The Landscape Partnership aims to promote Volunteers are an integral part of the The Landscape Partnership spans the historic and facilitate thought-provoking and unique Partnership. With the efforts and assistance boundary between and North learning experiences with the Partnership’s given by volunteers our projects will not only and is supported by a grant rich and diverse landscapes at the heart of it. be successful, but the outcomes of the from the Heritage Lottery Fund. The Learning Volunteering with us Introduction To achieve our mission of reconnecting projects will positively impact those Partnership’s aim is to reconnect people Cotton grass people with their landscape and cultural involved, residents and the local area. In with their landscape and cultural heritage, the team will deliver a programme return volunteers will receive opportunities heritage. School group of inventive and exciting events, activities to acquire new skills, attend training at Crowle Moor and workshops. sessions, workshops and events. The Partnership area covers an area of 233 square kilometres; located in the We aim to pay special attention to local Volunteering has many benefits; meeting Humberhead Levels it includes parishes schools. Creating an appetite for history and likeminded people, building confidence and in and the natural world early on will encourage a promoting wellbeing in new surroundings. Metropolitan Borough areas. set of values and inspire future generations to carry on safeguarding this important area. Volunteering can change perceptions and The Landscape Partnership seeks to create a community of caring considerate conserve the landscape heritage – both individuals who keep alive traditions. natural and cultural – in distinctive landscapes, whilst delivering benefits for Gaining skills whilst volunteering with the people within and beyond the areas the project will help to form a knowledge and Landscape Partnership covers. In skill base within local communities that in particular, it will change the way people the long term can safeguard their landscape understand, perceive and relate to the and cultural heritage after the project has landscapes they live in, work in, or visit. This project aims to tackle one of the key constraintsEducation preventing schoolchildren and finished. In doing this the Landscape Partnership transportschools using key landscape partnership To have a chat about volunteering call the scheme creates a holistic and balanced sites for educational visits from nearby support Landscape Partnership team on approach to the management of landscape communities of interest. A transport subsidy 01724 297536. heritage, helping people to connect with it, will be available to local schools and ISLE OF thereby leading to continued activity and a education providers. lasting legacy. The Landscape Partnership will offer people the skills and training to gain the experience to help deliver the individual projects outcomes, and to Thorne Moors continue to use these skills after the AXHOLME Partnership has ended. LANDSCAPE HATFIELDPARTNERSHIPCHASE Four-spotted chaser dragonfly

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The Landscape Partnership is offering a The and Hatfield Chase varied programme of project informed Landscape Partnership Community Grant The Isle of Axholme and events, training sessions, workshops and Crowle Moors can be accessed by local community groups, Landscape Partnership was awarded £1.84m Eventsactivities. Events will be available throughout Communityland owners and organisations Grant that Fund are Aboutby Heritage Lotterythe Fund,Heritage which will allow the year in various locations across the based in the ioahc project area. Lotterythe Partnership Fund to deliver 16 projects with project area. Examples of events include: match funding worth £3m. Applicants can apply for a maximum of Investigating nature - pond dipping, life £2,000. We are encouraging applicants to cycles of the dragonfly and mini-beasting. The partnership is made up of the following provide match funding to assist their organisations: Habitat management – building bird application and it is possible for volunteer • North Lincolnshire Council boxes, bird feeders, hedge laying workshops time to be included as match. • Natural • Crowle Peatland Railway Society To find out more about the Landscape >and training, improving pathways and access Partnership visit www.ioahc.net and wildlife surveying If you are interested in applying for the • Canal and River Trust Community Grant Fund contact the • Doncaster Metropolitan Council Walking events - themed walking events, Landscape Partnership or visit AboutYou can contact us a member of the > • Heritage Lincolnshire Landscape Partnership team by emailing talking walks, walking festivals, seasonal www.ioahc.net for more information. • Yorkshire Wildlife Trust [email protected] walks, bat and wildlife walks, family activity trails and guided photography walks. Thanks to National Lottery Players investing Follow us on Facebook /IoAHC Art and craft workshops – Sketching the money to help people across the UK explore, > enjoy and protect the heritage they care Tweet us @Ioahc Isle workshops, out of school activities, rock about - from the archaeology under our feet Instagram @Ioahc painting, scarecrow making, and lots more! to the historic parks and buildings we love, To learn more about the Landscape Project open days – themed days with from precious memories and collections to Partnership or to hear about upcoming rare wildlife. activities,> talks, walks and exhibitions. events scan the QR below. Heritage skills and training – fieldwalking, learn how to do a test-pit in your garden, www.hlf.org.uk documentary research, recording historic buildings.>

