National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949

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Snowdonia National Park , one of the parks created under this law.

The National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 ( German  " Law of 1949 on National Parks and Access to the countryside " ) is a British Act of 18 March 1949, which, among others, the creation of national parks envisaged and with the National Parks Commission a Organization to watch over nature conservation in the UK.

Under the law, the UK created ten national parks in the 1950s, and more of the UK's national parks followed later . In the following years, based on the law, the National Parks Commission also created Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty , land areas with a similar importance to national parks but less direct protection and influence of nature conservation.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Jane Grenville: Managing the historic rural landscape , pp. 45-46.

literature

  • Tom Stephenson, Ann Holt, Mike Harding: Forbidden land: the struggle for access to mountain and moorland . Manchester University Press ND, Manchester 1989, ISBN 071902966X , pp. 206-217.