North Pennines National Landscape
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North Pennines National Landscape
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This is one of England’s most special places
It is a National Landscape and a UNESCO Global Geopark. The North Pennines National Landscape team works to conserve and enhance the natural beauty of the area, and focus on nature recovery and helping people to make an emotional connection with nature.
The North Pennines is a stunning landscape of open heather moors and peatlands, attractive dales and hay meadows, tumbling upland rivers, wonderful woods, welcoming communities, intriguing imprints of a mining and industrial past, distinctive birds, animals and plants and much, much more.
There are events and more information on their website.
Weardale, as part of the wider North Pennines, has some fabulous dark skies – perfect for stargazing. The North Pennines is the darkest mainland National Landscape and is one of the darkest places in England. On a clear night you can see thousands of twinkling stars above Weardale, as well as the Milky Way – our home galaxy. In October half term, the annual North Pennines Stargazing Festival brings together a series of events across the area to help people discover astronomy and nocturnal wildlife.
Five sites in the area offer all-terrain mobility scooters (trampers) to enable more visitors to enjoy the site. They are currently available at Bowlees Visitor Centre, Derwent Reservoir, Killhope Lead Mining Museum, High Force waterfall and Talkin Tarn Country Park. For information on hire locations and how to book visit North Pennines Outdoor Mobility