Managing a Masterpiece:The Stour Valley Landscape Partnership

Managing a Masterpiece• £1.1 million HLF funded Landscape Partnership

Scheme• Three programmes to be delivered over three

years, understanding, conserving and celebrating

• 62 individual projects• To understand, conserve and celebrate the

landscape of the Stour Valley• Partnership Board of 19 members led by the

Dedham Vale AONB and Stour Valley Project

• Wormingford• Clare

community test pitting

• Mt. Bures excavation

• Over 1000 volunteers involved so far

Public Archaeology

Public Archaeology• Field walking at Bures in March and April

• Lime Plaster• Timber Frame• Flint Walling• Pargetting• Schools

workshops

Traditional Building Skills

• Hedgerow restoration

• Re-pollarding of trees

• Countryside Management training

• New riverside trees

• Natural heritage survey

Countryside Projects

Hedgerow Conservation• Dedham Vale AONB Volunteers at Alphamstone

Re-pollarding of Trees• Flatford to Stratford St. Mary pollarding of

riverside trees

Countryside Management Training• Dedham Vale AONB Volunteers, British Trust for

Conservation Volunteers and National Trust Volunteers hedge-laying at Flatford.

• Church towers used as viewing platforms

• Panoramic photographs and virtual tours

• Churches as information centres

• Access projects for churches

Church Projects

• Panoramic photographs and virtual tours

Church Projects

• Conservation of painter’s views

• Flatford dry dock (boatbuilding at Flatford)

Heritage Conservation

• Dry dock restoration at Flatford

Conservation of Painters Views

• Walking tours• Self guided

cycle routes• Rights of way

improvements

Managing a Masterpiece

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Supporting Access

• Dedham Vale Hopper Bus

• Flagpole and banner for Clare Castle

• Steps and access to Mount Bures Castle

• Interpretation panels

Conservation Projects on Monuments

• In partnership with River Stour Trust and Pioneer Sailing Trust

• Launch July 2012, Flatford

Stour Lighter Restoration

• Mount Bures excavation

• English Heritage conservation course

• Natural heritage survey (SWT)

• Willow weaving• Built heritage

survey

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