What is the oldest National Park in the UK?
Yep, think you right; think the Americans had the first ‘national parks’, Yellowstone is one which ‘springs’ to mind. Here’s some links to the UK National Parks – which by American standards are probably not much bigger than the average Texas ranch, but hey, this is a small island right? http://www.naturenet.net/status/npark.ht… http://gouk.about.com/od/tripplanning/a/… I’d just like to add one small point about all this concerning National Parks. Here in England there is no such thing as ‘virgin wilderness’. There is however what might be called ‘virgin wilderness’ in parts of the Highlands of Scotland. The land upon which my house sits, south east of London, has been farmed, ploughed, ripped up, hunted over and built upon for many thousands of years. The Roman army is still marching along one of their roads about a mile from
