National Character Areas
Displaying 159 of 159 NCAs, covering a total of 13,046,000 hectares.
ID | Name ▲ | Area (ha) | # Adjacent NCAs |
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97 | Arden | 143,400 | 7 |
117 | Avon Vales | 64,300 | 6 |
90 | Bedfordshire Greensand Ridge | 27,300 | 1 |
88 | Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire Claylands | 260,600 | 10 |
116 | Berkshire and Marlborough Downs | 111,000 | 6 |
99 | Black Mountains and Golden Valley | 26,000 | 2 |
147 | Blackdowns | 80,800 | 5 |
133 | Blackmore Vale and Vale of Wardour | 78,400 | 5 |
153 | Bodmin Moor | 28,600 | 1 |
5 | Border Moors and Forests | 127,200 | 4 |
34 | Bowland Fells | 37,400 | 1 |
33 | Bowland Fringe and Pendle Hill | 74,100 | 7 |
118 | Bristol, Avon Valleys and Ridges | 84,300 | 4 |
67 | Cannock Chase and Cank Wood | 72,800 | 5 |
155 | Carnmenellis | 14,300 | 1 |
44 | Central Lincolnshire Vale | 81,900 | 6 |
78 | Central North Norfolk | 72,000 | 5 |
73 | Charnwood | 17,500 | 4 |
62 | Cheshire Sandstone Ridge | 22,000 | 2 |
3 | Cheviot Fringe | 51,600 | 3 |
4 | Cheviots | 36,500 | 3 |
110 | Chilterns | 164,100 | 8 |
98 | Clun and North West Herefordshire Hills | 62,600 | 2 |
152 | Cornish Killas | 222,100 | 7 |
107 | Cotswolds | 288,200 | 9 |
8 | Cumbria High Fells | 199,000 | 6 |
51 | Dark Peak | 86,600 | 6 |
150 | Dartmoor | 87,400 | 3 |
50 | Derbyshire Peak Fringe and Lower Derwent | 37,800 | 6 |
148 | Devon Redlands | 97,400 | 6 |
134 | Dorset Downs and Cranborne Chase | 116,900 | 7 |
135 | Dorset Heaths | 61,700 | 4 |
96 | Dunsmore and Feldon | 70,600 | 5 |
16 | Durham Coalfield Pennine Fringe | 66,100 | 6 |
15 | Durham Magnesian Limestone Plateau | 45,300 | 3 |
87 | East Anglian Chalk | 83,900 | 5 |
9 | Eden Valley | 81,000 | 5 |
145 | Exmoor | 130,400 | 3 |
105 | Forest of Dean and Lower Wye | 31,400 | 2 |
81 | Greater Thames Estuary | 83,700 | 4 |
130 | Hampshire Downs | 148,900 | 8 |
154 | Hensbarrow | 11,900 | 1 |
100 | Herefordshire Lowlands | 88,700 | 7 |
101 | Herefordshire Plateau | 34,600 | 3 |
93 | High Leicestershire | 56,900 | 6 |
122 | High Weald | 174,900 | 3 |
40 | Holderness | 87,300 | 2 |
29 | Howardian Hills | 24,000 | 5 |
18 | Howgill Fells | 10,400 | 4 |
41 | Humber Estuary | 28,000 | 7 |
39 | Humberhead Levels | 171,800 | 7 |
112 | Inner London | 33,000 | 5 |
137 | Isle of Porland | 1,100 | 1 |
127 | Isle of Wight | 38,000 | 0 |
158 | Isles of Scilly | 1,600 | 0 |
75 | Kesteven Uplands | 69,000 | 7 |
56 | Lancashire Coal Measures | 40,600 | 7 |
35 | Lancashire Valleys | 55,400 | 5 |
32 | Lancashire and Amounderness Plain | 98,600 | 6 |
94 | Leicestershire Vales | 71,800 | 9 |
74 | Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire Wolds | 64,100 | 4 |
71 | Leicestershire and South Derbyshire Coalfield | 20,500 | 4 |
42 | Lincolnshire Coast and Marshes | 88,200 | 4 |
43 | Lincolnshire Wolds | 84,500 | 3 |
121 | Low Weald | 182,400 | 5 |
159 | Lundy | 500 | 0 |
103 | Malvern Hills | 8,300 | 5 |
55 | Manchester Conurbation | 34,200 | 5 |
54 | Manchester Pennine Fringe | 39,300 | 6 |
139 | Marshwood and Powerstock Vales | 15,900 | 4 |
72 | Mease/Sence Lowlands | 32,400 | 5 |
70 | Melbourne Parklands | 15,000 | 4 |
141 | Mendip Hills | 30,300 | 7 |
60 | Mersey Valley | 44,700 | 6 |
58 | Merseyside Conurbation | 28,700 | 5 |
84 | Mid Norfolk | 90,900 | 5 |
12 | Mid Northumberland | 63,700 | 5 |
66 | Mid Severn Sandstone Plateau | 88,800 | 6 |