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Crowle Moors Over the next five years, a total of 16 individual projects From Flaxen Locks to Retting Pits – will be delivered through the Isle of Axholme and Hatfield Investigation and interpretation of the Chase Partnership. There are three themes: significant industry for flax and retting in and PartnershipPEATLANDS AND WETLANDS projects Timearound Crowle. and Place TIME AND PLACE Castles and Manors – Archaeological COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS investigations into the reputed Medieval Manor House site at Vinegarth and the land > Peatlands and Wetlands M18 surrounding St Andrew’s Church in Epworth. PW.01> Peatland Restoration on Thorne & Hatfield Moors New interpretation boards will be installed at PW.02 Keadby Warping Drain the site of Owston Castle, a scheduled Motte PW.03> Reconstructing the Wildscape PW.01 and Bailey Castle. There will also be scrub PW.03 and tree clearance around the site. This will Time and Place improve provisions for visitor access to the > local nature reserve and unveil the castle’s TP.01 From Flaxen Locks to Retting Pits Crowle true landscape character. TP.02 Castles and Manors A614 Moorends TP.03 Neolithic Trackway CC.02 Moor Neolithic Trackway – The project aims to TP.04 Crowle and Thorne Moors build a replica of the Neolithic Lindholme Peat Industrial Railway Restoration Thorne Isle of Axholme & Hatfield Chase Trackway found on Hatfield Moor in 2004. TP.05> Presenting the Past 15 17 19 21 TP.04 A161 The trackway dates back to 2900-2500BC (, Belton and ) Moor and is known as a Corduroy trackway. TP.06 Landscape of Heroes* Industrial Archaeology of the Peatlands and Community Connections its Railway – Run by the Crowle Peatland CC.01 Thorne Waterfront Canal Railway Society this project will explore the CC.02 Thorne to Crowle Moors Access Bridge CC.01 TP.01 rail and industrial history linked to Thorne CC.03 Hatfield Moor Viewing Towers and Crowle Moors. CC.04 Isle of Axholme Greenway Crowle CC.05 Third Party Grant Scheme* > Presenting the Past – A range of volunteer CC.06 Education Transport Support* Thorne PW.02 activities will allow local communities to CC.07 Activity Plan: Landscape PROJECT MAPScunthorpe discover, learn, share and celebrate how their and Engagement Plan* villages, settlements and historic landscape A18 have been shaped by man. Topics include; * Area wide projects (not on the map) Keadby Bridge early evidence of human activity, farming and settlement practices, use of natural Keadby resources and development of the industrial A18 landscape.

Landscapes of Heroes – Community Peatland Restoration on Thorne and Hatfield M181 involvement is requested to uncover key Moors – This project will contribute towards M180 locations and rediscover tales of aviation Peatlandsrestoring the conditions for the history. Research will be undertaken into the Isle of Axholme’s airfields, military locations andinternationally Wetlands important lowland raised River mires at the Humberhead Peatlands NNR Hatfield Sandtoft and associated support sites (defences and moving towards being in favourable Trent other infrastructure) and will cover the condition, by reducing evapo-transpiration. Woodhouse period from WW1- present day Keadby Warping Drain – To fence the Board’s M18 land on which Keadby Warping Drain is M180 situated to allow grazing and the creation of Belton grassland habitat so that the historic Keadby TP.05 Warping Drain is situated in an area of A614 Hatfield complementary habitats with access and Thorne Waterfront – Canal Community engagement on “warping” and land drainage Moor Connections – Upgrading the towpath to history. Communityensure a safe, multi-user facility, creating some environmental enhancements and CC.03 Project area boundary Connections Reconstructing the Wildscape – delivering an interpretation scheme linking The project is based around an PW.01 the town with its waterside, though physical improvements and activities for people and investigation into the wild Hatfield Moors PW.03 ‘hidden landscapes’ of Thorne TP.03 other projects within the Landscape Partnership area. and Hatfield Moors their TP.02 surrounding areas and their associated floodplains and Epworth Completed Greenway Thorne to Crowle Moors Access Bridge – meres. These ‘hidden To install a new footbridge across the drain landscapes’ are the prehistoric, on the eastern boundary of Thorne Moors historic and post-medieval with Crowle Moors following the route of landscapes of the Humberhead CC.04 Planned Greenway the Peatlands Way. To give the visitor a new Levels which are preserved and A161 experience of the NNR and speed up access concealed by the peat and to this eastern side of Thorne following alluvial deposits that cover access improvements on Crowle Moors. much of this environment. Hatfield Viewing Towers – To install two new platforms overlooking the old peat milled 18 20 fields and Packard’s Heath where nightjars TP.05 breed each year. To give the visitor a new Haxey Hood, Haxey experience of the NNR – allowing new values TP.05 and perspectives to be achieved over the TP.02 expansive long-viewed landscapes of the 16 Haxey St Andrew’s Church, Epworth Humberhead Peatlands. Owston Isle of Axholme Greenway – Improved access to the landscapes of the Isle of Axholme and Ferry the moors of Crowle, Thorne and Hatfield. Its aim is to join up the missing sections of the Isle of Axholme Greenway and make links to the wider landscape and the moors beyond. Target links will include areas between Haxey and Epworth and between Belton and Crowle.