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Garden & Home Directory · East

The Best Countryside in the East of England

Our pick of the best countryside in the East of England (Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Rutland), every address checked.

  1. Peak District National Park

    Derbyshire and neighbouring counties

    The UK's original national park, designated on 17 April 1951.

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  2. The Broads

    Norfolk and Suffolk

    Rivers, lakes and fens given national park status by Act of Parliament in 1988, the only member of the family with a navigation purpose too.

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  3. Norfolk Coast National Landscape

    The Wash to Winterton-on-Sea, Norfolk

    Some 453 square kilometres of chalkland, glacial moraine and coast, crossed by the Peddars Way and Norfolk Coast Path National Trails.

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  4. Suffolk & Essex Coast & Heaths National Landscape

    Stour estuary to Kessingland

    A low-lying coastal landscape of astonishing variety, covering 403 square kilometres.

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  5. Dedham Vale National Landscape

    Essex–Suffolk border

    Constable Country, made famous by John Constable's paintings, running upstream from Manningtree along the Stour.

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  6. Lincolnshire Wolds National Landscape

    Lincolnshire

    Rolling chalk hills and dry valleys over 558 square kilometres, designated in 1973.

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  7. Peddars Way and Norfolk Coast Path

    Knettishall Heath, Suffolk, and the Norfolk coast

    A National Trail joining the 46-mile Peddars Way, along a Roman road, with the 112-mile path around the Norfolk coast.

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  8. Sherwood Forest

    Edwinstowe, Nottinghamshire

    A National Nature Reserve of more than a thousand ancient oaks, among them the Major Oak, thought to be about 800 years old.

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  9. Chilterns National Landscape

    Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire

    One of the most wooded parts of England, famous for its chalk beechwoods and home to England's largest population of red kites.

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  10. Epping Forest

    Essex and north-east London

    Nearly 6,000 acres of ancient woodland in the care of the City of London since 1878, with the UK's largest collection of ancient trees.

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Checked October 2026. Opening times, prices and delivery terms change, so please check before you travel or order.

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