Welcome to Arnside & Silverdale AONB
This is a unique landscape of special importance - everything comes together: the rock, the soil, the water and the weather, to make one of the most biodiverse areas outside of the tropics.
It is recognised as a core landscape and biodiversity resource of regional, national and international importance. It covers an area of 75 square kilometres, including many individually designated wildlife sites.
The AONB is a distinctive yet living and dynamic landscape. Many generations of human activity and management have shaped the AONB's intimate character. It is a cultural landscape, a complex mosaic in which agricultural pastures and arable farmland are interwoven with large semi-natural areas consisting of intertidal sands and mudflats, salt marsh, coastal mosses, species-rich limestone grasslands, limestone pavements, cliffs and escarpments and wooded limestone hills.
