Welcome to the North Pennines

Explore this fantastic landscape and enjoy a warm welcome from the people of the North Pennines AONB & UNESCO Global Geopark.

As you explore you’ll find open heather moors, delightful dales, tumbling upland rivers, wonderful woods, close-knit communities, glorious waterfalls, fantastic birds, stone-built villages, intriguing imprints of a mining and industrial past, distinctive plants, fascinating invertebrates and much, much more.

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Did you know…

  • We have over 300 active volunteers

  • Every year we engage 1000+ school children in conservation activities

  • 40% of the UK's species-rich upland hay meadows are in the North Pennines

  • On 22 November 2023 our AONBs became National Landscapes

  • We've restored an area of peatland 4 times the size of Newcastle

  • We restored 273ha of grassland through our Nectarworks project

  • The North Pennines National Landscape has 16 Dark Sky Discovery sites

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