecton Mines protecting them, allowing us to realise their potential North York Moors Apprenticeships, from historic environment Complete remains of a Medieval © Peak District National Rievaulx Abbey © Chris J Parker investigation to traditional countryside management. and, by so doing, enriching the lives of all of those timber boat found on the River Park Authority Boundary stone above Robin who live in, work in or visit National Parks today and in Chet © Broads Authority the future. Hoods Bay © Mike Kipling Scheduled Monument Cairngorms Condition Survey Peak District Corgarff Castle © Cairngorms © Brecon Beacon National Park Millstones © Peak District National Park Authority Authority National Park Authority Dartmoor Community Archaeology on Pembrokeshire Coast Northern Walland, Challacombe Exmoor Carew Castle © Pembrokeshire Down © Dartmoor National Park © Exmoor National Park Authority Authority Coast National Park Authority Herringfleet Smock Mill Pentre Ifan © Pembrokeshire Exmoor Somerleyton, The Broads. Coast National Park Authority. Exe Cleave © Jason Ball, © Chris Herring Exmoor National Park Authority Snowdonia Heritage Skills Training at Stubb Harlech Castle © Snowdonia Lake District Mill Hickling B National Park Authority Eskdale Peat Hut © Lake District © Simon Finlay/Broads Authority Nation al Park Authority South Downs Stott Park, Burnmoor stone circle, Loch Lomond & The Trossachs © South Downs National Park Eskdale Sir Walter Scott paddle steamer Authority © Lake District National Park © David Mitchell, Loch Lomond Yorkshire Dales Authority & The Trossachs National Park Field Barns at Gunnerside Higher Uppacott Authority Bottoms in the Yorkshire Dales © Dartmoor National Park Authority New Forest © Robert White, Yorkshire Dales Beaulieu © New Forest National Nati onal Park Authority Park Authority

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Britain's breathing spaces Special landscapes shaped by people LOCH LOMOND & THE CAIRNGORMS NORTHUMBERLAND NORTH YORK MOORS TROSSACHS Strong deep rooted cultural From the Cheviot Hills to Hadrian’s Prehistoric archaeology, magnificent Stunning lochs and landscapes heritage where Gaelic place names Wall, Northumberland National abbey ruins, dramatic landscapes inspired many, with the romantic give meaning to the mountains, Park has a rich historic environment shaped by iron and alum literature of Sir Walter Scott in one of England’s most tranquil woodlands, lochs, rivers and production, railways and coastal encouraging Victorian tourism places. The distinctive identity and villages clinging to the cliffs, all settlements: Corgarff, for example, which left a legacy of incredible vibrant heritage of the land and its interspersed with remote derived from Coire a’Gharaidh, engineering structures, passenger people have been shaped by farmsteads and scattered moorland meaning corrie of the animal’s den. of the finest Bronze Age landscapes in Western Europe. steamers and fine buildings. centuries of conflict and innovation. villages. National Parks also protect some of the best-preserved Roman military structures, castles and hunting forests of medieval monarchs, beautiful 18th century designed landscapes, and historic mines and quarries, some of which are still in use today. Moreover, National Parks Carew Castle, Pembrokeshire Coast National Park protect a rich and distinctive vernacular architecture, with buildings, farmsteads and villages constructed he United Kingdom’s National Parks are amongst from local materials such as stone, slate, pantile and its finest and most treasured landscapes, rightly thatch that create a unique sense of place and identity. Trecognised for their tranquillity, special wildlife These physical remains form the story of England, and unique habitats. They are also cultural landscapes, Scotland and Wales and are all key factors in attracting shaped by human activity over thousands of years. inward investment and tourism. LAKE DISTRICT SNOWDONIA PEAK DISTRICT YORKSHIRE DALES These living, working landscapes have, in turn, Fifteen percent of all designated heritage assets lie The spectacular cultural From World Heritage Site to a rich The UK’s first National Park; Specialised upland farming influenced local and national identity, inspiring writers, contrasting limestone and within National Parks. This, however, represents only a landscape, inscribed as a World industrial past and home of the regimes both created the poets and artists and contributing significa ntly to the Heritage Site has stimulated poets “Snowdonia House”, Snowdonia’s gritstone landscapes reflected in fraction of the total resource as new discoveries are distinctive barns and walls nation’s rich cultural legacy. and artists including Wordsworth, historic environment makes it a distinctive building and settlement landscape of today and helped to constantly being made. The historic environment forms. A wealth of heritage assets: Ruskin and Beatrix Potter for truly distinctive part of the United preserve the physical evidence of stone circles, barrows, field The UK’s National Parks contain some of the earliest provides the excitement of discovery whilst delivering centuries and continues to inspire Kingdom. earlier, often radically different systems, lead mines, quarries, mills and most extensive evidence of human ingenuity, cultural experiences and significant volunteering the millions who visit it each year. landscapes. and country houses. endeavour and creativity, from stone tools left by opportunities for people of all ages, backgrounds and hunter-gatherers at the end of the last Ice Age to some abilities.

PEMBROKESHIRE COAST BRECON BEACONS EXMOOR DARTMOOR NEW FOREST SOUTH DOWNS BROADS

A spectacular coastal landscape, Large expanses of upland commons The Royal Forest of Exmoor dates Prehistoric hunter-gatherers and Established as a royal Norman The landscape has inspired These inland waterways were humans have shaped the character divided by fertile river valleys define back to Saxon times, from Porlock farmers, medieval miners, and hunting forest in 1079 and largely creativity to celebrate and record it formed by centuries of peat of this place for thousands of years, a stunning archaeological to Bray and Martinhoe to Dulverton. soldiers have all left their mark on an uncultivated landscape, in many ways, from JMW Turner, digging, which later flooded. A from the prehistoric tomb of Pentre landscape including well preserved Astonishingly well preserved Dartmoor. The result is a cultural thousands of archaeological sites Jane Austen, Rudyard Kipling and haven for wildlife and for landscape containing a wealth of Ifan, to the lime industry of the prehistoric sites, fine Medieval medieval villages and Victorian have been mapped since 2006, Mervyn Peake, poet Edward recreation, the area retains the evidence from ancient standing Cleddau estuary. buildings and the Blaenavon industrial engineering are among ranging from pre-history through to Thomas and composers from greatest concentration of historic the rich historic environment stones to the medieval farmsteads Industrial World Heritage Site. the Second World War. Edward Elgar to Dobrinka Tabakova. mills in the UK. waiting to be explored. of the more recent past.