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National Character Area

Index National Character Area

A National Character Area (NCA) is a natural subdivision of England based on a combination of landscape, biodiversity, geodiversity and economic activity. [1]

135 relations: Amounderness Hundred, Arden, Warwickshire, Bedfordshire Greensand Ridge, Berkshire Downs, Black Mountains, Wales, Blackdown Hills, Blackmore Vale and Vale of Wardour, Bodmin Moor, Breckland, Bristol, Cannock Chase, Carnmenellis, Charnwood Forest, Cheshire Plain, Cheviot Hills, Chiltern Hills, Cleveland Hills, Clun, Cornish Killas, Cotswolds, Cranborne Chase, Culm Measures, Cumbria, Dark Peak, Dartmoor, Devon Redlands, Dorset Downs, Dorset Heaths, Durham Coalfield, European Landscape Convention, Exmoor, Forest of Bowland, Forest of Dean, Golden Valley (Herefordshire), Greater Manchester, Greensand Ridge, Hadrian's Wall, Hampshire Downs, Hensbarrow, Herefordshire, Holderness, Howardian Hills, Howgill Fells, Humber, Humberhead Levels, Inner London, Isle of Portland, Isle of Wight, Isles of Scilly, Lancashire, ..., Lancashire Coalfield, Leicestershire and South Derbyshire Coalfield, Lincolnshire coast, Lincolnshire Marsh, Lincolnshire Wolds, Lundy, Malvern Hills, Marshwood and Powerstock Vales, Mendip Hills, Merseyside, Mid Cheshire Ridge, Mid Norfolk (UK Parliament constituency), Mid Severn Sandstone Plateau, Mid Somerset Hills, Midvale Ridge, Morecambe, Morecambe Bay Pavements, Natural England, Nature Improvement Area, Needwood Forest, New Forest, North Downs, North Norfolk Coast Site of Special Scientific Interest, North Northumberland Coastal Plain, North Pennines, North Wessex Downs, North West Norfolk (UK Parliament constituency), North York Moors, Northumberland Sandstone Hills, Oswestry Uplands, Pendle Hill, Pennines, Penwith, Pevensey Levels, Quantock Hills, River Avon, Bristol, River Churnet, River Eden, Cumbria, River Lune, River Mease, River Mersey, River Sence, River Severn, River Teme, River Trent, River Tyne, River Wye, Rockingham Forest, Romney Marsh, Salisbury Plain, Sefton Coast, Sherwood Forest, Shropshire, Shropshire Hills, Solway Plain, Somerset Levels, South Coast Plain, South Devon, South Downs, South Hampshire Lowlands, South Herefordshire and Over Severn, South Pennines, South Purbeck, Staffordshire Potteries, Suffolk Coast and Heaths, Thames Basin Heaths, Thames Estuary, Thames Valley, The Broads, The Fens, The Lizard, Tyne and Wear, Vale of Belvoir, Vale of Mowbray, Vale of Pickering, Vale of Taunton and Quantock Fringes, Vale of York, Weald, West Wiltshire Downs, Weymouth Lowlands, White Peak, Wirral Peninsula, Yeovil Scarplands, Yorkshire Dales, Yorkshire Wolds. Expand index (85 more) »

Amounderness Hundred

The Amounderness Hundred is one of the six subdivisions of the historic county of Lancashire in North West England, but the name is older than the system of hundreds first recorded in the 13th century and might best be described as the name of a Norse wapentake.

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Arden, Warwickshire

Arden is an area, located mainly in Warwickshire, England, and also part of Staffordshire and Worcestershire traditionally regarded as extending from the River Avon to the River Tame.

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Bedfordshire Greensand Ridge

Bedfordshire Greensand Ridge is an escarpment which runs through Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, and Cambridgeshire in the south and east of England.

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Berkshire Downs

The Berkshire Downs are a range of chalk downland hills in southern England, part of the North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

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Black Mountains, Wales

The Black Mountains (Y Mynyddoedd Duon) are a group of hills spread across parts of Powys and Monmouthshire in southeast Wales, and extending across the England–Wales border into Herefordshire.

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Blackdown Hills

The Blackdown Hills are a range of hills along the Somerset-Devon border in south-western England, which were designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) in 1991.

