to get The Lower Severn Vale Levels are an area of Want involved low lying floodplain alongside the River Severn. Do you love this landscape? Do you want to learn It stretches between the industrial estates of new skills, meet new people and help secure the Avonmouth within Bristol and the open, mostly future of the Lower Severn Vale Levels? Volunteer flat farmland around Oldbury and Shepperdine in with us. South Gloucestershire. For more information please contact the project team: [email protected] or 01454 863886 / 863043 Find out more at www.aforgottenlandscape.org.uk P roj ec t te a m Restoring the heritage of the Lower Severn Vale Levels : R e b e c c a , M i r i a m & K a t i e Project partners The partnership board consists of: In the north you’ll find small to medium sized fields South Gloucestershire Council, Natural England, Bristol City separated by rhines and hedgerows, pollarded Council, Avon Wildlife Trust, Farming & Wildlife Advisory Group willows and orchards and small villages. To the Southwest, RSPB, Bristol & Regional Environmental Record Centre, Environment Agency, University of the West of England, The south the area is more industrial with factories, Conservation Volunteers (TCV) and a community representative. railways, motorways and the two iconic bridges crossing the Severn. The whole area is great for wildlife with a wide range of nationally and internationally important species Images: James Flynn, Falcon’s View Photography such as water voles, great crested newts and a host of different birds associated with the Severn Estuary. It also has a fascinating and lively history with archaeological remains buried beneath the soil and many tales to tell of how people and the landscape SGCCREATIVEDESIGN • 06 | 15 S Printed on recycled paper shape each other. The project Shepperdine Hill In 2015 South Gloucestershire Council, in partnership with several other organisations, was successful in gaining Heritage Lottery Fund money Tortworth to run this large scale landscape project from now 14 Oldbury-on-Severn Rockhampton until the end of 2018. 2 Cowhill River Severn © South Gloucestershire Council, 2015 All rights reserved. Chareld © Crown copyright and database rights 2015 Ordnance Survey 100023410. Littleton A38 upon Thornbury Severn Cromhall 1 M5 Elberton Alveston A403 Aust M48 Wickwar Hawkesbury Upton The overall aims of the project are to improve Olveston habitats for wildlife, explore the area’s history and M4 A433 21 Tockington celebrate its heritage. 22 Severn Pilning Beach There are many different projects you can get M49 Almondsbury Iron involved with including: 15 A46 20 Acton 16 Chipping ❚ Sodbury monitoring birds, water voles or great crested M4 Badminton newts, Bradley A432 Old Sodbury Stoke Winterbourne ❚ learning how to restore key habitats, Yate 17 Patchway ❚ M5 improving footpaths and walking routes Acton Turville A38 A4018 Stoke ❚ taking part in archaeological surveys, researching Giord Motorway 19 A4174 Tormarton local history or collecting oral histories. Lawrence A432 A road Avonmouth Weston M32 A4 1 Minor road Filton This is just a small number of the many exciting 18 Shirehampton Frenchay M4 things we’ll be doing – any necessary training is Railway Bristol Mangotseld provided – so we’d love to hear from you! Motorway Urban area Pucklechurch Staple Hill If you are a farmer or landowner we offer free A road Project area advice for improving wildlife habitat and some grant Minor road Unitary funding. We will also be running a range of projects Railway boundary Urban area for schools and young people. A46 A420 A420 Project area Warmley Wick Marsheld Unitary A420 boundary A431 A4174.