This is an opportunity to get some background to the industrial history of Clee St Margaret and Clee Liberty Common and details about the work we will be doing over the summer. This will include a walk, a talk, opportunity to do some research and another community excavation to get involved in!!

Everybody is welcome, especially those who haven't been involved yet, so please tell anyone who might be interested.

You don't need to book places but if you are thinking of attending please drop Matt an email via info@fearnheritage.co.uk  - this is just so he can get an idea of numbers.

Download the poster here

Join Matt Williams from Fearn Heritage in the village hall where he will present all the findings from this year’s excavations and investigations. He will also set out what the plans are for next year when focus turns to the industrial heritage on the hill. This meeting starts at 7:30pm and will be held in Clee St Margaret Village Hall.

Please book by emailing Matt via info@fearnheritage.co.uk

The walk is a walk around the edge of Clee Liberty common, looking at medieval and landscape features and boundaries under guidance from Matt Williams from Fearn Heritage and Archaeology, a nice way to round off the activities in this our second year. Please dress for the weather and bring your own refreshments. We expect to be out for about 2 to 2.5 hours. The terrain may be wet, slippery and uneven so wear suitable footwear. Meet at the Yeld car park at 10am.

Please book by emailing Matt via info@fearnheritage.co.uk

Please join us at Clee St Margaret Village Hall on Monday 28 November at 7.30pm where we will present ideas for habitat improvements on Clee Liberty Common as a result of work that has been carried out under the Our Upland Commons Project and to discuss how we move forward from this point.  This offers an opportunity for some exciting habitat developments to improve habitats for a number of species as well as other broader benefits.

Leo Smith, OUC bird project coordinator and Dr Jenny Joy with Mike Williams who have coordinated and delivered projects around butterflies and moths for the OUC project, have been working together this autumn, also with local residents, commoners/graziers, the Parish Council and also other specialists incl. Natural England, the National Trust and Shropshire Wildlife Trust and they will explain their combined ideas, how and why these may be beneficial and what particular species these are aimed at.

We then hope to spark a discussion about the merits, feasibility and resources needed for these interventions and gauge interest and priority levels and how we can map out plans how these can be taken forward by you, the combined local community, if that is what you want.

We hope for a full house at the meeting, and a good discussion and that this will ultimately lead to elements that can be incorporated into a new Management Plan for Clee Liberty in line with the vision that was drafted in the development phase of the OUC project.

Booking Essential - contact Renée Wallace (Renee@foundationforcommonland.org.uk) to reserve your place.

Speaker: Dr Trevor Rowley

Date: Tuesday 20th September

Time: 2:30pm

Place: Clee St Margaret Village Hall

Space is limited within the hall so please email info@fearnheritage.co.uk if you would like to attend.

Refreshments will be available.

Please see the poster below for all the details.

Booking is essential. Contact the Dartmoor Hill Farm Project for more details: hfp@dartmoor.gov.uk

People are invited to join a mission to discover the secrets of England’s highest Roman road, High Street on Bampton Common on the eastern Lake District fells.

The 2,000 year-old road linked to Roman forts at Penrith, to the north and Ambleside to the south, explans Eleanor Kingston from the Lake District national Park Authority who is leading the work.

It is part of a three-year, £3 million project, Our upland Commons, helping to secure the future of upland commons in England, led by the Foundation for Common Land. And made possible by grants from The National Lottery heritage Fund, Esmee Fairbairn and Garfield Weston Foundations and local funders.

“Roman roads were the arteries of the empire, connecting communities, cities, provinces and forts”, says Eleanor.