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Best of North West England

The 5 best national parks in North West England

Our curated top 5 national parks in North West England, ranked by quality rating, image richness and content depth. For the complete list of 6 national parks see the full national parks index for North West England.

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    Lake District National Park

    Split Rock - geograph.org.uk - 4277515

    England's largest national park — mountains, lakes, Wordsworth country, UNESCO.

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    Yorkshire Dales

    Yorkshire Dales — Jez Smith from Whitefield, Bury, Gtr. Manchester, United Kingdom

    Yorkshire Dales is a Upland area of the Pennines in Northern England.

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    Lyme Park

    Lyme Park - geograph.org.uk - 4523969

    Lyme Park is a large estate south of Disley, Cheshire, England. It is managed by the National Trust and consists of a mansion house surrounded by formal gardens and a deer park in the Peak District Na

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    Macclesfield Forest

    Trentabank reservoir June 2010 (1) - geograph.org.uk - 1943564

    Macclesfield Forest is an area of woodland, predominantly conifer plantation, around 3 miles (5 km) south east of Macclesfield in the civil parish of Macclesfield Forest and Wildboarclough, in Cheshir

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    Windgather Rocks

    Air ambulance landing below Windgather Rocks - geograph.org.uk - 1017014

    The Windgather Rocks (416 metres/1,365 ft a.s.l.) is a gritstone crag on the Derbyshire–Cheshire border in England. It is in the Peak District National Park and is a popular site for learning the rudi

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