What is so special about one of the smallest protected landscapes in the country?
It is amazingly rich in wildlife - both fauna and flora - birds, butterflies, bats, orchids, ferns, wildflowers and a huge diversity of special habitats ranging from reedbeds to ancient woodlands to the expanses of Morecambe Bay.
It is amazingly rich in wildlife - both fauna and flora - birds, butterflies, bats, orchids, ferns, wildflowers and a huge diversity of special habitats ranging from reedbeds to ancient woodlands to the expanses of Morecambe Bay.
The Arnside and Silverdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty is characterised by a landscape of low limestone hills and crags with intervening low-lying mosses...
The special qualities of the AONB are the important characteristics of the area that underpin its designation as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
"Landscape means an area, as perceived by people, whose character is the result of the action and interaction of natural and/or human factors." (European Landscape Convention, 2000)
Climate change, will have significant impacts on Landscape, wildlife, the marine environment, communities and land-management, both within and around the AONB.
The Carboniferous Limestone bedrock of the area was deposited during the time period known as the Dinantian, 360 million years ago...
Landscape is more than just ‘the view’. It is the dynamic backdrop to our lives. It is how we perceive the relationship between nature and culture in our surroundings.
