National Character Areas

Displaying 159 of 159 NCAs, covering a total of 13,046,000 hectares.

ID	Name	Size (ha)	# BGS Sites ▼	# Adjacent NCAs
88	Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire Claylands	260,600	6	10
122	High Weald	174,900	6	3
108	Upper Thames Clay Vales	189,000	6	6
110	Chilterns	164,100	5	8
121	Low Weald	182,400	5	5
23	Tees Lowlands	102,200	5	5
38	Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Yorkshire Coalfield	169,800	4	7
125	South Downs	101,900	4	6
36	Southern Pennines	119,700	4	8
46	The Fens	382,600	4	9
87	East Anglian Chalk	83,900	3	5
127	Isle of Wight	38,000	3	0
22	Pennine Dales Fringe	87,300	3	8
83	South Norfolk and High Suffolk Claylands	214,500	3	5
118	Bristol, Avon Valleys and Ridges	84,300	2	4
107	Cotswolds	288,200	2	9
148	Devon Redlands	97,400	2	6
16	Durham Coalfield Pennine Fringe	66,100	2	6
94	Leicestershire Vales	71,800	2	9
60	Mersey Valley	44,700	2	6
10	North Pennines	214,600	2	6
111	Northern Thames Basin	251,000	2	6
106	Severn and Avon Vales	210,300	2	9
61	Shropshire, Cheshire and Staffordshire Plain	366,200	2	12
151	South Devon	121,100	2	4
13	South East Northumberland Coastal Plain	43,700	2	4
86	South Suffolk and North Essex Clayland	329,000	2	6
14	Tyne and Wear Lowlands	46,400	2	5
146	Vale of Taunton and Quantock Fringes	48,400	2	6
97	Arden	143,400	1	7
117	Avon Vales	64,300	1	6
133	Blackmore Vale and Vale of Wardour	78,400	1	5
33	Bowland Fringe and Pendle Hill	74,100	1	7
67	Cannock Chase and Cank Wood	72,800	1	5
44	Central Lincolnshire Vale	81,900	1	6
134	Dorset Downs and Cranborne Chase	116,900	1	7
96	Dunsmore and Feldon	70,600	1	5
145	Exmoor	130,400	1	3
40	Holderness	87,300	1	2
75	Kesteven Uplands	69,000	1	7
32	Lancashire and Amounderness Plain	98,600	1	6
35	Lancashire Valleys	55,400	1	5
70	Melbourne Parklands	15,000	1	4
84	Mid Norfolk	90,900	1	5
12	Mid Northumberland	63,700	1	5
143	Mid Somerset Hills	42,100	1	5
119	North Downs	137,400	1	4
1	North Northumberland Coastal Plain	37,700	1	4
25	North York Moors and Cleveland Hills	165,900	1	5
89	Northamptonshire Vales	90,400	1	6
64	Potteries and Churnet Valley	53,100	1	4
65	Shropshire Hills	108,000	1	5
126	South Coast Plain	52,200	1	2
82	Suffolk Coast and Heaths	82,200	1	6
129	Thames Basin Heaths	118,500	1	5
80	The Broads	56,300	1	5
149	The Culm	283,100	1	5
69	Trent Valley Washlands	39,400	1	13
11	Tyne Gap and Hadrian's Wall	43,400	1	9
26	Vale of Pickering	43,100	1	3
28	Vale of York	102,100	1	6
120	Wealden Greensand	145,800	1	5
37	Yorkshire Southern Pennine Fringe	58,500	1	4
90	Bedfordshire Greensand Ridge	27,300	0	1
116	Berkshire and Marlborough Downs	111,000	0	6
99	Black Mountains and Golden Valley	26,000	0	2
147	Blackdowns	80,800	0	5
153	Bodmin Moor	28,600	0	1
5	Border Moors and Forests	127,200	0	4
34	Bowland Fells	37,400	0	1
155	Carnmenellis	14,300	0	1
78	Central North Norfolk	72,000	0	5
73	Charnwood	17,500	0	4
62	Cheshire Sandstone Ridge	22,000	0	2
3	Cheviot Fringe	51,600	0	3
4	Cheviots	36,500	0	3
