IntroductionThe Landscape Partnership spans the historicboundary between Yorkshire and NorthLincolnshire and is supported by a grantfrom the Heritage Lottery Fund. ThePartnership’s aim is to reconnect peoplewith their landscape and culturalheritage.

The Partnership area covers an area of233 square kilometres; located in theHumberhead Levels it includes parishesin North Lincolnshire and DoncasterMetropolitan Borough areas.

The Landscape Partnership seeks toconserve the landscape heritage – bothnatural and cultural – in distinctivelandscapes, whilst delivering benefits forpeople within and beyond the areas theLandscape Partnership covers. Inparticular, it will change the way peopleunderstand, perceive and relate to thelandscapes they live in, work in, or visit.

In doing this the Landscape Partnershipscheme creates a holistic and balancedapproach to the management of landscapeheritage, helping people to connect with it,thereby leading to continued activity and alasting legacy. The Landscape Partnershipwill offer people the skills and training togain the experience to help deliver theindividual projects outcomes, and tocontinue to use these skills after thePartnership has ended.

LearningThe Landscape Partnership aims to promoteand facilitate thought-provoking and uniquelearning experiences with the Partnership’srich and diverse landscapes at the heart of it.To achieve our mission of reconnectingpeople with their landscape and culturalheritage, the team will deliver a programmeof inventive and exciting events, activitiesand workshops.

We aim to pay special attention to localschools. Creating an appetite for history andthe natural world early on will encourage aset of values and inspire future generationsto carry on safeguarding this important area.

Education transport supportThis project aims to tackle one of the keyconstraints preventing schoolchildren andschools using key landscape partnership sites for educational visits from nearbycommunities of interest. A transport subsidywill be available to local schools andeducation providers.

Volunteering with usVolunteers are an integral part of thePartnership. With the efforts and assistancegiven by volunteers our projects will not onlybe successful, but the outcomes of theprojects will positively impact thoseinvolved, residents and the local area. Inreturn volunteers will receive opportunitiesto acquire new skills, attend trainingsessions, workshops and events.

Volunteering has many benefits; meetinglikeminded people, building confidence andpromoting wellbeing in new surroundings.

Volunteering can change perceptions andcreate a community of caring considerateindividuals who keep alive traditions.

Gaining skills whilst volunteering with theproject will help to form a knowledge andskill base within local communities that inthe long term can safeguard their landscapeand cultural heritage after the project hasfinished.

To have a chat about volunteering call theLandscape Partnership team on 01724 297536.

Community Grant FundThe Isle of Axholme and Hatfield ChaseLandscape Partnership Community GrantFund can be accessed by local communitygroups, land owners and organisations thatare operating within the LandscapePartnership area.

Applicants can apply for a maximum of£2,000. We are encouraging applicants toprovide match funding to assist theirapplication and it is possible for volunteertime to be included as match.

Successful applications have included therestoration of East Lound’s pinfold and theinstallation of oak benches along the HaxeyLine Local Nature Reserve. Further casestudies are available for download onwww.ioahc.net.

Applying for the grant is easy. Visitwww.ioahc.net and download theappropriate forms or contact the LandscapePartnership for further details.

About usTo find out more about the LandscapePartnership visit www.ioahc.net

You can contact a member of the Landscape Partnership team by emailinglandscapepartnership@northlincs.gov.uk

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EventsThe Landscape Partnership is offering avaried programme of project informedevents, training sessions, workshops andactivities. Events will be available throughoutthe year in various locations across theproject area. Examples of events include:> Investigating nature - pond dipping, lifecycles of the dragonfly and mini-beasting. > Habitat management – building birdboxes, bird feeders, hedge laying workshopsand training, improving pathways and accessand wildlife surveying> Walking events - themed walking events,talking walks, walking festivals, seasonalwalks, bat and wildlife walks, family activitytrails and guided photography walks. > Art and craft workshops – Sketching theIsle workshops, out of school activities, rockpainting, scarecrow making, and lots more!> Project open days – themed days withactivities, talks, walks and exhibitions. Heritage skills and training – fieldwalking,learn how to do a test-pit in your garden,documentary research, recording historicbuildings.

Check out the Partnership’s Facebook pageor website for upcoming events.

About the HeritageLottery Fund The Isle of Axholme and Hatfield ChaseLandscape Partnership was awarded £1.84mby Heritage Lottery Fund, which will allowthe Partnership to deliver 16 projects withmatch funding worth £3m.

The partnership is made up of the followingorganisations:• North Lincolnshire Council • Natural England • Crowle Peatland Railway Society • Canal and River Trust • Doncaster Metropolitan Council• Heritage Lincolnshire• Yorkshire Wildlife Trust

Thanks to National Lottery Players investingmoney to help people across the UK explore,enjoy and protect the heritage they careabout - from the archaeology under our feetto the historic parks and buildings we love,from precious memories and collections torare wildlife.

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Isle of Axholme & Hatfield ChasePROJECT MAP

Community ConnectionsThorne Waterfront – Canal CommunityConnections – Towpath’s along the canal in Thornehave been upgraded to offer enjoyable circularroutes, and ensuring a safe, multi-user facility,creating some environmental enhancements anddelivering an interpretation scheme linking thetown with its waterside.

