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- European and Global Geopark
  - Geodiversity Action Plan
- 60 years of AONBs and National Parks
- AONB Management Plan 2009-14
- Climate Change and Carbon
- Funding Opportunities
  - Sustainable Development Fund
- Green Tourism Promotion
- International Year of Biodiversity 2010
- Jobs
- Other AONBs
- Publications
  - Annual Reports
    - Annual Report 2004-05
    - Annual Report 2005-06
    - Annual Report 2006-07
    - Annual Report 2007-08
    - Annual Review 2008-09
    - Annual Review 2009-10
  - Bird Guides
    - ID Guide to Birds of Open Country in the North Pennines
    - North Pennines Birdwatching Guide
    - Treading Carefully...Birds and Access Land in the North Pennines
  - Cycling Guides
    - Allendale Cycle Routes
    - Alston Cycle Routes
    - Cycling in the North Pennines
    - Middleton-in-Teesdale Cycle Routes
    - Packhorse Trails Guide
    - Stanhope Cycle Routes
    - Wheels to the Wild Cycle Route Guide
  - Festival & Events Programmes
  - General Leaflets
    - North Pennines AONB General Leaflet
    - North Pennines Public Transport Guide
    - Spring gentian
    - What's Special about the North Pennines?
  - Geological Publications
    - Frosterley Marble
    - Geology and landscape around Blanchland
    - Geology of the North Pennines
    - Rock Detectives 2010 Programme
    - Slitt Wood Geotrail
    - Stanhope fossil tree
    - Teesdale Time Trail General Leaflet
    - The Whin Sill
  - Hay Meadow Publications
    - Hay Time, The First Year of Action 2006-07
    - Hay Time, the Fourth Year of Action 2009-10
    - Hay Time, The Second Year of Action 2007-08
    - Hay Time, the Third Year of Action 2008-09
    - ID Guide to Hay Meadows Plants
    - Managing species-rich hay meadows for wildlife
    - Providing seed for restoring species-rich hay meadows
    - Restoring species-rich hay meadows
  - Horse Riding Guides
  - North Pennines News
    - Autumn & Winter 2005/06
    - Autumn & Winter 2006/07
    - Autumn & Winter 2007/08
    - Autumn & Winter 2008/09
    - Autumn & Winter 2009/10
    - Spring & Summer 2005
    - Spring & Summer 2006
    - Spring & Summer 2007
    - Spring & Summer 2008
    - Spring & Summer 2009
    - Spring & Summer 2010
    - Winter 2004/5
  - North Pennines Pocket Guide 2010/11
  - Peatland Leaflets
    - From Peat to Global Warming
    - Land Management & Water Colour
    - Living History
    - Peatlands and flooding
  - Policy and Planning
    - Documents set out to guide planning and design in the AONB
    - Guidance for the Management and Maintenance of Roads in the AONB
    - North Pennines AONB Geodiversity Action Plan 2010 - 2015
    - North Pennines AONB Management Plan 2009-14
  - Walking Guides
    - Along the river bank
    - Cow Green Geological Trail
    - Derwent Reservoir and Pow Hill Country Park
    - Discover Mid Teesdale
    - Discover Open Country in the North Pennines AONB
    - Explore the woods at Allen Banks and Staward Gorge
    - Geology and landscape around Blanchland
    - Hay Time Walk 1, Allendale
    - Hay Time Walk 2, Weardale
    - Hay Time Walk 3, Baldersdale
    - Holwick Scar & Low Force Geological Trail
    - Knock Geological Trail
    - Newbiggin and the Carriers' Way
    - Open Access in the North Pennines
    - Over the hill to Cowbyre Farm
    - Slitt Wood Geotrail
    - Tynehead Geological Trail
    - Walks from Allendale Caravan Park: Allendale and River East Allen (Route 1)
    - Walks from Allendale Caravan Park: Oakpool and East Allen (Route 2)
    - Walks from Allendale Caravan Park: Stone Stile (Route 3)
    - Whitley Castle
- The AONB Partnership
  - AONB Staff Unit
- The Environment
  - Staff Unit Environmental Policy
- What's New?
  - A taste of the North Pennines
  - All aboard the 'time train' for lessons on the North Pennines' past
  - Be part of North Pennines water voles' survival
  - Conference will rid peatlands of ''Cinderella Habitat' image
  - Discover diversity with this summer's North Pennines events
  - Discover our marvellous hay meadows at free exhibition
  - English Heritage Chair sees rescued North Pennines 'icons'
  - Enjoy the beauty of Westgate Chapel over Heritage Open Days
  - Find out what's special about the North Pennines at free August events
  - Get your share of summer fun at free events
  - Hay meadows are reaping the success of volunteers' hard work
  - Help collect vital peatbog data
  - Help uncover secrets of the North Pennines
  - Here comes summer - and the North Pennines News!
