Arnside and Silverdale National Landscape

Arnside and Silverdale
National Landscape
Arnside and Silverdale; National Landscape
	The village of Arnside on the Kent estuary, with Arnside Knott behind
	Location of the National Landscape in England
Location	Cumbria and Lancashire, England
Coordinates	54°10′35″N 2°47′29″W / 54.17639°N 2.79139°W
Area	75 km2 (29 sq mi)
Established	1972
Website	arnsidesilverdaleaonb.org.uk

Arnside and Silverdale National Landscape (legally and previously known as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty or AONB) in England, is on the border between Lancashire and Cumbria, adjoining Morecambe Bay. One of the smallest National Landscapes, it covers 29 square miles (75 km²) between the Kent Estuary, the River Keer and the A6 road. It was designated in 1972.

Description

The area is characterised by low hills of Carboniferous Limestone, including Arnside Knott (522 feet) and Warton Crag (535 feet), interspersed with grassland. Much of the area is covered by deciduous woodland, in which ash, oak, and hazel predominate. The coastal area contains large extents of salt marsh, although these are under threat from the shifting channel of the Kent Estuary. [1]

The Leighton Moss nature reserve, owned by the RSPB, is the largest area of reedbeds in North West England, and is an Important Bird Area.^[1] The bittern, one of the resident species, has been adopted as the logo of the AONB. In addition, there are fifteen SSSIs in the area; one of these, Gait Barrows National Nature Reserve, is home to some rare species of butterfly including the high brown fritillary.

Arnside and Silverdale are the main villages in the area. Other settlements include Warton, Yealand Redmayne, Beetham and Storth.

Landscape Trust

The AONB is supported by the Landscape Trust, a registered charity with over 1000 members. Its activities include ownership and management of several nature reserves and the production of a journal Keer to Kent.^[2]

References

^ BirdLife International (2015) Important Bird Areas factsheet: Leighton Moss. Downloaded from "BirdLife International - conserving the world's birds". Archived from the original on 10 July 2007. Retrieved 7 March 2014. on 08/01/2015
^ "The Landscape Trust". Arnside and Silverdale AONB. Retrieved 17 January 2019.

External links

[1] BirdLife International (2015) Important Bird Areas factsheet: Leighton Moss. Downloaded from "BirdLife International - conserving the world's birds". Archived from the original on 10 July 2007. Retrieved 7 March 2014. on 08/01/2015

[aonblt-2] "The Landscape Trust". Arnside and Silverdale AONB. Retrieved 17 January 2019.

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v t e National Landscapes in England
East of England	Chilterns Dedham Vale Norfolk Coast Suffolk & Essex Coast & Heaths
East Midlands	Lincolnshire Wolds
North East	Northumberland Coast North Pennines
North West	Arnside and Silverdale Forest of Bowland North Pennines Solway Coast
South East	Chichester Harbour Chilterns Cotswolds Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs High Weald Isle of Wight Kent Downs North Wessex Downs Surrey Hills Former: East Hampshire¹ South Hampshire Coast² Sussex Downs¹
South West	Blackdown Hills Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs Cornwall Cotswolds Dorset East Devon Isles of Scilly Mendip Hills North Devon Coast North Wessex Downs Quantock Hills South Devon Tamar Valley Wye Valley³
West Midlands	Cannock Chase Cotswolds Malvern Hills Shropshire Hills Wye Valley³
Yorkshire and the Humber	Forest of Bowland Howardian Hills Lincolnshire Wolds Nidderdale North Pennines
¹ Now part of South Downs National Park ² Now part of New Forest National Park ³ Partly in Wales

Authority control databases
International	VIAF
National	United States