Arnside and Silverdale National Landscape (legally and previously known as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty or AONB) in England, is on the border between Lancashire and Cumbria, adjoining Morecambe Bay. One of the smallest National Landscapes, it covers 29 square miles (75 km2) between the Kent Estuary, the River Keer and the A6 road. It was designated in 1972.
Arnside and Silverdale National Landscape
The village of Arnside on the Kent estuary, with Arnside Knott behind
The area is characterised by low hills of Carboniferous Limestone, including Arnside Knott (522 feet) and Warton Crag (535 feet), interspersed with grassland. Much of the area is covered by deciduous woodland, in which ash, oak, and hazel predominate. The coastal area contains large extents of salt marsh, although these are under threat from the shifting channel of the Kent Estuary. [1]
The AONB is supported by the Landscape Trust, a registered charity with over 1000 members. Its activities include ownership and management of several nature reserves and the production of a journal Keer to Kent.[2]
Referencesedit
^BirdLife International (2015) Important Bird Areas factsheet: Leighton Moss. Downloaded from . Archived from the original on 10 July 2007. Retrieved 7 March 2014. on 08/01/2015
^"The Landscape Trust". Arnside and Silverdale AONB. Retrieved 17 January 2019.
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