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PARTNERSHIP BIODIVERSITY BIODIVERSITY DURHAM DURHAM along the way. the along Collect wildlife rubbings rubbings wildlife Collect sculptures and waymarkers. waymarkers. and sculptures birds and animals, intriguing intriguing animals, and birds Public Transport contact Traveline 0870 6082608 0870 Traveline contact Transport Public look out for a wide range of of range wide a for out look Great North Forest contact 0191 4606200 0191 contact Forest North Great Follow a 7 mile trail and and trail mile 7 a Follow Kibblesworth Environment Centre contact 0191 4111375 0191 contact Centre Environment Kibblesworth Watergate Forest Park contact 0191 4604696 0191 contact Park Forest Watergate past Burdon Moor. Moor. Burdon past Burdon Moor contact 0191 4333443 0191 contact Moor Burdon For Further Information on…. Information Further For Environment Centre Centre Environment Park and Kibblesworth Kibblesworth and Park cast them in gunmetal and attached them to each waymarker. each to them attached and gunmetal in them cast between Watergate Forest Forest Watergate between seen onto clay tiles. Jim picked the six best designs from each school, school, each from designs best six the picked Jim tiles. clay onto seen route and then worked with Jim to draw images of wildlife they had had they wildlife of images draw to Jim with worked then and route meadows and heathland heathland and meadows Kibblesworth and Washingwell. A class from each school visited the the visited school each from class A Washingwell. and Kibblesworth Jim worked with 4 local primary schools – Lobley Hill, Marley Hill, Hill, Marley Hill, Lobley – schools primary local 4 with worked Jim Wander through woods, woods, through Wander The Schools The these blocks. these school children and added to each marker. Rubbings can be taken from from taken be can Rubbings marker. each to added and children school the route. Metal blocks showing local wildlife were designed by local local by designed were wildlife local showing blocks Metal route. the featuring silhouettes of some of the most common plants seen along along seen plants common most the of some of silhouettes featuring Waymarkers. Working in metal, Jim produced the waymarkers waymarkers the produced Jim metal, in Working Waymarkers. Jim Bond, an artist from Yorkshire, was chosen to create the the create to chosen was Yorkshire, from artist an Bond, Jim The Artist The Trail Artistic Waymarked Waymarked Artistic starting point via Gateshead Interchange. Gateshead via point starting Survey Explorer maps 308 and 316. Bus routes can return you to your your to you return can routes Bus 316. and 308 maps Explorer Survey Moor Moor your walk you should use this leafl et in confunction with Ordnance Ordnance with confunction in et leafl this use should you walk your in places, so please where appropriate footwear. To get the most from from most the get To footwear. appropriate where please so places, in Back Burdon Burdon Back Bowes and Tanfi eld Railway Paths. It is mostly fl at but it can be muddy muddy be can it but at fl mostly is It Paths. Railway eld Tanfi and Bowes Kibblesworth Environment Centre. The route is an easy walk along the the along walk easy an is route The Centre. Environment Kibblesworth You can start the waymarked trail from either Watergate Forest Park or or Park Forest Watergate either from trail waymarked the start can You Bringing Bringing The Trail The Bringing Back Burdon Moor: A Heathland Re-creation Project Lowland heaths once covered most of England but in the last 200 years 80% of these have been lost. The habitat is so scarse that in Tyne and Wear only an area the size of 3 football pitches remains. Snipe Gateshead Council has a long term vision to create a lowland heath at Burdon Moor to develop a special place for people and nature. To Sunniside Trees eld Railway PathTanfi Trees planted include silver Bringing Back Burdon Moor Site Tree Ponds planting birch and Scots pine. Look out for curlew, lapwing, redshank, snipe and grey heron on the many new Path proposed 2004 ponds created. Lapwing Tree Trail Wear and Tyne planting Curlew Burdon Plain Site of former Pond Blackburn Fell Heron Drift Mine Bus Tree P Stops planting Pond Birds Pond Look out for farmland Pond Art birds like skylark and A local group, the Kibblesworth lapwing. Pond Pond Karvers, produced the two Totem Footpath totem poles. Poles Three boulders were decorated Tree with ceramic plants and animals inspired by the work of Ernie’s Wood planting Redshank local people. Tanfi eldTanfi Railway A6076 Wavy hairgrass To Plants Footpath to Heathlands are made up of low and slow growing Kibblesworth Hedley Hall Small evergreen shrubs, notably heathers (ling). Wood Look out for other shrubs like gorse and brrom. heath In the future we may see species like harebell, butterfl y knapweed, heath bedstraw, heath milkwort