Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty in England

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 52. Chapters: Cotswolds, Suffolk Coast and Heaths, Isles of Scilly, Malvern Hills, Quantock Hills, Blackdown Hills, Weald, Forest of Bowland, South Downs, Wye Valley, Chiltern Hills, North Devon Coast, High Weald AONB, Cannock Chase, North Wessex Downs, Shropshire Hills AONB, Chain Hill, Chichester Harbour, Howardian Hills, North Pennines, Surrey Hills AONB, Arnside and Silverdale, Northumberland Coast, St. Catherine's Hill, Hampshire, East Hampshire AONB, Norfolk Coast AONB, East Devon AONB, South Devon, Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs, Kent Downs, South Hampshire Coast, Nidderdale, Hastings Country Park, Sussex Downs AONB, South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Isle of Wight AONB. Excerpt: The Isles of Scilly (pronounced ; Cornish: or Enesek Syllan) form an archipelago off the southwestern tip of the Cornish peninsula of Great Britain. The islands have had a unitary authority council since 1890, and are separate from the Cornwall unitary authority, but some services are combined with Cornwall and the islands are still part of the ceremonial county of Cornwall. This council is part of the UK and currently known as the Council of the Isles of Scilly. The adjective "Scillonian" is sometimes used for people or things related to the archipelago. The Isles of Scilly also form part of the Duchy of Cornwall. The islands are designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Isles of Scilly (map of 1845) Location of the Isles of Scilly (circled)The Isles of Scilly form an archipelago of five inhabited islands and numerous other small rocky islets (around 140 in total) lying 45 km (28 mi) off Land's End. They are all composed of granite rock of early Permian age, an exposed part of the Cornubian batholith. The islands' position produces a place of great contrast-the ameliorating effect of the sea means they rarely have frost or snow, which allows local farmers to grow flowers well ahead of those in mainland Britain. The chief agricultural product is cut flowers, mostly daffodils. Exposure to Atlantic winds means that spectacular winter gales lash the islands from time to time. This is reflected in the landscape, most clearly seen on Tresco where the lush sub-tropical Abbey Gardens on the sheltered southern end of the island contrast with the low heather and bare rock sculpted by the wind on the exposed northern end. As part of a 2002 marketing campaign, the plant conservation charity Plantlife chose thrift (Armeria maritima) as the "county flower" of the islands. This table provides an overview of the most important islands: inhabited until 1855 The Isles of Scilly have a temperate Oceanic climate (Köppen climate classification Cfb) amongst the mildest and warme