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For a small island, Britain has a good number of national parks. Which of the following scenic areas is NOT a national park?

The Welsh Marches. This is the area around the Welsh/English border. Some of the area is beautiful, but it is not, as a whole, National Park material.

Which was the first of Britain's National Parks?

The Peak District. Created in 1951, the Peak District National Park is also the most visited - quite rightly so, in my humble opinion.

Landscape features often preserve local language or dialect words. Which of the following is NOT a word for a valley or hollow of some kind?

Fell. It is an upland area in the Lake District. The others are used for a hollow or valley in the Isle of Wight (Chine), the West Country (or the South Downs) (Combe) and Yorkshire or Derbyshire (Dale).

Which is the highest Youth Hostel in the Peak District?

Bretton. At about 1250 feet above sea level, it has fantastic views in good weather.

"The valley is gone and the Gods with it, and now every fool in Buxton can be at Bakewell in half an hour and every fool in Bakewell in Buxton; which you think a lucrative process of exchange - you Fools everywhere" - John Ruskin famously penned this diatribe against a viaduct built across what Derbyshire Dale?

Monsal Dale. Funnily enough, with the passage of time, it's now seen as a valuable part of our heritage, and seems to blend in with the scenery perfectly. Of the others, Edale is not a dale, just the name of a village.

If you walk the South Downs Way from east to west, you start by a steep climb up to Beachy Head - from which town?

Eastbourne. Brighton lies a few miles further west, and not quite on the SDW. Winchester lies at the western end, and Hastings is further east still than Eastbourne, and not on the SDW at all.

What is the name of the eighth-century earthwork which runs close to the Welsh/English border for many miles?

Offa's Dyke. Parts of the National trail which follows the dyke make a good walk. Other sections of the 177-mile route can be a bit of a slog.

If you walk in the Yorkshire Dales, you won't go very far without seeing "clints" and "grikes". What are these?

The lumps and crevices in limestone pavements. Limestone pavements are found in many areas of the Dales, especially near Malham and the Three Peaks area. They are spectacular to see, but can be hard work to walk on.

The Emperor Fountain, which was at one time (may still be, for all I know) the highest unpumped fountain in Europe, can be seen in the grounds of which English stately home?

Chatsworth House. It is driven purely by gravity, the water coming from the Emperor Lake above it. When the fountain is running, it can be seen several miles away.

Finally - if you are out and about in a British winter, you need to be careful to keep warm. Which of the following IS an acceptable emergency treatment for someone with hypothermia?

Put them in a sleeping bag (preferably with someone else!). Depending on who the other inhabitant of the sleeping bag is, this will probably make them forget how ill they feel, too! All the others are wrong for the same reason: the treatment described would increase their rate of circulation, and this is exactly what you DON'T want to do in a case of hypothermia, as it just increases the rate at which the blood is cooled by passing through their extremities. The main object is to warm them up, so sharing body heat, lighting a fire, a hot drink (no alcohol or caffeine, though) or all acceptable.