People and Places
Barkbooth Lot Nature Reserve Featured
www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.ukBarkbooth Lot is situated near the head of the Winster Valley and includes rough fell land, oak woodland and meadow. The reserve has been extended recently, doubling its size and staff have worked to repair walls and fences and add gates. Livestock a ...
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Bee Creative Featured
www.breweryarts.co.ukBee Creative is an education project run by the Brewery Arts Centre in Kendal, aiming to increase understanding of the importance of different types of bees for the environment and our food chain. Local primary school children will get involved in scienc ...
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Clints Quarry Nature Reserve Featured
www.cumbriawildlifetrust.orgClints Quarry, a dramatic looking nature reserve with vertical cliff faces up to 20 metres high, was created when the area was quarried for limestone. The limestone was used for agriculture, building and the local steel industry but quarrying ended in 193 ...
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Cross Lakes Experience Featured
www.lakedistrict.gov.uk/crosslakesNurture Lakeland supports and promotes alternative methods of transport in the Lake District. As well as reducing congestion this project hopes to reduce carbon emissions and the effect on our climate. The Cross Lakes Experience is an integrated acces ...
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Cumbria Outdoors Sustainability Programme Featured
www.cumbriaoutdoors.comThe Cumbria Outdoors Sustainability Programme delivers hands-on environmental education to school children across Cumbria. The programme offers 3-5 day residential courses to groups of primary school children, encouraging them to think about sustainab ...
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Dorothy Farrer’s Spring Wood Featured
www.cumbriawildlifetrust.Dorothy Farrer’s Spring Wood is made up of three separate areas of woodland: High Wood, Dorothy Farrer’s Spring Wood and Beddard’s Wood. All three areas have been managed as coppice woodland in the past with timber from the coppicing used for bobbins, s ...
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Experience the River Featured
www.scrt.org.ukSouth Cumbria Rivers Trust works to protect and conserve the aquatic environments of South Cumbria. In order to achieve this they provide a local education programme aimed at giving the both the local population and visitors an appreciation of our waters ...
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Flora of the Fells Featured
www.floraofthefells.comFlora of the Fells is about getting people of all ages and backgrounds involved with Cumbria’s outstanding landscapes. Landscape, wildlife and people go hand in hand so it’s vital that people get to know and love their local area and learn how to protect ...
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Footprint Community Arts Project Featured
www.nationaltrust.org.ukThe Footprint is a unique straw bale building set in the beautiful wooded surroundings of The National Trust St Catherine’s Estate near Windermere. Four seasonal community art events will be held over the course of a year at the Footprint, aiming to give ...
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Herdy Fund Featured
www.herdy.co.ukThe Herdy fund has been set up to provide grants and funding to enterprises and organisations promoting the conservation of the Herdwick sheep and rural lifestyle associated with upland fell farming in Cumbria and the lakes. The fund will be used to suppo ...
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Lake District Osprey Project Featured
www.ospreywatch.co.ukIn 2001 ospreys made a momentous return to the Lake District, after being extinct in England for decades. The ospreys now return from Africa to their nest near Bassenthwaite Lake each spring and more than 19 chicks have fledged since they returned. The vi ...
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Miles Without Stiles Featured
www.lakedistrict.gov.ukThe Lake District has over 3000km of public paths, but only a fraction of this length is accessible to all. Those with more limited mobility find it harder to use paths that have an awkward surface, a steep gradient or stiles to get over. 'Miles Witho ...
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Penruddock Path Featured
www.lakedistrict.gov.ukA new public footpath is being created linking Penruddock village with a housing development at Station Road near Motherby. This new path will provide a safe, off-road alternative for children from Station Road to get to school in Penruddock rather than w ...
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Save our Squirrels Featured
www.saveoursquirrels.orgThe red squirrel is our only native British squirrel but is at serious risk of extinction if population numbers continue to decline. The main cause of this decline is competition with the American grey squirrel, an introduced species which is larger than ...
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Staveley Riverside Walk Featured
www.lakedistrict.gov.ukThis project is part of the National Park’s Miles Without Stiles Scheme to improve access for people with limited mobility by upgrading rights of way. This includes people in wheelchairs, parents with pushchairs and visually impaired people. The project ...
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Warton Crag Butterflies Featured
www.lancswt.org.ukWarton Crag nature reserve is part of the Arnside and Silverdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and overlooks Morecambe Bay in Lancashire. The reserve has a rich variety of habitats including areas of limestone pavement and ledges, with mixed woodland ...
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