The National Park's special qualities

Outstanding natural beauty

The National Park encompasses a wide variety of different landscapes, from the woodlands and rolling heathland in the centre of the Forest, to the flat and wild coastline and the farmed landscape of small fields, hedgerows and narrow lanes.

Together these form an extensive area of unspoilt and ancient  countryside, with hidden villages and hamlets, that has largely been lost from other parts of lowland Britain.

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