Twenty-eight towns and cities in England have less than 10% of their area within 15 miles of a national park or an area of outstanding beauty

National parks

Areas of outstanding

natural beauty

Northumberland

North Pennines

1

Sunderland

Lake District

2

North York

Moors

Yorkshire Dales

Doncaster

Kingston

upon Hull

7

5

4

3

6

Liverpool

9

8

10

The Broads

Chester

11

Leicester

Peak District

12

14

Coventry

13

16

15

Wye Valley

Northampton

17

18

Basildon

Exmoor

19

North

Devon

Dartmoor

New

Forest

South

Downs

Isles of Scilly

1 South Shields, 2 Hartlepool, 3 Scunthorpe,

4 Bolton, 5 Wigan, 6 St Helens, 7 Southport,

8 Birkenhead, 9 Warrington, 10 Mansfield,

11 Nottingham, 12 Nuneaton, 13 Sollihul,

14 Peterborough, 15 Cambridge, 16 Redditch,

17 Harlow, 18 Chelmsford, 19 Southend-on-Sea

National parks

Areas of outstanding

natural beauty

Northumberland

South Shields

Sunderland

North

Pennines

Hartlepool

Lake

District

North York

Moors

Yorkshire

Dales

St Helens

Southport

Kingston upon Hull

Wigan

Doncaster

Bolton

Scunthorpe

Liverpool

Warrington

Chester

Norfolk

Coast

Mansfield

Peak

District

Birkenhead

Nottingham

Leicester

Nuneaton

The Broads

Peterborough

Shropshire Hills

Solihull

Coventry

Cambridge

Redditch

Northampton

Harlow

Wye Valley

Cotswolds

Chelmsford

North

Wessex

Downs

Basildon

Exmoor

Southend-on-Sea

North Devon

High

Weald

South

Downs

New

Forest

Dartmoor

Isles of Scilly