Natural England - North West
North West
The features that define the landscape of each area are recorded in individual descriptions which explain what makes one area different from another and shows how that character has arisen and how it is changing.
An introduction to the region - Countryside character: North West: (628kb)
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North West National Character Area map
- 5. Border Moors & Forests
- 6. Solway Basin
- 7. West Cumbria Coastal Plain
- 8. Cumbria High Fells
- 9. Eden Valley
- 10. North Pennines
- 11. Tyne Gap & Hadrian's Wall
- 17. Orton Fells
- 18. Howgill Fells
- 19. South Cumbria Low Fells
- 20. Morecambe Bay Limestones
- 21. Yorkshire Dales
- 31. Morecambe Coast & Lune Estuary
- 32. Lancashire & Amounderness Plain
- 33. Bowland Fringe & Pendle Hill
- 34. Bowland Fells
- 35. Lancashire Valleys
- 36. Southern Pennines
- 51. Dark Peak
- 53. South West Peak
- 54. Manchester Pennine Fringe
- 55. Manchester Conurbation
- 56. Lancashire Coal Measures
- 57. Sefton Coast
- 58. Merseyside Conurbation
- 59. Wirral
- 60. Mersey Valley
- 61. Shropshire, Cheshire & Staffordshire Plain
- 62. Cheshire Sandstone Ridge