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Blackmore Vale and Vale of Wardour

The Blackmoor Vale and Vale of Wardour area is a natural region in the counties of Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire in southern England.

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Bodmin Moor

Bodmin Moor (Goon Brenn) is a granite moorland in northeastern Cornwall, England.

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Breckland

Breckland in Norfolk and Suffolk is a 39,433 hectare Special Protection Area (SPA) under the European Union Directive on the Conservation of Wild Birds.

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Bristol

Bristol is a city and county in South West England with a population of 456,000.

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Cannock Chase

Cannock Chase is a mixed area of countryside in the county of Staffordshire, England.

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Carnmenellis

Carnmenellis Hill (or just Carnmenellis) gives its name to the area of west Cornwall in England, between Redruth, Helston and Penryn.

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Charnwood Forest

Charnwood Forest is an upland tract in north-western Leicestershire, England, bounded by Leicester, Loughborough and Coalville.

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Cheshire Plain

The Cheshire Plain is a relatively flat expanse of lowland almost entirely within the county of Cheshire in North West England.

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Cheviot Hills

The Cheviot Hills (/'tʃiːvɪət/) are a range of rolling hills straddling the Anglo-Scottish border between Northumberland and the Scottish Borders.

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Chiltern Hills

The Chiltern Hills form a chalk escarpment in South East England.

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Cleveland Hills

The Cleveland Hills are a range of hills on the north-west edge of the North York Moors in North Yorkshire, England, overlooking Cleveland and Teesside.

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Clun

Clun (italic) is a small town in south Shropshire, England, and the Shropshire Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

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Cornish Killas

The Cornish Killas is a natural region covering most of the county of Cornwall in southwest England.

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Cotswolds

The Cotswolds is an area in south central England containing the Cotswold Hills, a range of rolling hills which rise from the meadows of the upper Thames to an escarpment, known as the Cotswold Edge, above the Severn Valley and Evesham Vale.

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Cranborne Chase

Cranborne Chase is a chalk plateau in central southern England, straddling the counties Dorset, Hampshire and Wiltshire.

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Culm Measures

The Culm Measures are a thick sequence of geological strata originating during the Carboniferous Period that occur in south-west England, principally in Devon and Cornwall, now known as the Culm Supergroup.

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Cumbria

Cumbria is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in North West England.

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Dark Peak

The Dark Peak is the higher, wilder northern part of the Peak District in England, mainly in Derbyshire and South Yorkshire.

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Dartmoor

Dartmoor is a moor in southern Devon, England.

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Devon Redlands

The Devon Redlands is a rich, agricultural, natural region in southwest Britain that has been designated as National Character Area (NCA) 148 by Natural England.

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Dorset Downs

The Dorset Downs are an area of chalk downland in the centre of the county Dorset in south west England.

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Dorset Heaths

The Dorset Heaths form an important area of heathland within the Poole Basin in southern England.

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Durham Coalfield

The Durham Coalfield is a coalfield in north-east England.

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European Landscape Convention

The European Landscape Convention, also known as the Florence Convention, is the first international treaty to be exclusively devoted to all aspects of European landscape.

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Exmoor

Exmoor is loosely defined as an area of hilly open moorland in west Somerset and north Devon in South West England.

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Forest of Bowland

The Forest of Bowland, also known as the Bowland Fells, is an area of barren gritstone fells, deep valleys and peat moorland, mostly in north-east Lancashire, England with a small part in North Yorkshire (before 1974, some of the area was in the West Riding of Yorkshire).

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Forest of Dean

The Forest of Dean is a geographical, historical and cultural region in the western part of the county of Gloucestershire, England.

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Golden Valley (Herefordshire)

The Golden Valley is the name given to the valley of the River Dore in western Herefordshire, England.

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Greater Manchester

Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 2,782,100.

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Greensand Ridge

The Greensand Ridge is an extensive, prominent, often wooded, mixed greensand/sandstone escarpment in south-east England.

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Hadrian's Wall

Hadrian's Wall (Vallum Aelium), also called the Roman Wall, Picts' Wall, or Vallum Hadriani in Latin, was a defensive fortification in the Roman province of Britannia, begun in AD 122 in the reign of the emperor Hadrian.

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Hampshire Downs

The Hampshire Downs form a large area of downland in central, southern England, mainly in the county of Hampshire.

