If you ask us, ranking Britain’s national parks by their levels of beauty is a pretty impossible (and some might say foolhardy) task. After all, each one is so different, each with its own charms and specific kind of beauty. How can they really be compared?
Others, however, aren’t so shy about trying to rank the UK’s most beautiful national parks. The latest to do so is luggage storage company Bounce, which has analysed parks based on stuff like visitor reviews, Google searches and popularity on social media.
Do any of those factors really, categorically make one national park more or less beautiful than another? We’re not so sure. But Bounce totted up the results anyway, giving each park a score out of ten and creating a league table of beautiful British national parks.
Taking top spot was the Lake District, which got a perfect ten-out-of-ten score. With loads of Google searches, tonnes of social media reviews and very complimentary reviews, it was the winner by far.
Second came the Peak District, which also did well in all categories, followed by Northumberland National Park, which had great reviews despite not having as much social media clout as others lower down the list.
Here are the top ten most beautiful national parks in the UK, according to Bounce’s study.
- Lake District
- Peak District
- Northumberland
- Snowdonia
- Dartmoor
- New Forest
- Yorkshire Dales
- Brecon Beacons
- Exmoor
- Cairngorms
You can check out Bounce’s study for yourself here. But if you’re on the hunt for more guides to the UK’s many gorgeous expanses of nature, you’re already in the right place. Time Out has guides to the country’s national parks, the UK’s natural wonders, the nation’s most breath-taking hikes and the finest Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty near London.
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