143 | Mid Somerset Hills | 42,100 | 5 |
109 | Midvale Ridge | 44,500 | 1 |
20 | Morecambe Bay Limestones | 40,000 | 5 |
31 | Morecambe Coast and Lune Estuary | 13,200 | 3 |
68 | Needwood and South Derbyshire Claylands | 81,500 | 6 |
131 | New Forest | 73,800 | 4 |
119 | North Downs | 137,400 | 4 |
79 | North East Norfolk and Flegg | 24,700 | 3 |
113 | North Kent Plain | 84,800 | 4 |
77 | North Norfolk Coast | 6,200 | 2 |
1 | North Northumberland Coastal Plain | 37,700 | 4 |
10 | North Pennines | 214,600 | 6 |
76 | North West Norfolk | 80,100 | 5 |
25 | North York Moors and Cleveland Hills | 165,900 | 5 |
95 | Northamptonshire Uplands | 101,100 | 5 |
89 | Northamptonshire Vales | 90,400 | 6 |
45 | Northern Lincolnshire Edge with Coversands | 50,100 | 6 |
111 | Northern Thames Basin | 251,000 | 6 |
2 | Northumberland Sandstone Hills | 72,700 | 6 |
38 | Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Yorkshire Coalfield | 169,800 | 7 |
17 | Orton Fells | 29,300 | 5 |
63 | Oswestry Uplands | 10,000 | 1 |
22 | Pennine Dales Fringe | 87,300 | 8 |
124 | Pevensey Levels | 9,600 | 3 |
64 | Potteries and Churnet Valley | 53,100 | 4 |
144 | Quantock Hills | 7,600 | 1 |
92 | Rockingham Forest | 51,000 | 4 |
123 | Romney Marshes | 36,700 | 3 |
132 | Salisbury Plain and West Wiltshire Downs | 122,300 | 7 |
57 | Sefton Coast | 9,000 | 2 |
106 | Severn and Avon Vales | 210,300 | 9 |
49 | Sherwood | 53,500 | 5 |
65 | Shropshire Hills | 108,000 | 5 |
61 | Shropshire, Cheshire and Staffordshire Plain | 366,200 | 12 |
6 | Solway Basin | 98,400 | 5 |
142 | Somerset Levels and Moors | 65,800 | 5 |
126 | South Coast Plain | 52,200 | 2 |
19 | South Cumbria Low Fells | 69,100 | 6 |
151 | South Devon | 121,100 | 4 |
125 | South Downs | 101,900 | 6 |
13 | South East Northumberland Coastal Plain | 43,700 | 4 |
128 | South Hampshire Lowlands | 38,600 | 5 |
104 | South Herefordshire and Over Severn | 51,100 | 5 |
83 | South Norfolk and High Suffolk Claylands | 214,500 | 5 |
136 | South Purbeck | 11,900 | 2 |
86 | South Suffolk and North Essex Clayland | 329,000 | 6 |
53 | South West Peak | 42,600 | 6 |
47 | Southern Lincolnshire Edge | 57,000 | 5 |
30 | Southern Magnesian Limestone | 136,800 | 6 |
36 | Southern Pennines | 119,700 | 8 |
82 | Suffolk Coast and Heaths | 82,200 | 6 |
23 | Tees Lowlands | 102,200 | 5 |
102 | Teme Valley | 19,300 | 6 |
129 | Thames Basin Heaths | 118,500 | 5 |
114 | Thames Basin Lowlands | 32,800 | 6 |
115 | Thames Valley | 86,100 | 5 |
85 | The Brecks | 101,900 | 6 |
80 | The Broads | 56,300 | 5 |
149 | The Culm | 283,100 | 5 |
46 | The Fens | 382,600 | 9 |
157 | The Lizard | 14,700 | 1 |
69 | Trent Valley Washlands | 39,400 | 13 |
48 | Trent and Belvoir Vales | 177,600 | 7 |
11 | Tyne Gap and Hadrian's Wall | 43,400 | 9 |
14 | Tyne and Wear Lowlands | 46,400 | 5 |
108 | Upper Thames Clay Vales | 189,000 | 6 |
24 | Vale of Mowbray | 60,600 | 6 |
26 | Vale of Pickering | 43,100 | 3 |
146 | Vale of Taunton and Quantock Fringes | 48,400 | 6 |
28 | Vale of York | 102,100 | 6 |
120 | Wealden Greensand | 145,800 | 5 |
7 | West Cumbria Coastal Plain | 49,300 | 4 |
156 | West Penwith | 20,200 | 1 |
138 | Weymouth Lowlands | 13,300 | 5 |
52 | White Peak | 52,900 | 5 |
59 | Wirral | 16,500 | 3 |
91 | Yardley-Whittlewood Ridge | 33,800 | 4 |
140 | Yeovil Scarplands | 78,600 | 7 |
21 | Yorkshire Dales | 240,000 | 9 |
37 | Yorkshire Southern Pennine Fringe | 58,500 | 4 |
27 | Yorkshire Wolds | 111,400 | 6 |