Nominate Your Favourite Welsh Landmarks for Countryfile Awards 2019

BBC Countryfile Magazine are inviting readers to send in their suggestions of the very best of the British countryside for the BBC Countryfile Magazine Awards 2019. Nominations open from today, giving the people of Wales the chance to celebrate the counties’ mighty landmarks, outstanding national parks, beautiful nature reserves and finest rural pubs. This year there will also be a new category – Village of the Year – which is sure to be hotly contested. Place your nominations at www.countryfile.com/awards.

In the 2018 Awards, the dramatic coastline, inviting beaches and wild shores of Pembrokeshire was awarded the prestigious Holiday Destination of the Year title. What could bag the 2019 titles?

Following submissions, an expert judging panel, will gather to review all the entries, whittling down the vast number of nominees down to a shortlist of five contenders in each category. The announcement of lucky nominees will follow in in the New Year.

The nomination process opens online at www.countryfile.com/awards from October 23rd and will close on November 25^th.

 

2018 Winners are as follows:

 

National Park of the Year

1^st place: Northumberland National Park

2^nd place: Snowdonia

 

Landmark of the Year

1^st place: The Minack Theatre, Cornwall

2^nd place: High Force, County Durham

 

Beach of the Year

1^st place: Holkham Beach, Norfolk

2^nd place: Godrevy Beach, Cornwall

 

Book of the Year

1^st place: The Wainwrights in Colour by Andy Beck

2^nd place: The Secret Life of Cows by Rosamund Young

 

Country Pub of the Year

1^st place: The Fox House, Longshaw, South Yorkshire

2^nd place: The Rugglestone Inn, Widecombe in the Moor, Devon

 

Garden of the Year

1^st place: The Lost Gardens of Heligan, Cornwall

2^nd place: Bodnant Garden, Conwy

 

Holiday Destination of the Year

1^st place: Pembrokeshire Coast

2^nd place: Isle of Wight

 

Nature Reserve of the Year

1^st place: Rodley Nature Reserve, Leeds

2^nd place: RSPB Arne, Dorset

 

Conservation Project of the Year

1^st place: Great British Beach Clean

2^nd place: The Flight of the Swans, WWT

 

Reader Photo of the Year

1^st place: Model Subject by Andrew Fletcher

2^nd place: Lively Light by Chris Mole