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  • ne of only 3 remote high altitude oakwood’s on Dartmoor • One of the highest oakwood • Forms part of the wiseman’s wood national nature reserve • Total cover – 9 acres (7, 7, 1, 4)
  • • A lake in southern Scotland • Part of the Lock Lomond and The Trossachs National Park • Length – 39km • Max depth – 153m (8, 4, 6)
  • • A network of mostly navigable rivers and lakes • Formed by the flooding of peat workings • Area of 303m2 with over 200 miles of navigable water ways • 7 rivers and 63 broads • Broads national park (7, 7, 6)
  • • Highest mountain in Britain • 1,345m above sea level • Located in the western end of the Grampian Mountains • Estimated 100,000 ascents in a year • The remains of a Devonian Volcano (8, 3, 5)
  • • Includes New Forest National Park • Known for native ponies, forests, trails and heathland • Visitors 14.75 million • Area – 566 km2 (7, 3, 3, 6)
  • • Limestone gorge in Mendip hills • Estimated to be 9,000 years old – cheddar man • Attracts about 50,000 visitors per year (7, 7, 5)
  • • Most prominent feature is St Nectan’s Kieve a sixty-foot waterfall through a hole in the rocks • One of the UKs most spiritual sights (7, 2, 6, 1, 4)
  • • Sea cave on the inhabited island of Staffa • Formed entirely from hexagonally joined basalt columns with a Palaeocene lava flow • Several sightseeing cruises from April - September (8, 6, 1, 4)
  • • South wales • Most westerly part of the historic county of Glamorgan • First area in the UK to be designated an area of outstanding natural beauty (5, 5, 5, 5)
  • • The area is characterized by more than 110k2 of mixed woodland • The second largest crown forest in England (7, 6, 2, 4)

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