# Natural areas of England

The Natural Areas of England are regions, officially designated by Natural England, each with a characteristic association of wildlife and natural features. More formally, they are defined as "biogeographic zones which reflect the geological foundation, the natural systems and processes and the wildlife in different parts of England...".
There are 120 Natural Areas in England ranging from the North Pennines to the Dorset Heaths and from The Lizard to The Fens. They were first defined in 1996 by English Nature and the Countryside Commission, with help from English Heritage. They produced a map of England that depicts the natural and cultural dimensions of the landscape.
Natural Areas are assessed by Natural England, the UK Government's advisor on the natural environment, to be "a sensible scale at which to view the wildlife resource, from both a national and local perspective". Natural Areas were also used by English Nature as an "ecologically coherent framework for setting objectives for nature conservation."
Many Natural Areas coincide with a further natural division referred to as National Character Areas; however, in other cases a Natural Area may contain two or more National Character Areas.

## Natural Areas by region
### North East

1. North Northumberland Coastal Plain 2. Border Uplands 4. North Pennines 5. Northumbria Coal Measures 6. Durham Magnesian Limestone Plateau 7. Tees Lowlands 98. Northumberland Coast 99. Tyne to Tees Coast

### North West

3. Solway Basin 9. Eden Valley 10. Cumbria Fells and Dales 11. West Cumbria Coastal Plain 12. Forest of Bowland 13. Lancashire Plain and Valleys 14. Southern Pennines 26. Urban Mersey Basin 117. Liverpool Bay 118. Morecambe Bay 119. Cumbrian Coast 120. Solway Firth

### Yorkshire

8. Yorkshire Dales 14. Southern Pennines 15. Pennine Dales Fringe 16. Vale of York and Mowbray 17. North York Moors and Hills 18. Vale of Pickering 19. Yorkshire Wolds 20. Holderness 21. Humber Estuary 22. Humberhead Levels 23. Southern Magnesian Limestone 24. Coal Measures 34. North Lincolnshire Coversands and Clay Vales 35. Lincolnshire Wolds 36. Lincolnshire Coast and Marshes 100. Saltburn to Bridlington 101. Bridlington to Skegness

### West Midlands

25. Dark Peak 27. Meres and Mosses 28. Potteries and Churnet Valley 29. South West Peak 30. White Peak 31. Derbyshire Peak Fringe and Lower Derwent 40. Needwood and South Derbyshire Claylands 41. Oswestry Uplands 42. Shropshire Hills 43. Midlands Plateau 44. Midland Clay Pastures 56. Severn and Avon Vales 57. Malvern Hills and Teme Valley 58. Clun and North West Herefordshire Hills 59. Central Herefordshire 60. Black Mountains and Golden Valley 51. Dean Plateau and Wye Valley 116. Severn Estuary

### East Midlands

32. Sherwood 33. Trent Valley and Rises 34. North Lincolnshire Coversands and Clay Vales 35. Lincolnshire Wolds 36. Lincolnshire Coast and Marshes 37. The Fens 38. Lincolnshire and Rutland Limestone 39. Charnwood 44. Midland Clay Pastures 45. Rockingham Forest 52. West Anglian Plain 53. Bedfordshire Greensand Ridge 54. Yardley-Whittlewood Ridge 102. The Wash

### East of England

37. The Fens 46. Breckland 47. North Norfolk 48. The Broads 49. Suffolk Coast and Heaths 50. East Anglian Plain 51. East Anglian Chalk 52. West Anglian Plain 53. Bedfordshire Greensand Ridge 54. Yardley-Whittlewood Ridge 65. Chilterns 66. London Basin 67. Greater Thames Estuary 102. The Wash 103. Old Hunstanton to Sheringham 104. Sheringham to Lowestoft 105. Suffolk Coast

### South East

63. Thames and Avon Vales 64. Midvale Ridge 65. Chilterns 66. London Basin 67. Greater Thames Estuary 68. North Kent Plain 69. North Downs 70. Wealden Greensand 71. Romney Marshes 72. High Weald 73. Low Weald and Pevensey 74. South Downs 75. South Coast Plain and Hampshire Lowlands 76. Isle of Wight 77. New Forest 78. Hampshire Downs 79. Berkshire and Marlborough Downs 106. North Kent Coast 107. East Kent Coast 108. Folkestone to Selsey Bill 109. Solent and Poole Bay

### South West

55. Cotswolds 62. Bristol, Avon Valleys and Ridges 63. Thames and Avon Vales 79. Berkshire and Marlborough Downs 80. South Wessex Downs 81. Dorset Heaths 82. Isles of Portland and Purbeck 83. Wessex Vales 84. Mendip Hills 85. Somerset Levels and Moors 86. Mid Somerset Hills 87. Exmoor and the Quantocks 88. Vale of Taunton and Quantock Fringes 89. Blackdowns 90. Devon Redlands 91. South Devon 92. Dartmoor 93. The Culm 94. Bodmin Moor 95. Cornish Killas and Granites 96. West Penwith 97. The Lizard 110. South Dorset Coast 111. Lyme Bay 112. Start Point to Land's End 113. Isles of Scilly 114. Land's End to Minehead 115. Bridgwater Bay 116. Severn Estuary