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Hensbarrow

Hensbarrow is a natural region in the county of Cornwall, England, UK, that has been recognized as National Character Area 154 by Natural England.

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Herefordshire

Herefordshire is a county in the West Midlands of England, governed by Herefordshire Council.

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Holderness

Holderness is an area of the East Riding of Yorkshire, on the east coast of England.

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Howardian Hills

The Howardian Hills are an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty located between the Yorkshire Wolds, the North York Moors National Park and the Vale of York, they take their name from the Howard family who still own local lands.

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Howgill Fells

The Howgill Fells are hills in Northern England between the Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales, lying roughly in between the vertices of a triangle made by the towns of Sedbergh, Kirkby Stephen and Tebay.

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Humber

The Humber is a large tidal estuary on the east coast of Northern England.

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Humberhead Levels

The Humberhead Levels is a national character area covering a large expanse of flat, low-lying land towards the western end of the Humber estuary in northern England.

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Inner London

Inner London is the name for the group of London boroughs which form the interior part of Greater London and are surrounded by Outer London.

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Isle of Portland

The Isle of Portland is a limestone tied island, long by wide, in the English Channel.

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Isle of Wight

The Isle of Wight (also referred to informally as The Island or abbreviated to IOW) is a county and the largest and second-most populous island in England.

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Isles of Scilly

The Isles of Scilly (Syllan or Enesek Syllan) is an archipelago off the southwestern tip of Cornwall.

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Lancashire

Lancashire (abbreviated Lancs.) is a county in north west England.

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Lancashire Coalfield

The Lancashire Coalfield in North West England was one of the most important British coalfields.

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Leicestershire and South Derbyshire Coalfield

The Leicestershire and South Derbyshire Coalfield in the English Midlands is one of the smaller British coalfields.

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Lincolnshire coast

The coast of Lincolnshire runs for more than down the North Sea coast of eastern England, from the estuary of the Humber (which divides it from East Yorkshire) to the marshlands of the Wash, where it meets Norfolk.

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Lincolnshire Marsh

The Lincolnshire Marsh is a belt of reclaimed salt marsh and sand dune in Lincolnshire, England and between the Lincolnshire Wolds and the North Sea coast.

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Lincolnshire Wolds

The Lincolnshire Wolds is a range of hills in the county of Lincolnshire, England.

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Lundy

Lundy is the largest island in the Bristol Channel.

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Malvern Hills

The Malvern Hills are a range of hills in the English counties of Worcestershire, Herefordshire and a small area of northern Gloucestershire, dominating the surrounding countryside and the towns and villages of the district of Malvern.

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Marshwood and Powerstock Vales

The Marshwood and Powerstock Vales form a natural region in southwest England reaching to the Dorset coastline.

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Mendip Hills

The Mendip Hills (commonly called the Mendips) is a range of limestone hills to the south of Bristol and Bath in Somerset, England.

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Merseyside

Merseyside is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 1.38 million.

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Mid Cheshire Ridge

The Mid Cheshire Ridge is a range of low sandstone hills which stretch north to south through Cheshire in North West England.

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Mid Norfolk (UK Parliament constituency)

Mid Norfolk is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by George Freeman, a Conservative.

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Mid Severn Sandstone Plateau

The Mid Severn Sandstone Plateau is a rural landscape and one of the natural regions of central England, straddling the border between the counties of Shropshire and Staffordshire.

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Mid Somerset Hills

The Mid Somerset Hills are a major natural region in the county of Somerset in southwest west England, forming a series of low hills and ridges that divide up the Somerset Levels.

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Midvale Ridge

The Midvale Ridge is a natural region in South Central England formed by a band of low-lying limestone hills that run from southeast to northwest from the Vale of Aylesbury to Swindon.

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Morecambe

Morecambe is a town on Morecambe Bay in Lancashire, England, which had a population of 34,768 at the 2011 Census.

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Morecambe Bay Pavements

Morecambe Bay Pavements is a multi-site Special Area of Conservation comprising limestone pavements around Morecambe Bay in North-West England.

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Natural England

Natural England is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

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Nature Improvement Area

Nature Improvement Areas (NIAs) are an ongoing network of large scale initiatives in the landscape of England to improve ecological connectivity and improve biodiversity.

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Needwood Forest

Needwood Forest was a large area of ancient woodland in Staffordshire which was largely lost at the end of the 18th century.

