Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty

NAME	LOCATION	AREA		DATE DESIGNATED	DATE CONFIRMED
		Sq km	Sq mi

Arnside and Silverdale	Cumbria; Lancashire	75	29	July 1972	December 1972
Blackdown Hills	Devon; Somerset	370	143	December 1990	June 1991
Cannock Chase	Staffordshire	68	26	June 1958	September 1958
Chichester Harbour	Hampshire; West Sussex	74	29	July 1963	February 1964
Chilterns	Bedfordshire; Buckinghamshire; Hertfordshire; Oxfordshire	833	322	May 1964	December 1965
Cornwall	Cornwall	958	370	April 1959	November 1959¹
Cotswolds	Gloucestershire; Oxfordshire; Warwickshire; Wiltshire; Worcestershire; unitary authorities of Bath and North-East Somerset and South Gloucestershire	2,038	787	February 1966	August 1966²
Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs	Dorset; Hampshire; Somerset; Wiltshire	983	379	December 1981	October 1983
Dedham Vale	Essex; Suffolk	90	35	February 1970	October 1970³
Dorset	Dorset; Somerset	1,129	436	December 1957	July 1959
East Devon	Devon	268	103	January 1963	September 1963
East Hampshire	Hampshire	383	148	June 1961	September 1962
Forest of Bowland	Lancashire; North Yorkshire	802	310	February 1963	February 1964
High Weald	East Sussex; Kent; Surrey; West Sussex	1,460	564	December 1980	October 1983
Howardian Hills	North Yorkshire	204	79	December 1986	October 1987
Isle of Wight	Isle of Wight	189	73	March 1963	September 1963
Isles of Scilly	Scilly Islands	16	6	October 1975	February 1976
Kent Downs	Kent; London Borough of Bromley; Medway unitary authority	878	339	December 1967	July 1968
Lincolnshire Wolds	Lincolnshire; North-East Lincolnshire unitary authority	558	215	February 1973	April 1973
Malvern Hills	Gloucestershire; Herefordshire; Worcestershire	150	58	March 1959	October 1959
Mendip Hills	Somerset; unitary authorities of Bath and North-East Somerset and North-West Somerset	198	76	February 1972	December 1972⁴
Nidderdale	North Yorkshire	603	233	October 1992	February 1994
Norfolk Coast	Norfolk	451	174	November 1967	April 1968
North Devon	Devon	171	66	September 1959	May 1960
North Pennines	Cumbria; County Durham; Northumberland	1,983	765	December 1978	June 1988
Northumberland Coast	Northumberland	135	52	January 1958	March 1958
North Wessex Downs	Hampshire; Oxfordshire; Wiltshire; unitary authorities of Newbury and Swindon	1,730	668	December 1971	December 1972
Quantock Hills	Somerset	99	38	May 1956	January 1957
Shropshire Hills	Shropshire; unitary authority of Telford and Wrekin	804	310	July 1958	March 1959
Solway Coast	Cumbria	115	44	September 1964	December 1964
South Devon	Devon; unitary authorities of Plymouth and Torbay	337	130	September 1959	August 1960
South Hampshire Coast	Hampshire (New Forest)	77	30	May 1967	December 1967
Suffolk Coast and Heaths	Suffolk	403	156	October 1969	March 1970
Surrey Hills	Surrey	419	162	September 1956	May 1958
Sussex Downs	Brighton and Hove; East Sussex; West Sussex	983	379	June 1965	April 1966
Tamar Valley	Cornwall; Devon; Plymouth unitary authority	195	75	August 1994	August 1995
Wye Valley⁵	Gloucestershire; Herefordshire; Monmouthshire	326	126	February 1971	December 1971
¹ Extended in 1981 (confirmed in 1983). ² Extended in 1989 (confirmed in 1990). ³ Extended in 1978 and 1991. ⁴ Extended in 1988 (confirmed in 1989). ⁵ Extends into Wales.

		AREA
NAME	LOCATION	Sq km	Sq mi

Assynt-Coigach	Highland	902	348
Ben Nevis and Glen Coe	Highland; Argyll and Bute; Perth and Kinross	1,016	392
The Cairngorm Mountains	Highland; Aberdeenshire; Moray	672	259
The Cuillin Hills	Highland	219	85
Deeside and Lochnagar	Aberdeenshire; Angus	400	154
Dornoch Firth	Highland	75	29
East Stewartry Coast	Dumfries and Galloway	52	20
Eildon and Leaderfoot	Scottish Borders	36	14
Fleet Valley	Dumfries and Galloway	53	20
Glen Affric	Highland	193	75
Glen Strathfarrar	Highland	38	15
Hoy and West Mainland	Orkney Islands	148	57
Jura	Argyll and Bute	218	84
Kintail	Highland	163	63
Knapdale	Argyll and Bute	198	76
Knoydart	Highland	395	153
Kyle of Tongue	Highland	185	71
Kyles of Bute	Argyll and Bute	44	17
Loch na Keal, Isle of Mull	Argyll and Bute	127	49
Loch Lomond	Argyll and Bute; Stirling; West Dunbartonshire	274	106
Loch Rannoch and Glen Lyon	Perth and Kinross; Stirling	484	187
Loch Shiel	Highland	134	52
Loch Tummel	Perth and Kinross	92	36
Lynn of Lorn	Argyll and Bute	48	29
Morar, Moidart, and Ardnamurchan	Highland	135	52
Nith Estuary	Dumfries and Galloway	93	36
North Arran	North Ayrshire	238	92
North-West Sutherland	Highland	205	79
River Earn (Comrie to St Fillans)	Perth and Kinross	30	12
River Tay (Dunkeld)	Perth and Kinross	56	22
Scarba, Lunga, and the Garvellachs	Argyll and Bute	19	7
Shetland	Shetland Islands	116	45
The Small Islands	Highland	155	60
South Lewis, Harris, and North Uist	Western Isles	1,096	423
South Uist Machair	Western Isles	61	24
St Kilda	Western Isles	90	35
The Trossachs	Stirling	46	18
Trotternish	Highland	50	19
Upper Tweeddale	Scottish Borders	105	41
Wester Ross	Highland	1,453	561
All of Scotland's National Scenic Areas (NSAs) were designated in 1980.

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