  - It's troubadour poet 'verses' the elements in journey through the North Pennines
  - News archive - past What's New? press releases
    - A feast for the senses on September walks in the North Pennines
    - A taste of the North Pennines
    - Allenheads Goes On Strike!
    - Alston school pupils benefit from UNESCO European Geopark Youth Camp
    - Annual Report published by North Pennines AONB Partnership
    - Are you a poet and don't know it? Find out at free North Pennines sessions
    - Are you a poet and don't know it? Find out at free North Pennines workshop
    - Are you a poet and don't know it? Find out at free workshops
    - Are you sitting comfortably? Then Ales and Tales will begin again!
    - Are you Wild About the North Pennines?
    - Artists join forces to create North Pennines in sound and vision
    - Awards for North Pennines dry stone walling apprentices
    - Bright ideas for Christmas!
    - Brilliant response to Christmas lights amnesty
    - Call for voices of North Pennine quarrymen wanting to be heard
    - Celebrate spring with the Weardale Way discovery walk
    - Celebrating the History of Hay Time in the North Pennines AONB
    - Contractors needed for hay meadow restoration work
    - Discover the delights of the North Pennines AONB by Public Transport
    - Draft North Pennines AONB Management Plan (2009-14) Consultation Period Starts
    - Dry stone wallers build on firm foundations
    - Enjoy a day of free family fun
    - Explore behind the scenes of a grouse moor in the North Pennines
    - Explore behind the scenes of a North Pennines grouse moor
    - Explore Teesdale's past for free over heritage open days weekend
    - Families celebrate an early spring at broadleaf woodland tree planting event
    - Find out about your past - and how it's being preserved for the future
    - First Ales and Tales night had a happy ending!
    - 'Flying doctors' come to the rescue of rare Pennine Way flowers
    - Free events in Teesdale for the Easter holidays
    - 'Go Grow!' in the marvellous hay meadows
    - 'Going for Green' in the North Pennines
    - Grants available to GREEN tourism businesses in the North Pennines AONB
    - Great ideas can become reality with new North Pennines funding
    - Greening Business in the North Pennines
    - Hauling logs is a breeze for a horse whose name means 'hurricane'
    - Hay Time Weekend in the North Pennines
    - Help collect the memories of the hard winters of the past
    - Help tell the story of the Hartside Packhorse Route
    - Hexham children track down story in stone
    - High time for Hay Time: £270,000 in grants awarded to help conserve North Pennines hay meadows
    - History and hay meadows highlighted in two free guided walks
    - Hooky and Proggy North Pennines Rocks and Landscapes in Fabrics and Fibres!
    - It's your place... so tell us about it in film
    - Join Robin's merry band at Woodland Magic and Mystery day
    - JOURNEYS AROUND THE WORLD! play promises to be a riot of fun for kids as Middleton joins Heritage Open Days
    - Learn how to get history 'on the record' at Blanchland event
    - Learn how to uncover your roots at free family history session
    - Learn to record the memories of times gone by
    - Learning in the Woods is just Magic!
    - Let's Rock in the North Pennines AONB and European Geopark
    - Locals can help water voles make North Pennines comeback
    - Make a Silk Paper Meadow in the North Pennines AONB
    - Meadow Management Workshops in the North Pennines
    - Mineral mini-breaks on offer in the North Pennines
    - Museum visitors can help the peatlands combat climate change
    - New painting breaks available in the North Pennines AONB
    - New Publication Brings Stanhope Fossil Tree to Life
    - New walks leaflets are a breath of fresh air
    - No stone left unturned to make Northern Rocks a fortnight of fun!
    - North Pennines AONB at its best in new calendar
    - North Pennines AONB blows its own trumpet at free concerts
    - North Pennines AONB Partnership announces date of 2008 Annual Forum
    - North Pennines AONB Partnership endorses Stop The Drop campaign
    - North Pennines AONB Partnership Supporting Local Business
    - North Pennines AONB 'Tourism Leaflet Swap'
    - North Pennines farmers can have hay meadows surveyed for free
    - North Pennines Peatland restoration to combat climate change begins
    - Old tales with a new twist at storytelling nights
    - Peat matters: Award for North Pennines initiative
    - Puppetry Rocks the North Pennines
    - Quality Meat initiative launches in Weardale
    - Rocks and landscape in fabrics and fibres!
    - Soays get crackin' on the bracken
    - Spring and summer edition of North Pennines News published
    - Spring cleaning plea for hay time artefacts
    - Stop barking up the wrong tree!