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New Forest

The New Forest is an area of southern England which includes one of the largest remaining tracts of unenclosed pasture land, heathland and forest in the heavily populated south-east of England.

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North Downs

The North Downs are a ridge of chalk hills in south east England that stretch from Farnham in Surrey to the White Cliffs of Dover in Kent.

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North Norfolk Coast Site of Special Scientific Interest

The North Norfolk Coast Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) is an area of European importance for wildlife in Norfolk, England.

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North Northumberland Coastal Plain

The North Northumberland Coastal Plain is a major natural region that lies on England's northeasternmost stretch of coastline on the North Sea.

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North Pennines

The North Pennines is the northernmost section of the Pennine range of hills which runs north–south through northern England.

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North Wessex Downs

The North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) (also known as the Chalkenwolds) is located in the English counties of West Berkshire, Hampshire, Oxfordshire and Wiltshire.

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North West Norfolk (UK Parliament constituency)

North West Norfolk is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2001 by Sir Henry Bellingham, a Conservative.

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North York Moors

The North York Moors is a national park in North Yorkshire, England, containing one of the largest expanses of heather moorland in the United Kingdom.

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Northumberland Sandstone Hills

The Northumberland Sandstone Hills are a major natural region that lies entirely within the English county of Northumberland.

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Oswestry Uplands

The Oswestry Uplands are a small natural region in the English county of Shropshire on the border with Wales.

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Pendle Hill

Pendle Hill is in the east of Lancashire, England, near the towns of Burnley, Nelson, Colne, Clitheroe and Padiham.

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Pennines

The Pennines, also known as the Pennine Chain or Pennine Hills, are a range of mountains and hills in England separating North West England from Yorkshire and North East England.

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Penwith

Penwith (Pennwydh) is an area of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, located on the peninsula of the same name.

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Pevensey Levels

The area known as the Pevensey Levels is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) notified under Section 28 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.

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Quantock Hills

The Quantock Hills is a range of hills west of Bridgwater in Somerset, England.

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River Avon, Bristol

The River Avon is an English river in the south west of the country.

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River Churnet

The River Churnet is a river in Staffordshire, England.

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River Eden, Cumbria

The River Eden is a river that flows through the Eden District of Cumbria, England, on its way to the Solway Firth.

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River Lune

The River Lune (archaically sometimes Loyne) is a river in length in Cumbria and Lancashire, England.

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River Mease

The River Mease is a lowland clay river in the Midlands area of England.

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River Mersey

The River Mersey is a river in the North West of England.

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River Sence

The River Sence is a river which flows in Leicestershire, England.

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River Severn

The River Severn (Afon Hafren, Sabrina) is a river in the United Kingdom.

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River Teme

The River Teme (pronounced; Afon Tefeidiad) rises in Mid Wales, south of Newtown, and flows through Knighton where it crosses the border into England down to Ludlow in Shropshire, then to the north of Tenbury Wells on the Shropshire/Worcestershire border there, on its way to join the River Severn south of Worcester.

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River Trent

The River Trent is the third-longest river in the United Kingdom.

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River Tyne

The River Tyne is a river in North East England and its length (excluding tributaries) is.

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River Wye

The River Wye (Afon Gwy) is the fifth-longest river in the UK, stretching some from its source on Plynlimon in mid Wales to the Severn estuary.

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Rockingham Forest

Rockingham Forest is a former royal hunting forest in the county of Northamptonshire, England.

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Romney Marsh

Romney Marsh is a sparsely populated wetland area in the counties of Kent and East Sussex in the south-east of England.

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Salisbury Plain

Salisbury Plain is a chalk plateau in the south western part of central southern England covering.

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Sefton Coast

Sefton Coast is a 4605.3 hectare (11379.9 acre) Site of special scientific interest which stretches for 12 miles (20 km) between Southport and Waterloo, which is end location of Crosby Beach.

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Sherwood Forest

Sherwood Forest is a royal forest in Nottinghamshire, England, famous by its historic association with the legend of Robin Hood.

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Shropshire

Shropshire (alternatively Salop; abbreviated, in print only, Shrops; demonym Salopian) is a county in the West Midlands of England, bordering Wales to the west, Cheshire to the north, Staffordshire to the east, and Worcestershire and Herefordshire to the south.

