Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
England

Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

Section Title: England
Table Section Text: None

AONB	Established	km2	sq mi	Local Authorities

Arnside and Silverdale	1972	75	29	Cumbria (South Lakeland), Lancashire (Lancaster)

Blackdown Hills	1991	370	143	Devon (East Devon, Mid Devon), Somerset (South Somerset, Somerset West and Taunton)

Cannock Chase	1958	68	26	Staffordshire (Cannock Chase, Lichfield)

Chichester Harbour	1970	37	14	Hampshire (Havant), West Sussex (Chichester)

Chiltern Hills	1965	833	322	Buckinghamshire (Aylesbury Vale, Chiltern, South Bucks, Wycombe), Central Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire (Dacorum, North Hertfordshire, Three Rivers), Luton, Oxfordshire (South Oxfordshire)

Cornwall	1959	958	370	Cornwall

Cotswolds	1966	2038	787	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	380	Dorset, Hampshire (New Forest), Somerset (Mendip, South Somerset), Wiltshire

Dedham Vale	1970	90	35	Essex (Colchester, Tendring), Suffolk (Babergh)

Dorset	1959	1129	436	Dorset

East Devon	1963	268	103	Devon (East Devon)

Forest of Bowland	1964	803	312	Lancashire (Lancaster, Pendle, Ribble Valley, Wyre), North Yorkshire (Craven)

High Weald	1983	1460	564	East Sussex (Hastings, Rother, Wealden), Kent (Ashford, Sevenoaks, Tonbridge and Malling, Tunbridge Wells), Surrey (Tandridge), West Sussex (Crawley, Horsham, Mid Sussex)

Howardian Hills	1987	204	79	North Yorkshire (Hambleton, Ryedale)

Isle of Wight	1963	189	73	Isle of Wight

Isles of Scilly	1975	16	6	Isles of Scilly

Kent Downs	1968	878	339	Greater London (Bromley), Kent (Ashford, Canterbury, Dover, Folkestone & Hythe, Gravesham, Maidstone, Sevenoaks, Swale, Tonbridge and Malling), Medway

Lincolnshire Wolds	1973	560	216	Lincolnshire (East Lindsey, West Lindsey), North East Lincolnshire

Malvern Hills	1959	105	41	Gloucestershire (Forest of Dean), Herefordshire, Worcestershire (Malvern Hills)

Mendip Hills	1972	200	77	Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset, Somerset (Mendip, Sedgemoor)

Nidderdale	1994	603	233	North Yorkshire (Hambleton, Harrogate, Richmondshire)

Norfolk Coast	1968	453	175	Norfolk (Great Yarmouth, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, North Norfolk)

North Devon Coast	1959	171	66	Devon (North Devon, Torridge)

North Pennines	1988	1983	766	County Durham, Cumbria (Carlisle, Eden), Northumberland, North Yorkshire (Richmondshire)

Northumberland Coast	1958	138	53	Northumberland

North Wessex Downs	1972	1730	668	Hampshire (Basingstoke and Deane, Test Valley), Oxfordshire (South Oxfordshire, Vale of White Horse), Swindon, West Berkshire, Wiltshire

Quantock Hills	1956	98	38	Somerset (Sedgemoor, Somerset West and Taunton)

Shropshire Hills	1958	802	310	Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin

Solway Coast	1964	115	44	Cumbria (Allerdale, Carlisle)

South Devon	1960	337	130	Devon (South Hams), Torbay

Suffolk Coast and Heaths	1970	403	155	Suffolk (Babergh, East Suffolk)

Surrey Hills	1958	422	163	Surrey (Guildford, Mole Valley, Reigate and Banstead, Tandridge, Waverley)

Tamar Valley	1995	190	75	Cornwall, Devon (South Hams, West Devon)

Wye Valley (partly in Wales)	1971	326	126	Gloucestershire (Forest of Dean), Herefordshire, Monmouthshire

Sentence(s)

The smallest AONB is the Isles of Scilly with 16 km², and the largest is the Cotswolds with 2,038 km² (787 sq mi) in 1966.

final_sentence: The smallest AONB is the Isles of Scilly with 16 km², and the largest is the Cotswolds with 2,038 km² (787 sq mi) in 1966.