    - Stride out or stroll: walkers can choose from two North Pennines days
    - Successful peatland restoration season draws to a close
    - Swap old Xmas lights for low energy LEDs at Hamsterley Forest!
    - Taster days offer traditional techniques
    - Three million pound Project Gets Go Ahead in North Pennines
    - Tourism businesses meet to swap info
    - Upland bird walks gets North Pennines events off to a flying start
    - Visit Hannah's Meadow
    - Volunteers challenge climate change with 'groundbreaking' research
    - Volunteers needed for water vole survey
    - Volunteers needed to help record hay time histories
    - Weardale Quality Meat on the Menu!
    - What a Beauty! North Pennines AONB is 'ale' and hearty at 21 years old
    - What's that buzzing in the meadow? Find out at North Pennines workshops
    - When the going gets tough, the horses get going!
    - Win a holiday in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
    - Wood you believe it! Middleton School takes top forestry award
    - Wool weekend could help you unwind - or healing plant course could be a tonic!
    - Work begins on banks of East Allen to create 'des-res' homes for water voles
    - Work gets underway to save AONB's 'Legacies on the Landscape'
    - Work is underway to establish more broadleaf woodland in Teesdale
    - Young people voice their feelings for their community in pictures
    - Youngsters plant for the future with woodland project
    - Youngsters take a LEAP into learning in the North Pennines
    - Your hay meadows need you! More seed collecting volunteers wanted
  - North Pennines wins £109,500 of funding for heritage trainees
  - Peatbog restoration success despite severe winter snows
  - Step into the industrial past on Northern Rocks guided walks
  - Step off the beaten track this summer
  - Two new faces and a 'new look' for AONB Partnership
  - Walking, walling and wallowing in nostalgia!
  - Your chance to play a part in the North Pennines AONB
- Where is the North Pennines?
- Wildlife Recording
  - Cuckoos and oil beetles - surveys from spring 2010
Exploring
- Area Guides
  - Alston Moor & East Fellside
  - Derwent Valley
  - South Tyne & the Allen Valleys
  - Teesdale
  - Weardale
- Art and the Landscape
- Attractions
  - Ark on the Edge
  - Beamish Museum
  - Bowlees Visitor Centre
  - Durham Dales Centre
  - Eggleston Hall Gardens
  - Geltsdale RSPB Nature Reserve
  - Hamsterley Forest
  - Harehope Quarry Project
  - High Force Waterfall
  - Killhope Museum
  - Moor House-Upper Teesdale National Nature Reserve
  - Nenthead Mines Heritage Centre
  - Newbiggin Methodist Chapel
  - Raby Castle
  - Rheged Discovery Centre
  - South Tynedale Railway
  - The Bowes Museum
  - The Garden Station
  - The Hub Museum
  - Weardale Museum and High House Chapel
  - Weardale Railway
- Codes of Conduct
  - Countryside Code
    - Advice for land managers
    - Be safe - plan ahead & follow any signs
    - Consider other people
    - Keep dogs under close control
    - Leave gates and property as you find them
    - Protect plants and animals, and take your litter home
  - Moorland Visitor's Code
    - Be safe - plan ahead and follow any signs
    - Consider other people
    - Keep dogs under close control
    - Leave gates and property as you find them
    - Prevent uncontrolled moorland fires
    - Protect plants and animals, and take your litter home
- Events, Festivals and Shows
  - AONB Events Programme 2010
    - Doon the Waggonway
    - Easter Egg Cache Hunt
    - Hay - What's all the Fuss?
    - Spring Day at Bowlees
    - Travel back in time
    - Woodland Magic & Mystery
  - Flora of the Fells Festival 2010
  - Northern Rocks Festival 2010
  - Other events & activities in the North Pennines
  - Poems & Pints with Simon Armitage at Langdon Beck
    - Garrigill reading
- Getting here... Getting around
- Green Tourism
  - Be a 'Green' Visitor
  - Green businesses
    - Allendale Caravan Park
    - Assay House & Mill Cottage Bunkhouses
    - Beckleshele Cottage
    - Blackton Grange
    - Boot and Shoe Cottage
    - Bradley Burn Cottages
    - Brignall Mill Holiday Cottage
    - Brokenheugh Lodge & Orchard Barn
    - Carrs Farm Bunkhouse
    - Cromer House Camping Barn
    - Deneholme Residential & Conference Centre
    - Dowfold House B&B
    - East Briscoe Farm Cottages
    - Four Wynds Guesthouse
    - Langley Castle Hotel
    - Low Cornriggs Farm
    - Lowbyer Manor Country House
    - Milburn Grange Holiday Cottages
    - Newlands Hall B&B
    - Pasture Cottage
    - Pennine Painting Art Holidays
    - Rock House Estate
    - Sanctuary Barn
    - The Miners Arms
    - The Redbrick Barn
    - Tottergill Farm Cottages
    - YHA Dufton
    - YHA Ninebanks
- Local Produce & Products
  - Allen Mill Mini Farmers' Market
  - Barnard Castle Farmers' Market
  - Brampton Farmers' Market
  - Brough Farmers' Market
  - Greenhead Farmers' Market
  - Hexham Farmers' Market
  - Middleton Farmers' Market
  - Penrith Farmers' Market
  - Stanhope Farmers' Market
- Nature, Wildlife & Earth Heritage
  - Birdwatching in the North Pennines
  - Earth Heritage
    - Teesdale Time Trail
- North Pennines Pocket Guide 2010/11
- Outdoor Activities
  - Accessible Countryside
  - Cycling
    - Cycle Hire, Repair & Shops
    - Cycling Holidays & Support Services
    - Follow the Packhorse Trails!