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Shropshire Hills

The Shropshire Hills is an upland area and one of the natural regions of England.

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Solway Plain

The Solway Plain or Solway Basin is a coastal plain in the northwest of Cumbria, England and stretching over the Scottish border to the low-lying area around Gretna and Annan It is an area generally lying north and west of Carlisle along the Solway Firth and drained by the rivers Esk and Lyne.

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Somerset Levels

The Somerset Levels are a coastal plain and wetland area of Somerset, South West England, running south from the Mendips to the Blackdown Hills.

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South Coast Plain

The South Coast Plain is a natural region in England running along the central south coast in the counties of East and West Sussex and Hampshire.

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South Devon

South Devon is the southern part of Devon, England.

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South Downs

The South Downs are a range of chalk hills that extends for about across the south-eastern coastal counties of England from the Itchen Valley of Hampshire in the west to Beachy Head, near Eastbourne, East Sussex, in the east.

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South Hampshire Lowlands

The South Hampshire Lowlands form a natural landscape in south, central England within the county of Hampshire.

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South Herefordshire and Over Severn

South Herefordshire and Over Severn is a National Character Area that extends from the south, where it is bounded by the Forest of Dean, northwards to Ewyas Harold in southern Herefordshire and to the southern tip of the Malvern Hills.

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South Pennines

The South Pennines is a region of moorland and hill country in northern England lying towards the southern end of the Pennines.

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South Purbeck

South Purbeck is a natural region on the south coast of England.

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Staffordshire Potteries

The Staffordshire Potteries is the industrial area encompassing the six towns, Tunstall, Burslem, Hanley, Stoke, Fenton and Longton that now make up the city of Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire, England.

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Suffolk Coast and Heaths

The Suffolk Coast and Heaths AONB is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Suffolk, England.

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Thames Basin Heaths

The Thames Basin Heaths are a natural region in southern England in the counties of Berkshire, Hampshire and Surrey.

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Thames Estuary

The Thames Estuary is the estuary in which the River Thames meets the waters of the North Sea, in the south-east of Great Britain.

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Thames Valley

The Thames Valley is an informally-defined sub-region of South East England, centred on the River Thames west of London, with Oxford as a major centre.

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The Broads

The Broads National Park is a network of mostly navigable rivers and lakes in the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk.

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The Fens

The Fens, also known as the, are a coastal plain in eastern England.

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The Lizard

The Lizard (An Lysardh) is a peninsula in southern Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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Tyne and Wear

Tyne and Wear is a metropolitan county in the North East region of England around the mouths of the rivers Tyne and Wear.

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Vale of Belvoir

The Vale of Belvoir is an area of natural beauty on the borders of Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire in England.

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Vale of Mowbray

The Vale of Mowbray (sometimes mistakenly referred to as the Vale of York) is a stretch of low-lying land between the North York Moors and the Hambleton Hills to the east and the Yorkshire Dales to the west.

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Vale of Pickering

The Vale of Pickering is a low-lying flat area of land in North Yorkshire, England.

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Vale of Taunton and Quantock Fringes

The Vale of Taunton and Quantock Fringes form a natural region in the southwest of England in the county of Somerset.

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Vale of York

The Vale of York is an area of flat land in the northeast of England.

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Weald

The Weald is an area of South East England between the parallel chalk escarpments of the North and the South Downs.

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West Wiltshire Downs

The West Wiltshire Downs is an area of downland in the west of the county of Wiltshire, England.

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Weymouth Lowlands

The Weymouth Lowlands form a natural region on the south coast of England in the county of Dorset.

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White Peak

The White Peak is the lower, southern part of the Peak District in England.

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Wirral Peninsula

Wirral, also known as The Wirral, is a peninsula in northwest England.

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Yeovil Scarplands

The Yeovil Scarplands are a natural region in southern England in the counties of Somerset and Dorset.

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Yorkshire Dales

The Yorkshire Dales is an upland area of the Pennines in Northern England in the historic county of Yorkshire, most of it in the Yorkshire Dales National Park created in 1954.

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Yorkshire Wolds

The Yorkshire Wolds are low hills in the counties of East Riding of Yorkshire and North Yorkshire in north-eastern England.

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List of National Character Areas, National Character Areas, National character area.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Character_Area

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