and Insects Ling tormentil. Butterfl ies like small heath and common Gorse The gorse scrub will support yellowhammer, linnet blue may be seen. Other insects will and you may see short-eared owls hunting during include dragonfl ies, grasshoppers and the day over the heathlands. solitary bees. Bringing Back Burdon Moor is a Gateshead Council project in partnership with the Great North Forest, The Countryside Agency, Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Northumbrian Water Environmental Trust and Durham Wildlife Trust. PARTNERSHIP BIODIVERSITY BIODIVERSITY DURHAM DURHAM along the way. the along Collect wildlife rubbings rubbings wildlife Collect sculptures and waymarkers. waymarkers. and sculptures birds and animals, intriguing intriguing animals, and birds Public Transport contact Traveline 0870 6082608 0870 Traveline contact Transport Public look out for a wide range of of range wide a for out look Great North Forest contact 0191 4606200 0191 contact Forest North Great Follow a 7 mile trail and and trail mile 7 a Follow Kibblesworth Environment Centre contact 0191 4111375 0191 contact Centre Environment Kibblesworth Watergate Forest Park contact 0191 4604696 0191 contact Park Forest Watergate past Burdon Moor. Moor. Burdon past Burdon Moor contact 0191 4333443 0191 contact Moor Burdon For Further Information on…. Information Further For Environment Centre Centre Environment Park and Kibblesworth Kibblesworth and Park cast them in gunmetal and attached them to each waymarker. each to them attached and gunmetal in them cast between Watergate Forest Forest Watergate between seen onto clay tiles. Jim picked the six best designs from each school, school, each from designs best six the picked Jim tiles. clay onto seen route and then worked with Jim to draw images of wildlife they had had they wildlife of images draw to Jim with worked then and route meadows and heathland heathland and meadows Kibblesworth and Washingwell. A class from each school visited the the visited school each from class A Washingwell. and Kibblesworth Jim worked with 4 local primary schools – Lobley Hill, Marley Hill, Hill, Marley Hill, Lobley – schools primary local 4 with worked Jim Wander through woods, woods, through Wander The Schools The these blocks. these school children and added to each marker. Rubbings can be taken from from taken be can Rubbings marker. each to added and children school the route. Metal blocks showing local wildlife were designed by local local by designed were wildlife local showing blocks Metal route. the featuring silhouettes of some of the most common plants seen along along seen plants common most the of some of silhouettes featuring Waymarkers. Working in metal, Jim produced the waymarkers waymarkers the produced Jim metal, in Working Waymarkers. Jim Bond, an artist from Yorkshire, was chosen to create the the create to chosen was Yorkshire, from artist an Bond, Jim The Artist The Trail Artistic Waymarked Waymarked Artistic starting point via Gateshead Interchange. Gateshead via point starting Survey Explorer maps 308 and 316. Bus routes can return you to your your to you return can routes Bus 316. and 308 maps Explorer Survey Moor Moor your walk you should use this leafl et in confunction with Ordnance Ordnance with confunction in et leafl this use should you walk your in places, so please where appropriate footwear. To get the most from from most the get To footwear. appropriate where please so places, in Back Burdon Burdon Back Bowes and Tanfi eld Railway Paths. It is mostly fl at but it can be muddy muddy be can it but at fl mostly is It Paths. Railway eld Tanfi and Bowes Kibblesworth Environment Centre. The route is an easy walk along the the along walk easy an is route The Centre. Environment Kibblesworth You can start the waymarked trail from either Watergate Forest Park or or Park Forest Watergate either from trail waymarked the start can You Bringing Bringing The Trail The Bringing Back Burdon Moor: A Heathland Re-creation Project Lowland heaths once covered most of England but in the last 200 years 80% of these have been lost. The habitat is so scarse that in Tyne and Wear only an area the size of 3 football pitches remains. Snipe Gateshead Council has a long term vision to create a lowland heath at Burdon Moor to develop a special place for people and nature. To Sunniside Trees eld Railway PathTanfi Trees planted include silver Bringing Back Burdon Moor Site Tree Ponds planting birch and Scots pine. Look out for curlew, lapwing, redshank, snipe and grey heron on the many new Path proposed 2004 ponds created. Lapwing Tree Trail Wear and Tyne planting Curlew Burdon Plain Site of former Pond Blackburn Fell Heron Drift Mine Bus Tree P Stops planting Pond Birds Pond Look out for farmland Pond Art birds like skylark and A local group, the Kibblesworth lapwing. Pond Pond Karvers, produced the two Totem Footpath totem poles.