98	Clun and North West Herefordshire Hills	62,600	0	2
152	Cornish Killas	222,100	0	7
8	Cumbria High Fells	199,000	0	6
51	Dark Peak	86,600	0	6
150	Dartmoor	87,400	0	3
50	Derbyshire Peak Fringe and Lower Derwent	37,800	0	6
135	Dorset Heaths	61,700	0	4
15	Durham Magnesian Limestone Plateau	45,300	0	3
9	Eden Valley	81,000	0	5
105	Forest of Dean and Lower Wye	31,400	0	2
81	Greater Thames Estuary	83,700	0	4
130	Hampshire Downs	148,900	0	8
154	Hensbarrow	11,900	0	1
100	Herefordshire Lowlands	88,700	0	7
101	Herefordshire Plateau	34,600	0	3
93	High Leicestershire	56,900	0	6
29	Howardian Hills	24,000	0	5
18	Howgill Fells	10,400	0	4
41	Humber Estuary	28,000	0	7
39	Humberhead Levels	171,800	0	7
112	Inner London	33,000	0	5
137	Isle of Porland	1,100	0	1
158	Isles of Scilly	1,600	0	0
56	Lancashire Coal Measures	40,600	0	7
74	Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire Wolds	64,100	0	4
71	Leicestershire and South Derbyshire Coalfield	20,500	0	4
42	Lincolnshire Coast and Marshes	88,200	0	4
43	Lincolnshire Wolds	84,500	0	3
159	Lundy	500	0	0
103	Malvern Hills	8,300	0	5
55	Manchester Conurbation	34,200	0	5
54	Manchester Pennine Fringe	39,300	0	6
139	Marshwood and Powerstock Vales	15,900	0	4
72	Mease/Sence Lowlands	32,400	0	5
141	Mendip Hills	30,300	0	7
58	Merseyside Conurbation	28,700	0	5
66	Mid Severn Sandstone Plateau	88,800	0	6
109	Midvale Ridge	44,500	0	1
20	Morecambe Bay Limestones	40,000	0	5
31	Morecambe Coast and Lune Estuary	13,200	0	3
68	Needwood and South Derbyshire Claylands	81,500	0	6
131	New Forest	73,800	0	4
79	North East Norfolk and Flegg	24,700	0	3
113	North Kent Plain	84,800	0	4
77	North Norfolk Coast	6,200	0	2
76	North West Norfolk	80,100	0	5
95	Northamptonshire Uplands	101,100	0	5
45	Northern Lincolnshire Edge with Coversands	50,100	0	6
2	Northumberland Sandstone Hills	72,700	0	6
17	Orton Fells	29,300	0	5
63	Oswestry Uplands	10,000	0	1
124	Pevensey Levels	9,600	0	3
144	Quantock Hills	7,600	0	1
92	Rockingham Forest	51,000	0	4
123	Romney Marshes	36,700	0	3
132	Salisbury Plain and West Wiltshire Downs	122,300	0	7
57	Sefton Coast	9,000	0	2
49	Sherwood	53,500	0	5
6	Solway Basin	98,400	0	5
142	Somerset Levels and Moors	65,800	0	5
19	South Cumbria Low Fells	69,100	0	6
128	South Hampshire Lowlands	38,600	0	5
104	South Herefordshire and Over Severn	51,100	0	5
136	South Purbeck	11,900	0	2
53	South West Peak	42,600	0	6
47	Southern Lincolnshire Edge	57,000	0	5
30	Southern Magnesian Limestone	136,800	0	6
102	Teme Valley	19,300	0	6
114	Thames Basin Lowlands	32,800	0	6
115	Thames Valley	86,100	0	5
85	The Brecks	101,900	0	6
157	The Lizard	14,700	0	1
48	Trent and Belvoir Vales	177,600	0	7
24	Vale of Mowbray	60,600	0	6
7	West Cumbria Coastal Plain	49,300	0	4
156	West Penwith	20,200	0	1
138	Weymouth Lowlands	13,300	0	5
52	White Peak	52,900	0	5
59	Wirral	16,500	0	3
91	Yardley-Whittlewood Ridge	33,800	0	4
140	Yeovil Scarplands	78,600	0	7
21	Yorkshire Dales	240,000	0	9
27	Yorkshire Wolds	111,400	0	6

