More than £1 million has been awarded to a project to preserve and protect the unique landscape and heritage of the Lower Severn Vale Levels between Avonmouth and Lawrence Weston in Bristol.
The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has announced that a partnership of private and public organisations, hosted by South Gloucestershire Council, has been granted £1,017,200 for the three-and-a-half year landscape partnership project ‘A Forgotten Landscape’.
The project will start in January 2015 and aims to restore the heritage of part of the Lower Severn Vale Levels - a term used to describe the coastal region alongside the Severn Estuary between Avonmouth and Lawrence Weston in Bristol and the county boundary with Gloucestershire.
The project will restore a range of wildlife habitats across the area to benefit its rich array of wildlife, including wetlands, hedges, wildflower grassland and orchards.
It will also help communities and people interact with the natural heritage of the Levels and estuary through a range of volunteer programmes including wildlife identification classes, training in traditional skills such as coppicing, pollarding and hedge-laying and the promotion of traditional practices such as salt marsh grazing and cider making.
The project will also provide new learning opportunities for school children and wider age groups and aims to increase public access to the Levels landscape by rail, bike and on foot, advertising and promoting its heritage features for people and communities living in the area and outside it.
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