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 we 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.
Also Weardale is within a designated Dark Skies area – there are 16 Dark Skies Discovery sites in the North Pennines which are easily accessible, and events are held periodically to help visitors to observe and understand the Milky Way and constellations. Dark Sky Discovery Sites
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