North Pennines National Landscape

Name: North Pennines National Landscape
Address: 1 Martin Street Stanhope, Weardale Business Centre, The Old Co-op Building, Bishop Auckland DL13 2UY England, Barnard Castle, United Kingdom
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1 Martin Street Stanhope, Weardale Business Centre, The Old Co-op Building, Bishop Auckland DL13 2UY England

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The North Pennines National Landscape is a stunning landscape of open heather moors, dramatic dales, tumbling upland rivers, wonderful woods, close-knit communities, glorious waterfalls, fantastic birds, colourful hay meadows, stone-built villages, intriguing imprints of a mining and industrial past, distinctive plants and much, much more. The North Pennines is also a UNESCO Global Geopark. The North Pennines is a distinctive landscape of high moorland and broad upland dales in the North of England. It shares a boundary with the Yorkshire Dales National Park in the south and extends as far as the Tyne Valley, just south of Hadrian's Wall, in the north. The North Pennines National Landscape covers large areas of the three counties of Cumbria, Durham and Northumberland.

At a glance

Typical visit: about 3 hours