Save our heritage
SOME of Northamptonshire's most recognisable landmarks will be protected for future generations to enjoy, following a cash windfall of £371,700.
The money will see the launch of a new project set up to support communities, landowners and councils in protecting Northamptonshire’s heritage.
Over the next three years the Rose of the Shires project will work with 30 communities in six area, recording their historic surroundings and helping to protect these features for future generations.
Stuart Taylor, of the Rockingham Forest Trust which is spearheading the project, said: “Northamptonshire is experiencing rapid change and growth and we need to make sure that it still maintains its character and distinctiveness for the future.
“This is an exciting opportunity for these communities to have an active role in managing their local heritage, establishing a framework that could also be used in other areas of the county.”
As well as studying the development of each settlement, the work will record other evidence of the past, such as enclosures, field patterns, woodland, hedgerows and earthworks.
The project will be using recently created data that enables reconstruction of Northamptonshire’s land use and settlements over the past 700 years, the only county in the UK that has this mapping.
The work will be delivered by a team that includes historians and landscape archaeologists, providing a programme of presentations, workshops and other activities in each area.
The project will also involve communities in discovering more about their history and will work with local schools.
The studies carried out with communities will be written up in detailed reports, assessing the condition and survival of the various historic elements and including recommendations for their future management.
In its first year, the project will work with local parishes around Naseby, looking at the site of the Civil War battle.
Other areas to be involved are around Althorp, Fawsley and Earls Barton.
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