Thursday, September 8, 2016

UK ~ The Yorkshire Dales National Park ~

... Two more beautiful cards coming from England...National Park nr4 to add to my collection....this one shows beautiful views of England second most largest Park...not only a Big Thanks Andrene for this new NP postcard but especially  for using the ♥sweetest♥ stamps ever from one of my all time favorite writers and illustrators, Beatrix Potter...was hoping to get them on a postcard since they where issued...乂。●́‿●̀。乂
  
Kettlewell     Hawes   Skyreholme
Gunnerside    Whernside    Clapham
Malham    Aysgarth    Arncliffe

The Yorkshire Dales is an upland area of the Pennines in Northern England in the historic county of Yorkshire. This National Park is a 2,178 km2 (841 sq mi) national park in North Yorkshire, Cumbria and Lancashire.

The Yorkshire Dales was the eighth National Park to be created in 1954. On 1 August 2016, the National Park officially grew by nearly a quarter, with an extra  417 km (2 161 square miles).

The National Park contains 1,714 listed buildings and 203 scheduled monuments, over 20,000 residents live and work in the park.

Stamps:

The 150th Anniversary of the Birth of Beatrix Potter, 1866-1943 
"The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle"

(Issued 28-07-2016)

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