Thorne to Crowle Moors Access Bridge –To install a new footbridge across the drain on theeastern boundary of Thorne Moors with CrowleMoors following the route of the Peatlands Way. To give the visitor a new experience of the NNRand speed up access to this eastern side of Thornefollowing access improvements on Crowle Moors.

Hatfield Viewing Towers – Two new viewingplatforms have been installed that overlook the old peat milled fields and Packard’s Heath wherenightjar’s breed each year. The platforms give thevisitor a new experience of the NNR, allowing newvalues and perspectives to be achieved over theimportant landscapes of the HumberheadPeatlands.

Isle of Axholme Greenway –The Isle of AxholmeGreenway has received multiple upgrades, openingup a route from Scunthorpe, to Gunness, Keadby,and Crowle to Medge Hall; with further workneeded to complete this full route to Thorne. Work is now being undertaken to link parts of theGreenway that connects North from Haxey, finallyjoining this route to the Greenway that runs alongthe canal.

Peatlands and Wetlands Peatland Restoration on Thorne and HatfieldMoors – Restoration work has begun on the site toimprove conditions on the internationallyimportant lowland raised mires at theHumberhead Peatlands NNR. This has included thespraying and removal of invasive species such asthe Rhododendron. The work will promote morefavourable conditions for the future by reducingevapotranspiration.

Keadby Warping Drain – Ground works on the sitehave been successfully completed. Fencing hasbeen positioned around the drain allowing forgrazing and creation of an interesting andflourishing grassland habitat. A new informationboard will soon be installed for visitorsto enjoy and will feature informationabout land drainage history.

Reconstructing the Wildscape –The project is based around aninvestigation into the wild ‘hiddenlandscapes’ of Thorne and HatfieldMoors their surrounding areas andtheir associated floodplains andmeres. These ‘hidden landscapes’ are the prehistoric, historic and post-medieval landscapes of theHumberhead Levels which arepreserved and concealed by the peatand alluvial deposits that cover much of thisenvironment.

Time and Place From Flaxen Locks to Retting Pits – Investigationand interpretation of the significant industry forflax and retting in and around the Isle of Axholme.Experimental flax processing and archaeologicalinvestigations are due to take place with lots ofopportunities for volunteers to get involved.

Castles and Manors – Recent archaeologicalinvestigations revealed more about Vinegarth’sMedieval manor house. Evidence of a high statusbuilding was found near to St Andrew’s Church,Epworth that included roof tiles and decoratedglazed tiles. A jet di, animal bones and medievalpottery was also found. Scrub and tree clearancework has been completed at the scheduled Motteand Bailey Castle site at Owston Ferry. This workhas improved visitor access to the monument andthe local nature reserve. A new interpretationboard has been installed providing visitorsinformation about the monument and the local wildlife.

Neolithic Trackway – The project aims to build areplica of the Neolithic Lindholme Trackway foundon Hatfield Moor in 2004. The trackway dates backto 2900-2500BC and is known as a Corduroytrackway.

Industrial Archaeology of the Peatlands and itsRailway – Run by the Crowle Peatland RailwaySociety this project will explore the rail andindustrial history linked to Thorne and CrowleMoors.

Presenting the Past – A range of volunteeractivities will allow local communities to discover,learn, share and celebrate how their villages,settlements and historic landscape have beenshaped by man. Topics include; early evidence ofhuman activity, farming and settlement practices,use of natural resources and development of theindustrial landscape.

Landscapes of Heroes – A team of local volunteershave been passionately recording and surveyingthe lost military buildings, airfields and crash sitesof the Partnership area. A project to record oralhistories is also underway in effort to rediscoverthose forgotten wartime stories and rememberthose local characters who played a part in thearea’s history.

Partnership projectsOver the next five years, a total of 16 individual projectswill be delivered through the Isle of Axholme and Hatfield Chase Partnership. There are three themes:> PEATLANDS AND WETLANDS> TIME AND PLACE> COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS> Peatlands and WetlandsPW.01 Peatland Restoration on Thorne & Hatfield Moors PW.02 Keadby Warping DrainPW.03 Reconstructing the Wildscape> Time and PlaceTP.01 From Flaxen Locks to Retting Pits TP.02 Castles and ManorsTP.03 Neolithic TrackwayTP.04 Crowle and Thorne Moors Peat Industrial Railway RestorationTP.05 Presenting the Past (Haxey, Belton and Owston Ferry) TP.06 Landscape of Heroes*> Community ConnectionsCC.01 Thorne Waterfront Canal CC.02 Thorne to Crowle Moors Access BridgeCC.03 Hatfield Moor Viewing Towers CC.04 Isle of Axholme Greenway CC.05 Third Party Grant Scheme*CC.06 Education Transport Support*CC.07 Activity Plan: Landscape and Engagement Plan*

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Archaeological finds

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East Lound, Haxey

Roe buck, Hatfield Moors Picture: Pete Tiplady