The Lecale Coast AONB is between Strangford Lough and the Mourne Mountains and has a low, sometimes sandy, rocky or grassy shoreline. Its southern tip lies along an extensive sand and dune system at Dundrum Bay. Stretching from Dundrum Bay to Strangford village, the coastline is a place of delightful coves, dramatic headlands and secluded sandy beaches. It was designated in 1967 and covers an area of 3108 hectares Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) is a United Kingdom. ... View of Portaferry from the Strangford side of the lough Strangford Lough (Loch Cuan in Irish) is a lough in County Down, Northern Ireland, separated from the Irish Sea by the Ards peninsula. ... The granite Mountains of Mourne are located in the first proposed national park of Northern Ireland. ...
The LecaleCoast is an area of low-lying rocky, sandy or grassy shoreline extending from Strangford Lough to Mourne AONBs.
The Norfolk CoastAONB consists of a broad range of coastal landscapes and environments, including sand dunes, sandy flats, saltmarsh, lagoons, and creeks flats.
Encompassing the coast around Bideford (or Barnstaple Bay), this is a landscape of rough, rocky coasts bissected by the beaches of Moore Bay and the estuary of the River Taw which forms the Braunton Burrows and Northern Burrows at its mouth.
The primary purpose of the AONB designation is to conserve and enhance the natural beauty of the landscape, with two secondary aims: meeting the need for quiet enjoyment of the countryside and having regard for the interests of those who live and work there.
AONBs are created under the same legislation as the national parks, the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949.
The smallest AONB is the Isles of Scilly (1976), 16 km², and the largest AONB is the Cotswolds (1966), 2,038 km².
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