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.
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 .
Liste des Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Angleterre +AONBCréationSuperficie (km)Comté Arnside and Silverdale 1972 75 Cumbria (South Lakeland), Lancashire (Lancastre) Blackdown Hills 1991 370 Devon (East Devon, Mid Devon), Somerset (South Somerset, Somerset West and Taunton) Cannock Chase 1958 68 Staffordshire (Cannock Chase, Lichfield) Chichester Harbour 1970 37 Hampshire (Havant), Sussex de l'Ouest (Chichester)Chilterns 1965 833 Buckinghamshire (Aylesbury Vale, Chiltern, South Bucks, Wycombe), Central Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire (Dacorum, North Hertfordshire, Three Rivers), Luton, Oxfordshire (South Oxfordshire) Cornwall 1959 958 Cornouailles Cotswolds 1966 2038 Bath 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 Downs 1981 983 Dorset, Hampshire (New Forest), Somerset (Mendip, South Somerset), WiltshireBodmin Moor 1959 208 CornouaillesVallée de Dedham 1970 90 Essex (Colchester, Tendring), Suffolk (Babergh) Dorset 1959 1129 Dorset East Devon 1963 268 Devon (East Devon) Forest of Bowland 1964 803 Lancashire (Lancastre, Pendle, Ribble Valley, Wyre), Yorkshire du Nord (Craven) High Weald 1983 1460 Sussex de l'Est (Hastings, Rother, Wealden), Kent (Ashford, Sevenoaks, Tonbridge and Malling, Tunbridge Wells), Surrey (Tandridge), Sussex de l'Ouest (Crawley, Horsham, Mid Sussex) Howardian Hills 1987 204 Yorkshire du Nord (Hambleton, Ryedale) Isle of Wight 1963 189 Isle of Wight Îles Scilly 1975 16 Îles Scilly Kent Downs 1968 878 Greater London (Bromley), Kent (Ashford, Canterbury, Dover, Folkestone & Hythe, Gravesham, Maidstone, Sevenoaks, Swale, Tonbridge and Malling), Medway Lincolnshire Wolds 1973 560 Lincolnshire (East Lindsey, West Lindsey), North East Lincolnshire Malvern Hills 1959 105 Gloucestershire (Forest of Dean), Herefordshire, Worcestershire (Malvern Hills) Mendip Hills 1972 200 Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset, Somerset (Mendip, Sedgemoor) Nidderdale 1994 603 Yorkshire du Nord (Hambleton, Harrogate, Richmondshire) Norfolk Coast 1968 453 Norfolk (Great Yarmouth, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, North Norfolk) North Devon Coast 1959 171 Devon (North Devon, Torridge) North Pennines 1988 1983 County Durham, Cumbria (Carlisle, Eden), Northumberland, Yorkshire du Nord (Richmondshire) Northumberland Coast 1958 138 Northumberland North Wessex Downs 1972 1730 Hampshire (Basingstoke and Deane, Test Valley), Oxfordshire (South Oxfordshire, Vale of White Horse), Swindon, West Berkshire, Wiltshire Quantock Hills 1956 98 Somerset (Sedgemoor, Somerset West and Taunton) Shropshire Hills 1958 802 Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Siblyback 1968 56 Cornouailles Solway Coast 1964 115 Cumbria (Allerdale, Carlisle) South Devon 1960 337 Devon (South Hams), Torbay Suffolk Coast and Heaths 1970 403 Suffolk (Babergh, East Suffolk) Surrey Hills 1958 422 Surrey (Guildford, Mole Valley, Reigate and Banstead, Tandridge, Waverley) Tamar Valley 1995 190 Cornouailles, Devon (South Hams, West Devon) Vallée de la Wye (partiellement au pays de Galles) 1971 326 Gloucestershire (Forest of Dean), Herefordshire, Monmouthshire
Pays de Galles +AONBCréationSuperficie (km)ComtéAnglesey1967221AngleseyClwydian Range et Dee1985389Denbighshire, Flintshire, WrexhamPéninsule de Gower1956188SwanseaLlŷn1956155GwyneddVallée de la Wye (partiellement en Angleterre)1971326Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Monmouthshire
Irlande du Nord +AONBCréationSuperficie (km)ComtéAntrim Coast and Glens1989724Causeway Coast and Glens, Mid and East AntrimBinevenagh1966138Causeway Coast and GlensChaussée des Géants198942Causeway Coast and GlensLagan Valley196539Belfast, Lisburn and CastlereaghMontagnes de Mourne1986570Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon, Newry, Mourne and DownRing of Gullion1966154Newry, Mourne and DownSperrins19681181Causeway Coast and Glens, Derry City and Strabane, Fermanagh and Omagh, Mid UlsterStrangford Lough and Lecale1967525Ards and North Down, Newry, Mourne and Down
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