National Character Areas

Displaying 159 of 159 NCAs, covering a total of 13,046,000 hectares.

IDNameArea (ha)# Adjacent NCAs
97Arden143,4007
117Avon Vales64,3006
90Bedfordshire Greensand Ridge27,3001
88Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire Claylands260,60010
116Berkshire and Marlborough Downs111,0006
99Black Mountains and Golden Valley26,0002
147Blackdowns80,8005
133Blackmore Vale and Vale of Wardour78,4005
153Bodmin Moor28,6001
5Border Moors and Forests127,2004
34Bowland Fells37,4001
33Bowland Fringe and Pendle Hill74,1007
118Bristol, Avon Valleys and Ridges84,3004
67Cannock Chase and Cank Wood72,8005
155Carnmenellis14,3001
44Central Lincolnshire Vale81,9006
78Central North Norfolk72,0005
73Charnwood17,5004
62Cheshire Sandstone Ridge22,0002
3Cheviot Fringe51,6003
4Cheviots36,5003
110Chilterns164,1008
98Clun and North West Herefordshire Hills62,6002
152Cornish Killas222,1007
107Cotswolds288,2009
8Cumbria High Fells199,0006
51Dark Peak86,6006
150Dartmoor87,4003
50Derbyshire Peak Fringe and Lower Derwent37,8006
148Devon Redlands97,4006
134Dorset Downs and Cranborne Chase116,9007
135Dorset Heaths61,7004
96Dunsmore and Feldon70,6005
16Durham Coalfield Pennine Fringe66,1006
15Durham Magnesian Limestone Plateau45,3003
87East Anglian Chalk83,9005
9Eden Valley81,0005
145Exmoor130,4003
105Forest of Dean and Lower Wye31,4002
81Greater Thames Estuary83,7004
130Hampshire Downs148,9008
154Hensbarrow11,9001
100Herefordshire Lowlands88,7007
101Herefordshire Plateau34,6003
93High Leicestershire56,9006
122High Weald174,9003
40Holderness87,3002
29Howardian Hills24,0005
18Howgill Fells10,4004
41Humber Estuary28,0007
39Humberhead Levels171,8007
112Inner London33,0005
137Isle of Porland1,1001
127Isle of Wight38,0000
158Isles of Scilly1,6000
75Kesteven Uplands69,0007
56Lancashire Coal Measures40,6007
35Lancashire Valleys55,4005
32Lancashire and Amounderness Plain98,6006
94Leicestershire Vales71,8009
74Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire Wolds64,1004
71Leicestershire and South Derbyshire Coalfield20,5004
42Lincolnshire Coast and Marshes88,2004
43Lincolnshire Wolds84,5003
121Low Weald182,4005
159Lundy5000
103Malvern Hills8,3005
55Manchester Conurbation34,2005
54Manchester Pennine Fringe39,3006
139Marshwood and Powerstock Vales15,9004
72Mease/Sence Lowlands32,4005
70Melbourne Parklands15,0004
141Mendip Hills30,3007
60Mersey Valley44,7006
58Merseyside Conurbation28,7005
84Mid Norfolk90,9005
12Mid Northumberland63,7005
66Mid Severn Sandstone Plateau88,8006
143Mid Somerset Hills42,1005
109Midvale Ridge44,5001
20Morecambe Bay Limestones40,0005
31Morecambe Coast and Lune Estuary13,2003
68Needwood and South Derbyshire Claylands81,5006
131New Forest73,8004
119North Downs137,4004
79North East Norfolk and Flegg24,7003
113North Kent Plain84,8004
77North Norfolk Coast6,2002
1North Northumberland Coastal Plain37,7004
10North Pennines214,6006
76North West Norfolk80,1005
25North York Moors and Cleveland Hills165,9005
95Northamptonshire Uplands101,1005
89Northamptonshire Vales90,4006
45Northern Lincolnshire Edge with Coversands50,1006
111Northern Thames Basin251,0006
2Northumberland Sandstone Hills72,7006
38Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Yorkshire Coalfield169,8007
17Orton Fells29,3005
63Oswestry Uplands10,0001
22Pennine Dales Fringe87,3008
124Pevensey Levels9,6003
64Potteries and Churnet Valley53,1004
144Quantock Hills7,6001
92Rockingham Forest51,0004
123Romney Marshes36,7003
132Salisbury Plain and West Wiltshire Downs122,3007
57Sefton Coast9,0002
106Severn and Avon Vales210,3009
49Sherwood53,5005
65Shropshire Hills108,0005
61Shropshire, Cheshire and Staffordshire Plain366,20012
6Solway Basin98,4005
142Somerset Levels and Moors65,8005
126South Coast Plain52,2002
19South Cumbria Low Fells69,1006
151South Devon121,1004
125South Downs101,9006
13South East Northumberland Coastal Plain43,7004
128South Hampshire Lowlands38,6005
104South Herefordshire and Over Severn51,1005
83South Norfolk and High Suffolk Claylands214,5005
136South Purbeck11,9002
86South Suffolk and North Essex Clayland329,0006
53South West Peak42,6006
47Southern Lincolnshire Edge57,0005
30Southern Magnesian Limestone136,8006
36Southern Pennines119,7008
82Suffolk Coast and Heaths82,2006
23Tees Lowlands102,2005
102Teme Valley19,3006
129Thames Basin Heaths118,5005
114Thames Basin Lowlands32,8006
115Thames Valley86,1005
85The Brecks101,9006
80The Broads56,3005
149The Culm283,1005
46The Fens382,6009
157The Lizard14,7001
69Trent Valley Washlands39,40013
48Trent and Belvoir Vales177,6007
11Tyne Gap and Hadrian's Wall43,4009
14Tyne and Wear Lowlands46,4005
108Upper Thames Clay Vales189,0006
24Vale of Mowbray60,6006
26Vale of Pickering43,1003
146Vale of Taunton and Quantock Fringes48,4006
28Vale of York102,1006
120Wealden Greensand145,8005
7West Cumbria Coastal Plain49,3004
156West Penwith20,2001
138Weymouth Lowlands13,3005
52White Peak52,9005
59Wirral16,5003
91Yardley-Whittlewood Ridge33,8004
140Yeovil Scarplands78,6007
21Yorkshire Dales240,0009
37Yorkshire Southern Pennine Fringe58,5004
27Yorkshire Wolds111,4006