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    NEW BEAUTY FOR ENGLAND

    Sep 23, 2021 4 minutes

    This summer, Natural England made an exciting announcement, proposing two brand-new Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONBs) in the Yorkshire Wolds and Cheshire Sandstone Ridge, along with extensions to the existing Chilterns and Surrey Hills AONBs. In the world of conservation and tourism this is big news, not least because the last AONB to be notified was way back in 1995 – the Tamar Valley.

    WHAT ARE AONBs?

    The legislation to protect our most precious landscapes was created in 1949, enshrined in the . Alongside the national parks, AONBs were established to conserve the natural beauty and cultural heritage of our

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