| PENNINES | North -; region of heather moorland and wooded valleys in northern England, designated an AONB in 1988 (8) |
| COTSWOLDS | Characterised by dry-stone walls, limestone cottages, rolling hills and wooded valleys, the largest AONB (9) |
| BATH | Spa town of SW England designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1987 (4) |
| HEATH | Moorland and an ericaceous shrub found on it (5) |
| DINGLE | Some strolled in glen and wooded valley (6) |
| TEMPE | Wooded valley in Thessaly between the mountains Olympus and Ossa. (5) |
| VALE | Term for a broad valley in northern England (4) |
| DALE | Valley, in northern England |
| DENE | Wooded valley ... in Howden Edge (4) |
| DARTMOOR | National Park and AONB in Devon, site of Castle Drogo and several menhirs or standing stones including that in Drizzlecombe (8) |
| ARNSIDE | ... and Silverdale, AONB in NW England - sort of sandier (7) |
| COPPERHEAD | A venomous snake found in swampy, rocky, and wooded regions of the eastern and central United States that is named for its reddish head color. |
| CANNOCK | - Chase; AONB in Staffordshire, formerly a royal hunting ground (7) |
| MERLIN | Known collectively as an illusion and sometimes laying its eggs in an old crow's nest, a falcon or "pigeon hawk" of heather moorland that is the UK's smallest bird of prey (6) |
| WYE | Immortalised in paintings by J. M. W. Turner and a poem by William Wordsworth, a river and a valley of the same name in an AONB containing Tintern Abbey and Symonds Yat (3) |
| GROUSE | Red -; Galliform of heather moorland used as the emblem of a brand of whisky and the journal British Birds (6) |
| NSA | Scottish equivalent of an AONB; also an org. representing UK sheep producers - in Seton Sands (3) |
| YANA | A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California. |
| YNYSMON | Welsh name for Anglesey, an island with a coastline declared an AONB, home to the longest place name in Britain (4,3) |
| CRANBORNE | Chase; rising to its highest point at Win Green, an AONB forming part of the West Wiltshire Downs (9) |
