The geology of national parks in Britain strongly influences the landscape character of each of the fifteen such areas which have been designated. There are ten national parks in England, three in Wales and two in Scotland. Ten of these were established in England and Wales in the 1950s under the provisions of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949. With one exception, all of these first ten, together with the two Scottish parks were centred on upland or coastal areas formed from Palaeozoic rocks. The exception is the North York Moors National Park which is formed from sedimentary rocks of Jurassic age.
Three new national parks have been created in lowland England since the late 1980s, these being the Broads, South Downs and New Forest national parks. (Strictly speaking the Broads was not created as a national park but the Broads Authority has since adopted the name for marketing purposes.) The landscape of these areas reflects the fact that they are all established on rocks and sediments of Mesozoic and Cenozoic age.[1]
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