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Between 2002 and 2009 the Trust delivered two major projects that studied the historic landscape of Rockingham Forest - producing an online Heritage Resource Centre that makes the information publicly available and working with communities & landowners to help maintain the unique character of the area. It has now been awarded a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund that will support further work in other parts of Northamptonshire. |
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Reproduced with permission of the Northamptonshire Record Office |
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The ’Rose of the Shires’ project will focus on 6 key areas of the County, each of which contains a different type of historic landscape. The 3 year programme will work with several communities in each area to discover, assess and record the surviving evidence of the past; using data that is unique to Northamptonshire and which enables reconstruction of how the landscape would have appeared in previous centuries. The information gathered will be adopted into the Historic Environment Records held by the County Council and used to inform the future management of each area, helping to protect these important landscapes for future generations. The project will also involve communities in finding out more about their social and industrial heritage and will be providing a programme of activities for schools. The online Heritage Resource Centre will be expanded to cover the whole of Northamptonshire, enabling users to view the maps that re-create the County’s historic landscapes and to access all the information used in ‘Rose of the Shires’. To find out more about the heritage of Rockingham Forest please enter the Heritage Resource Centre using the link below. |
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