Heritage
YES! to a NEW HERITAGE PROJECT
Rockingham Forest Trust, which manages Stanwick Lakes, is hoping to begin a new heritage project in 2013. The project will provide a range of exciting activities along the Nene Valley from Thrapston to Wellingborough and include Stanwick Lakes. In order to be succesful with our funding bid we must be able to show that there is support from local people for the project. This is why we are asking for your help!
If the funding application is successful we will be working with communities and schools to discover more about their local heritage. This will range from the Roman, Iron Age and medieval settlements at Stanwick Lakes and Chester Farm through to the cottage trades and industrialisation of local towns and villages during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
The project will focus on the trade and occupations of the last 200 years and we plan to offer short courses in traditional skills such as coppicing, stonemasonry, basket making, thatching, lace making and blacksmithing to local people of all ages, including school students.
Over the past two years we have already worked with hundreds of local people in building our Iron Age roundhouse and other heritage activities at Stanwick Lakes and we would like to build on this work. As part of the funding application we need to show there is community support for the new project.
You can show your support for our application by copying the sentence below and emailing it to stuart@rftrust.org.uk along with any other comments or suggestions you may wish to make. Thank you!
I support the Rockingham Forest Trust’s heritage project application and believe it would benefit our local schools and communities.
Other comments or suggestions:
Stanwick Lakes’ Heritage
Before gravel extraction began on the site in 1985, archaeological excavations were carried out that uncovered thousands of years of heritage at Stanwick Lakes. Neolithic long barrows, Bronze Age round barrows, Iron Age roundhouses and a Roman villa are just a few of the treasures that were discovered.
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