Glyndŵr National Park

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Glyndŵr National Park (Welsh: Parc Cenedlaethol Glyndŵr) is a proposed national park which, if approved, will be located in the north-east of Wales. The park is intended to replace the Clwydian Range and Dee Valley, a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), and expand the area of protected landscape. The proposed name is taken from Owain Glyndŵr, who was from north-east Wales and the last native Welsh person to claim the title Prince of Wales.

The 1947 Hobhouse Report suggested that the Clwydian and Berwyn ranges of hills should be protected, but it was not until 1985 that the Clwydian Range AONB was established. The possibility of making the range a national park was debated by the Welsh Assembly (now the Senedd) in 2010, but did not progress further. In 2011, the AONB was extended to include the Dee Valley, which includes the northernmost part of the Berwyn range.

The proposal was revived in 2021, when Welsh Labour committed to designating a new national park to cover the Clwydian Range and Dee Valley. Following the party's victory in that year's Senedd election, the Welsh Government commissioned Natural Resources Wales (NRW) to develop proposals for the national park...