Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
Carte des AONB du Royaume-Uni.
Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty ou AONB (littéralement, « Espace de remarquable beauté naturelle »), est en Angleterre , au pays de Galles et en Irlande du Nord , un espace reconnu pour la beauté de ses paysages, et protégé par des dispositions spécifiques.
Toutefois, les réglementations en vigueur dans les AONB sont nettement moins contraignantes que celles établies pour les Parcs nationaux d'Angleterre et du pays de Galles , créés par la même loi, le National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act de 1949. L'équivalent écossais des AONB sont les National Scenic Areas .
En 2008, il existait quarante-neuf Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty de superficie très variable. Le plus grand est celui des Cotswolds et fait 2 038 km2 .
Liste des Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
Angleterre
AONB
Création
Superficie (km2 )
Comté
Arnside and Silverdale
1972
75
Cumbria (South Lakeland ) , Lancashire (Lancastre )
Blackdown Hills
1991
370
Devon (East Devon , Mid Devon ) , Somerset (South Somerset , Somerset West and Taunton)
Cannock Chase
1958
68
Staffordshire (Cannock Chase, Lichfield )
Chichester Harbour
1970
37
Hampshire (Havant) , Sussex de l'Ouest (Chichester )
Chilterns
1965
833
Buckinghamshire (Aylesbury Vale , Chiltern , South Bucks , Wycombe ) , Central Bedfordshire , Hertfordshire (Dacorum , North Hertfordshire , Three Rivers ) , Luton , Oxfordshire (South Oxfordshire )
Cornwall
1959
958
Cornouailles
Cotswolds
1966
2038
Bath and North East Somerset , Gloucestershire (Cheltenham , Cotswold , Stroud , Tewkesbury ) , Oxfordshire (Cherwell , West Oxfordshire ) , South Gloucestershire , Warwickshire (Stratford-on-Avon ) , Wiltshire , Worcestershire (Wychavon )
Cranborne Chase and the West Wiltshire Downs
1981
983
Dorset , Hampshire (New Forest ) , Somerset (Mendip, South Somerset) , Wiltshire
Vallée de Dedham
1970
90
Essex (Colchester , Tendring) , Suffolk (Babergh )
Dorset
1959
1129
Dorset
East Devon
1963
268
Devon (East Devon )
Forest of Bowland
1964
803
Lancashire (Lancastre , Pendle , Ribble Valley , Wyre ) , Yorkshire du Nord (Craven )
High Weald
1983
1460
Sussex de l'Est (Hastings , Rother , Wealden ) , Kent (Ashford, Sevenoaks , Tonbridge and Malling , Tunbridge Wells ) , Surrey (Tandridge ) , Sussex de l'Ouest (Crawley , Horsham , Mid Sussex )
Howardian Hills
1987
204
Yorkshire du Nord (Hambleton, Ryedale )
Isle of Wight
1963
189
Isle of Wight
Îles Scilly
1975
16
Îles Scilly
Kent Downs
1968
878
Greater London (Bromley ) , Kent (Ashford , Canterbury, Dover , Folkestone & Hythe, Gravesham , Maidstone , Sevenoaks , Swale , Tonbridge and Malling ) , Medway
Lincolnshire Wolds
1973
560
Lincolnshire (East Lindsey , West Lindsey ) , North East Lincolnshire
Malvern Hills
1959
105
Gloucestershire (Forest of Dean ) , Herefordshire , Worcestershire (Malvern Hills )
Mendip Hills
1972
200
Bath and North East Somerset , North Somerset , Somerset (Mendip, Sedgemoor )
Nidderdale
1994
603
Yorkshire du Nord (Hambleton, Harrogate , Richmondshire )
Norfolk Coast
1968
453
Norfolk (Great Yarmouth , King's Lynn and West Norfolk , North Norfolk )
North Devon Coast
1959
171
Devon (North Devon , Torridge )
North Pennines
1988
1983
County Durham , Cumbria (Carlisle , Eden ) , Northumberland , Yorkshire du Nord (Richmondshire )
Northumberland Coast
1958
138
Northumberland
North Wessex Downs
1972
1730
Hampshire (Basingstoke and Deane , Test Valley ) , Oxfordshire (South Oxfordshire , Vale of White Horse ) , Swindon , West Berkshire , Wiltshire
Quantock Hills
1956
98
Somerset (Sedgemoor , Somerset West and Taunton)
Shropshire Hills
1958
802
Shropshire , Telford and Wrekin
Solway Coast
1964
115
Cumbria (Allerdale , Carlisle )
South Devon
1960
337
Devon (South Hams ) , Torbay
Suffolk Coast and Heaths
1970
403
Suffolk (Babergh , East Suffolk)
Surrey Hills
1958
422
Surrey (Guildford , Mole Valley , Reigate and Banstead , Tandridge , Waverley )
Tamar Valley
1995
190
Cornouailles , Devon (South Hams , West Devon )
Vallée de la Wye (partiellement au pays de Galles)
1971
326
Gloucestershire (Forest of Dean ) , Herefordshire , Monmouthshire
Pays de Galles
Irlande du Nord
AONB
Création
Superficie (km2 )
Comté
Antrim Coast and Glens
1989
724
Causeway Coast and Glens , Mid and East Antrim
Binevenagh
1966[ 1]
138
Causeway Coast and Glens
Chaussée des Géants
1989
42
Causeway Coast and Glens
Lagan Valley
1965
39
Belfast , Lisburn and Castlereagh
Montagnes de Mourne
1986
570
Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon , Newry, Mourne and Down
Ring of Gullion
1966[ 2]
154
Newry, Mourne and Down
Sperrins
1968
1181
Causeway Coast and Glens , Derry City and Strabane , Fermanagh and Omagh , Mid Ulster
Strangford Lough and Lecale
1967[ 3]
525
Ards and North Down , Newry, Mourne and Down
Notes et références
↑ Sous le nom de North Derry AONB, étendu et redésigné sous le nom de Binevenagh AONB en 2006.
↑ Redésigné en Ring of Gullion en 1991.
↑ Lecale Coast AONB. Strangford Lough AONB désigné 1972 puis redésigné comme un seul AONB en 2010.