Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

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.

Carte des AONB du Royaume-Uni.

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 (Lancaster)
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), West Sussex (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 (Lancaster, 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), West Sussex (Crawley, Horsham, Mid Sussex)
Howardian Hills	1987	204	Yorkshire du Nord (Hambleton, Ryedale)
Isle of Wight	1963	189	Isle of Wight
Isles of Scilly	1975	16	Isles of 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)
Wye Valley (partly in Wales)	1971	326	Gloucestershire (Forest of Dean), Herefordshire, Monmouthshire

Pays de Galles


AONB	Création	Superficie (km²)	Comté
Anglesey	1967	221	Anglesey
Clwydian Range et Dee	1985	389	Denbighshire, Flintshire, Wrexham
Péninsule de Gower	1956	188	Swansea
Llŷn	1956	155	Gwynedd
Wye Valley (partiellement en Angleterre)	1971	326	Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Monmouthshire

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.

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