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Location of the Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs AONB in the UK

Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) covering Шаблон:Convert of Dorset, Hampshire, Somerset and Wiltshire. It is the sixth largest AONB in England.

The area was designated as an AONB in 1981 and confirmed in October 1983.[1] Since 2014, the AONB Partnership of local authorities has used the abbreviated name Cranborne Chase AONB in its promotion of the area.[2]

The AONB includes several distinct landscape areas, among them:

Much of the landscape is farmed chalk downland. The people who populated the area thousands of years ago constructed Ackling Dyke and the Knowlton Circles. The area was later the scene of conflict in the Civil War, seeing the destruction of Old Wardour Castle. Other features include the Larmer Tree Gardens at Tollard Royal; and Fovant, where soldiers training during the First World War cut regimental badges into the chalk hillside.

The AONB includes two large blocks of woodland, Grovely Wood and Great Ridge Wood.

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