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The park has the highest population of any national park in the UK which at 107,929 is bigger than the next two largest combined (Lake District: 42,000 and Peak District: 38,000). The park has a wealth of cultural heritage from evidence in Boxgrove of the earliest humans, through to contemporary arts, such as Edward James’ collection of ...
Already the largest national park in the United Kingdom, in 2010 it was expanded into Perth and Kinross. [3] Roughly 18,000 people live within the 4,528-square-kilometre (1,748 sq mi) national park. The largest communities are Aviemore, Ballater, Braemar, Grantown-on-Spey, Kingussie, Newtonmore and Tomintoul.
The national park received 18.14 million tourist visitors in 2022. This equates to 29.15 million tourist days, counting visits of greater than three hours. [10] It is the largest of the thirteen national parks in England and Wales and the second largest in the UK after the Cairngorms National Park. [11]
In 2010 it became the fifth largest national park in England and Wales. [17] In the UK, designation as a national park means that planning and other functions are provided by a national park authority, with additional restrictions that enhance protection from inappropriate development.
The North York Moors is an upland area in north-eastern Yorkshire, England.It contains one of the largest expanses of heather moorland in the United Kingdom. The area was designated as a National Park in 1952, through the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949.
The New Forest National Park area covers 566 km 2 (219 sq mi), [42] and the New Forest SSSI covers almost 300 km 2 (120 sq mi), making it the largest contiguous area of unsown vegetation in lowland Britain. It includes roughly:
The Yorkshire Dales National Park is a 2,178 km 2 (841 sq mi) national park in England which covers most of the Yorkshire Dales, the Howgill Fells, and the Orton Fells. The Nidderdale area of the Yorkshire Dales is not within the national park, and has instead been designated a national landscape .
The largest settlements within the National Park are Ashburton (the largest, with a population of about 3,500), Buckfastleigh, Moretonhampstead, Princetown, Yelverton, Horrabridge, South Brent, Christow, and Chagford. [1] For a full list, expand the Settlements of Dartmoor navigational box at the bottom of this page.