An Important Landscape

The South Pennines landscape is one of stark contrasts: vast tracts of open moorland intersected by steep, wooded valleys; the areas in between softened by a subtle patchwork of hamlets and fields. The landscape today is a combined result of geology and human endeavour – enabling the visitor to trace the history of the South Pennines from the ice age to the industrial revolution.  The award-winning Watershed Landscape project has a wealth of information and resources about this important habitat, its wildlife and the many creative people who have been inspired by the South Pennines.