Stiperstones - Corndon Landscape Partnership Scheme
The Shropshire Hills AONB Partnership have joined forces with a number of other organisations and local people to explore the possibility of a new Landscape Partnership Scheme. This will bring together the Stiperstones ridge, Upper Onny Valley, Corndon, Todleth, Roundton and Stapeley Common for a potential application to the Heritage Lottery Fund in November 2010. This area has a wealth of interesting natural and historic features, which make the landscape distinct. There is evidence of thousands of years of human history, from Bronze and Iron Age archaeology to 19th Century mining; pockets of rare grassland, river valleys and woodland harbouring a wide array of interesting wildlife including curlew, dormouse and the northern most locality for the spreading bell flower; and a plethora of myths and legends, with the landscape having considerable cultural signficance.
The Heritage Lottery Fund grant can be spent on staff, practical grants, events, infrastructure and other items that will help deliver the scheme aims :
- conserve and restore the natural and historic features that make the area special;
- increase community involvement in local heritage;
- increase access to and learn about the landscape and its heritage;
- increase training in local heritage skills.
A number of projects need to be designed under each of these aims. A steering group has been formed and consultation with local people is under way during 2010.
For further information, please contact Clare Fildes on 01588 674094.