Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty ou AONB (littéralement, « Espace de remarquable beauté naturelle »), est en Angleterre, au pays de Galles et en Irlande du Nord, un espace reconnu pour la beauté de ses paysages, et protégé par des dispositions spécifiques.

Carte des AONB des îles Britanniques.

Toutefois, les réglementations en vigueur dans les AONB sont nettement moins contraignantes que celles établies pour les Parcs nationaux d'Angleterre et du Pays de Galles, créés par la même loi, le National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act de 1949. L'équivalent écossais des AONB sont les National Scenic Areas.

En 2008, il existait quarante-neuf Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty de superficie très variable. Le plus grand est celui des Cotswolds et fait 2 038 km2.

Liste des Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

Angleterre
AONB Création Superficie (km2) Comté
Arnside and Silverdale197275Cumbria (South Lakeland), Lancashire (Lancaster)
Blackdown Hills1991370Devon (East Devon, Mid Devon), Somerset (South Somerset, Somerset West and Taunton)
Cannock Chase195868Staffordshire (Cannock Chase, Lichfield)
Chichester Harbour197037Hampshire (Havant), West Sussex (Chichester)
Chilterns1965833Buckinghamshire (Aylesbury Vale, Chiltern, South Bucks, Wycombe), Central Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire (Dacorum, North Hertfordshire, Three Rivers), Luton, Oxfordshire (South Oxfordshire)
Cornwall1959958Cornouailles
Cotswolds19662038Bath 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 Downs1981983Dorset, Hampshire (New Forest), Somerset (Mendip, South Somerset), Wiltshire
Vallée de Dedham197090Essex (Colchester, Tendring), Suffolk (Babergh)
Dorset19591129Dorset
East Devon1963268Devon (East Devon)
Forest of Bowland1964803Lancashire (Lancaster, Pendle, Ribble Valley, Wyre), North Yorkshire (Craven)
High Weald19831460East Sussex (Hastings, Rother, Wealden), Kent (Ashford, Sevenoaks, Tonbridge and Malling, Tunbridge Wells), Surrey (Tandridge), West Sussex (Crawley, Horsham, Mid Sussex)
Howardian Hills1987204North Yorkshire (Hambleton, Ryedale)
Isle of Wight1963189Isle of Wight
Isles of Scilly197516Isles of Scilly
Kent Downs1968878Greater London (Bromley), Kent (Ashford, Canterbury, Dover, Folkestone & Hythe, Gravesham, Maidstone, Sevenoaks, Swale, Tonbridge and Malling), Medway
Lincolnshire Wolds1973560Lincolnshire (East Lindsey, West Lindsey), North East Lincolnshire
Malvern Hills1959105Gloucestershire (Forest of Dean), Herefordshire, Worcestershire (Malvern Hills)
Mendip Hills1972200Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset, Somerset (Mendip, Sedgemoor)
Nidderdale1994603North Yorkshire (Hambleton, Harrogate, Richmondshire)
Norfolk Coast1968453Norfolk (Great Yarmouth, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, North Norfolk)
North Devon Coast1959171Devon (North Devon, Torridge)
North Pennines19881983County Durham, Cumbria (Carlisle, Eden), Northumberland, North Yorkshire (Richmondshire)
Northumberland Coast1958138Northumberland
North Wessex Downs19721730Hampshire (Basingstoke and Deane, Test Valley), Oxfordshire (South Oxfordshire, Vale of White Horse), Swindon, West Berkshire, Wiltshire
Quantock Hills195698Somerset (Sedgemoor, Somerset West and Taunton)
Shropshire Hills1958802Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin
Solway Coast1964115Cumbria (Allerdale, Carlisle)
South Devon1960337Devon (South Hams), Torbay
Suffolk Coast and Heaths1970403Suffolk (Babergh, East Suffolk)
Surrey Hills1958422Surrey (Guildford, Mole Valley, Reigate and Banstead, Tandridge, Waverley)
Tamar Valley1995190Cornouailles, Devon (South Hams, West Devon)
Wye Valley (partly in Wales)1971326Gloucestershire (Forest of Dean), Herefordshire, Monmouthshire

Pays de Galles
AONB Création Superficie (km2) Comté
Anglesey 1967 221 Anglesey
Clwydian Range et Dee 1985 389 Denbighshire, Flintshire, Wrexham
Péninsule de Gower 1956 188 Swansea
Llŷn 1956 155 Gwynedd
Wye Valley (partiellement en Angleterre) 1971 326 Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Monmouthshire

Irlande du Nord
AONB Création Superficie (km2) Comté
Antrim Coast and Glens 1989 724 Causeway Coast and Glens, Mid and East Antrim
Binevenagh 1966[1] 138 Causeway Coast and Glens
Chaussée des Géants 1989 42 Causeway Coast and Glens
Lagan Valley 1965 39 Belfast, Lisburn and Castlereagh
Montagnes de Mourne 1986 570 Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon, Newry, Mourne and Down
Ring of Gullion 1966[2] 154 Newry, Mourne and Down
Sperrins 1968 1181 Causeway Coast and Glens, Derry City and Strabane, Fermanagh and Omagh, Mid Ulster
Strangford Lough and Lecale 1967[3] 525 Ards and North Down, Newry, Mourne and Down


Notes et références
  1. Sous le nom de North Derry AONB, étendu et redésigné sous le nom de Binevenagh AONB en 2006.
  2. Redésigné en Ring of Gullion en 1991.
  3. Lecale Coast AONB. Strangford Lough AONB désigné 1972 puis redésigné comme un seul AONB en 2010.
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