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Name

Size (ha)

# BGS Sites ▼

# Adjacent NCAs

Map

Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire Claylands

260,600

122

High Weald

174,900

108

Upper Thames Clay Vales

189,000

110

Chilterns

164,100

121

Low Weald

182,400

Tees Lowlands

102,200

Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Yorkshire Coalfield

169,800

125

South Downs

101,900

Southern Pennines

119,700

The Fens

382,600

East Anglian Chalk

83,900

127

Isle of Wight

38,000

Pennine Dales Fringe

87,300

South Norfolk and High Suffolk Claylands

214,500

118

Bristol, Avon Valleys and Ridges

84,300

107

Cotswolds

288,200

148

Devon Redlands

97,400

Durham Coalfield Pennine Fringe

66,100

Leicestershire Vales

71,800

Mersey Valley

44,700

North Pennines

214,600

111

Northern Thames Basin

251,000

106

Severn and Avon Vales

210,300

Shropshire, Cheshire and Staffordshire Plain

366,200

151

South Devon

121,100

South East Northumberland Coastal Plain

43,700

South Suffolk and North Essex Clayland

329,000

Tyne and Wear Lowlands

46,400

146

Vale of Taunton and Quantock Fringes

48,400

Arden

143,400

117

Avon Vales

64,300

133

Blackmore Vale and Vale of Wardour

78,400

Bowland Fringe and Pendle Hill

74,100

Cannock Chase and Cank Wood

72,800

Central Lincolnshire Vale

81,900

134

Dorset Downs and Cranborne Chase

116,900

Dunsmore and Feldon

70,600

145

Exmoor

130,400

Holderness

87,300

Kesteven Uplands

69,000

Lancashire and Amounderness Plain

98,600

Lancashire Valleys

55,400

Melbourne Parklands

15,000

Mid Norfolk

90,900

Mid Northumberland

63,700

143

Mid Somerset Hills

42,100

119

North Downs

137,400

North Northumberland Coastal Plain

37,700

North York Moors and Cleveland Hills

165,900

Northamptonshire Vales

90,400

Potteries and Churnet Valley

53,100

Shropshire Hills

108,000

126

South Coast Plain

52,200

Suffolk Coast and Heaths

82,200

129

Thames Basin Heaths

118,500

The Broads

56,300

149

The Culm

283,100

Trent Valley Washlands

39,400

Tyne Gap and Hadrian's Wall

43,400

Vale of Pickering

43,100

Vale of York

102,100

120

Wealden Greensand

145,800

Yorkshire Southern Pennine Fringe

58,500

Bedfordshire Greensand Ridge

27,300

116

Berkshire and Marlborough Downs

111,000

Black Mountains and Golden Valley

26,000

147

Blackdowns

80,800

153

Bodmin Moor

28,600

Border Moors and Forests

127,200

Bowland Fells

37,400

155

Carnmenellis

14,300

Central North Norfolk

72,000

Charnwood

17,500

Cheshire Sandstone Ridge

22,000

Cheviot Fringe

51,600

Cheviots

36,500

Clun and North West Herefordshire Hills

62,600

152

Cornish Killas

222,100

Cumbria High Fells

199,000

Dark Peak

86,600

150

Dartmoor

87,400

Derbyshire Peak Fringe and Lower Derwent

37,800

135

Dorset Heaths

61,700

Durham Magnesian Limestone Plateau

45,300

Eden Valley

81,000

105

Forest of Dean and Lower Wye

31,400

Greater Thames Estuary

83,700

130

Hampshire Downs

148,900

154

Hensbarrow

11,900

100

Herefordshire Lowlands

88,700

101

Herefordshire Plateau

34,600

High Leicestershire

56,900

Howardian Hills

24,000

Howgill Fells

10,400

Humber Estuary

28,000

Humberhead Levels

171,800

112

Inner London

33,000

137

Isle of Porland

1,100

158

Isles of Scilly

1,600

Lancashire Coal Measures

40,600

Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire Wolds

64,100

Leicestershire and South Derbyshire Coalfield

20,500

Lincolnshire Coast and Marshes

88,200

Lincolnshire Wolds

84,500

159

Lundy

500

103

Malvern Hills

8,300

Manchester Conurbation

34,200

Manchester Pennine Fringe

39,300

139

Marshwood and Powerstock Vales

15,900

Mease/Sence Lowlands

32,400

141

Mendip Hills

30,300

Merseyside Conurbation

28,700

Mid Severn Sandstone Plateau

88,800

109

Midvale Ridge

44,500

Morecambe Bay Limestones

40,000

Morecambe Coast and Lune Estuary

13,200

Needwood and South Derbyshire Claylands

81,500

131

New Forest

73,800

North East Norfolk and Flegg

24,700

113

North Kent Plain

84,800

North Norfolk Coast

6,200

North West Norfolk

80,100

Northamptonshire Uplands

101,100

Northern Lincolnshire Edge with Coversands

50,100

Northumberland Sandstone Hills

72,700

Orton Fells

29,300

Oswestry Uplands

10,000

124

Pevensey Levels

9,600

144

Quantock Hills

7,600

Rockingham Forest

51,000

123

Romney Marshes

36,700

132

Salisbury Plain and West Wiltshire Downs

122,300

Sefton Coast

9,000

Sherwood

53,500

Solway Basin

98,400

142

Somerset Levels and Moors

65,800

South Cumbria Low Fells

69,100

128

South Hampshire Lowlands

38,600

104

South Herefordshire and Over Severn

51,100

136

South Purbeck

11,900

South West Peak

42,600

Southern Lincolnshire Edge

57,000

Southern Magnesian Limestone

136,800

102

Teme Valley

19,300

114

Thames Basin Lowlands

32,800

115

Thames Valley

86,100

The Brecks

101,900

157

The Lizard

14,700

Trent and Belvoir Vales

177,600

Vale of Mowbray

60,600

West Cumbria Coastal Plain

49,300

156

West Penwith

20,200

138

Weymouth Lowlands

13,300

White Peak

52,900

Wirral

16,500

Yardley-Whittlewood Ridge

33,800

140

Yeovil Scarplands

78,600

Yorkshire Dales

240,000

Yorkshire Wolds

111,400