South Downs National Park

South Downs National Park
IUCN category V (protected landscape/seascape)
View of the South Downs from Devil's Dyke
Map of the South Downs National Park
Location	United Kingdom (South East England)
Coordinates	50°54′40″N 0°22′01″W / 50.911°N 0.367°W / 50.911; -0.367
Length	140 km (87 mi)
Width	11.2 km (7.0 mi)
Area	1,627 km2 (628 sq mi)
Established	1 April 2010
Visitors	16 million
Governing body	South Downs National Park Authority
Website	www.southdowns.gov.uk

The South Downs National Park is England's newest national park, designated on 31 March 2010.^[1] The park, covering an area of 1,627 square kilometres (628 sq mi) in southern England, stretches for 140 kilometres (87 mi) from Winchester in the west to Eastbourne in the east through the counties of Hampshire, West Sussex and East Sussex. The national park covers the chalk hills of the South Downs (which on the English Channel coast form the white cliffs of the Seven Sisters and Beachy Head) and a substantial part of a separate physiographic region, the western Weald, with its heavily wooded sandstone and clay hills and vales. The South Downs Way spans the entire length of the park and is the only National Trail that lies wholly within a national park.