Visit NIDDERDALE

Did you know ...
Did you know that ...
The AONB is 22 years
old this year and was
designated on the
14 th February 1994.
The AONB attracts
around 1.2
million visitors
each year.
In 2014/15 our conservation
volunteers devoted around
3,190 hours to conservation
work in the AONB and our dry
stone walling volunteers spent
1,240 hours to repairing dry
stone wallls across the AONB.
About AONBs & the AONB Family
About AONBs & Upper the AONB Nidderdale Family
In the AONB there is:
• 1 World Heritage Site
• 14 Conservation Areas
• 125 Scheduled Ancient Monuments
• 574 Listed buildings
• 3 Historic Parks and Gardens
36%
of the
AONB is
heather
moorland.
Nidderdale AONB
covers 603km 2
(233 miles 2 ) of
land in the foothills of
the Pennines in North
Yorkshire.
There are
about
200,000
sheep in the
AONB.
There are
914km (568
miles) of public
rights of way in the
AONB.
There are 11 reservoirs
in the AONB. 7 are for
water supply and 4 are
compensation for water from
the rivers Nidd, Washburn,
Ure and Wharfe. When full
they contain just under 11,000
million gallons of water.
The AONB has a population
of around 16,000 people
with 54 hamlets and villages
- Pateley Bridge is the only town
in the AONB.
7%
of the
AONB is
woodland.
AONBs
have the
same level
of protection as
National Parks.
Nidderdale
AONB
is one of
a family of 46
AONBs in the UK.
95%
of the AONB
is in the
Harrogate District and
it is completely within
the county of North
Yorkshire.
Nidderdale AONB is located on the eastern flanks of the Pennines in the heart of the Yorkshire
Dales. It shares its western boundary with the Yorkshire Dales National Park, and stretches
south towards the towns of Ilkley and Otley. To the north and east of the AONB are the towns of
Masham, Knaresborough and Harrogate and the city of Ripon.
“An Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB)
is exactly what it says it is: an outstanding
landscape whose distinctive character and
natural beauty are so precious that it is in the
nation’s interest to safeguard them.”
www.landscapesforlife.org.uk
England:
1. Arnside & Silverdale
2. Blackdown Hills
3. Cannock Chase
4. Chichester Harbour
5. Chilterns
6. Cornwall
7. Cotswolds
8. Cranborne Chase
& West Wiltshire
Downs
9. Dedham Vale
10. Dorset
11. East Devon
12. Forest of Bowland
13. Howardian Hills
14. High Weald
15. Isle of Wight
16. Isles of Scilly
17. Kent Downs
18. Lincolnshire Wolds
19. Malvern Hills
20. Mendip Hills
21. Norfolk Coast
22. North Devon
23. North Pennines
24. North Wessex
Downs
25. Nidderdale
26. Northumberland
Coast
27. Quantock Hills
28. Shropshire Hills
29. Solway Coast
30. South Devon
31. Suffolk Coast &
Heaths
32. Surrey Hills
33. Tamar Valley
England and Wales:
34. Wye Valley
Wales:
35. Clwydian Range &
Dee Valley
36. Gower
37. Lleyn
38. Anglesey
Northern Ireland:
39. Antrim Coast &
Glens
40. Causeway Coast
41. Lagan Valley
42. Mourne
43. Binevenagh
44. Ring of Gullion
45. Sperrin
46. Strangford Lough
Upper Nidderdale © Ange Harker
There are 46 AONBs in the United Kingdom and they
cover 18% of our finest countryside. They were created
alongside National Parks as a result of the ‘National Parks
and Access to the Countryside Act 1949’.
For more information visit
www.landscapesforlife.org.uk
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Map courtesy of www.landscapesforlife.org.uk