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Scenes from Britain's National Parks

By John Hirst

Some of the best walking in the world lies right on our doorstep. The following scenes from Britain's National Parks provide the perfect inspiration to lace up your hiking boots and get out into the open this autumn.

Looking along River Bure to Stracey Arms Mill, near Acle, one of the many windmills in Norfolk, Norfolk Broads National Park

The heathland at Rockford Common, carpeted in heather and bracken, New Forest National Park

Cows with Carreg Cennen Castle in the background

Sheep in field beside cottage in Monsal Dale, White Peak, in the Peak District National Park, Derbyshire, near Ashford in the Water

A young mountain hare peers from between the rocks at Kinder Scout, a high windswept upland gritstone plateau in the Peak District National Park, Derbyshire

Cottages stretching down to the Beaulieu River at Buckler's Hard, New Forest National Park

Looking over the peaks and countryside at Dovedale in the Peak District National Park, Derbyshire

Sgwd-Y-Eira, waterfalls in the Vale of Neath, Ystradfellte, Brecon Beacons National Park

Mountain biking beside Ladybower Reserevoir in the Peak District National Park, Derbyshire

Full post as published by prisonlawinsideout on September 12, 2008 (boomark / email).