    - Sea to Sea (C2C) Cycle Route
    - Wheels to the Wild Cycle Route
  - Fishing
  - Horse Riding
    - Follow the Packhorse Trails!
    - Hamsterley Riding School
    - Raygill Riding Centre
    - Sinderhope Trekking Centre
    - West Hoppyland Trekking Centre
  - Walking
    - Dogs in the North Pennines
    - Isaac's Tea Trail
    - Open Access
    - South Tyne Trail
    - Wainwright's Pennine Journey
    - Warcop Training Area
  - Water Sports
- Tourist Information Centres
  - Alston TIC
  - Appleby TIC
  - Barnard Castle TIC
  - Bishop Auckland TIC
  - Brampton TIC
  - Corbridge TIC
  - Haltwhistle TIC
  - Hexham TIC
  - Kirkby Stephen TIC
  - Middleton-in-Teesdale TIC
  - Penrith TIC
  - Rheged TIC
  - Stanhope TIC
- Where to Stay
Special Qualities
- Archaeology
  - Anglo-Saxon and Viking (c 410 - 1066)
  - Iron Age (c800BC - AD80)
  - Medieval (1066 - 1550)
  - Post-medieval (1550 - 1900)
  - Roman (cAD80 - AD410)
  - The Bronze Age (c2,000 - 800BC)
  - The Stone Age (c10,000 - 2,000 BC)
- Biodiversity
  - Moorlands
  - Natural Areas
  - Protected Areas
  - Rivers and wetlands
  - Trees and woodlands
  - Upland birds
    - Birds of open water
    - Birds of rivers and streams
    - Birds of scrub, scree and crag
    - Birds of the high moors
    - Black Grouse Watching Code of Conduct
    - Grassland birds
    - The Birdwatchers' Code of Conduct
    - The black grouse
    - Woodland birds
  - Upland hay meadows
    - Five good reasons to care about upland hay meadows
- Geology and Landscape
  - Deserts and Floods
  - Layers in the Landscape
  - Legacy of the Ice Age
  - Limestone Landscapes
  - Minerals and Mines
  - The Deep Roots of the Landscape
  - The Whin Sill
Special Projects
- Altogether Archaeology
- Geodiversity initiatives
  - Rock Detectives Clubs
  - Sounds of Killhope inspire school's art
- Hay Time - North Pennines
  - Early monitoring results for Hay Time
  - Hay - what's all the fuss?
  - Hay Time Discovery Days
  - Hay Time History Roadshows
  - Seeds for Change
  - The history of hay making in the North Pennines
  - The History of Hay Time Exhibition 2008
- Living North Pennines
  - In the Footsteps of Pack Ponies
  - Learning in the North Pennines
  - Our North Pennines Stories
    - A Winter's Dale
    - Cross Fell Commoners
    - Download your audio guide to Derwent Reservoir and Pow Hill Country Park here!
    - Ear to Ground Eye to Sky
    - It's My Place
    - Subtitled video guide to Derwent Reservoir and Pow Hill Country Park
    - Watch your video guide to Derwent Reservoir and Pow Hill Country Park here!
    - Welcome to Derwent Reservoir and Pow Hill Country Park!
  - Places to live, Places to Work
    - Muggleswick Grange, County Durham
    - Ninebanks Tower, Northumberland
    - Shildon Engine House, Blanchland, Northumberland
    - Whitesyke and Bentyfield mines, near Alston, Cumbria
  - Rivers and Reservoirs
    - Reporting signs and sightings
    - Volunteering for water vole survey work
    - Water vole distribution in the North Pennines
  - Woodlands - Small but Perfectly Formed
    - Planting trees beats the freeze!
- Peatscapes
  - Celebration of Peatlands
  - Completed Research Projects
  - Monitoring
  - Moorland Tracks
  - Promotion of Best Practice
  - Research
  - Restoration

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