Westmorland Dales Landscape Partnership The Westmorland Dales Landscape Partnership Scheme finished in early 2024 with projects successfully delivered by a wide range of project partners, community groups and individuals. Over the coming months, we’ll be updating this site to highlight what’s been achieved, so please keep checking back. Welcome … … to the Westmorland Dales website. The Westmorland Dales Landscape Partnership Scheme aimed to unlock and reveal the hidden heritage of the Westmorland Dales, enabling more people to connect with, enjoy and benefit from this inspirational landscape. Specifically, its objectives were to: Reveal the area’s hidden heritage. Conserve what makes the area special. Engage people in enjoying and benefitting from their heritage. Sustain the benefits of the scheme in the long-term. This was achieved through a programme of projects developed and delivered through the Westmorland Dales Landscape Partnership, led by Friends of the Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority, and mainly funded through the National Lottery Heritage Fund. It ran over a five-year period from March 2019 to February 2024. Here you can discover what makes the area so special, find out about the scheme’s projects, and view and download resources produced. The Westmorland Dales The Westmorland Dales is a beautiful area of Cumbria lying to the north of the Howgill Fells and located within the north-west corner of the Yorkshire Dales National Park. It stretches from Tebay in the south-west to Kirkby Stephen in the east and to Maulds Meaburn in the north-west. At its heart are the limestone fells above Orton and Asby, rich in natural and cultural heritage, and with magnificent views to the Pennines, the Howgills and the Lakeland fells. It drains into the Lune river catchment to the south and the Eden river catchment to the north. Relatively overlooked compared with its better-known neighbours, our projects have aimed to reveal its heritage for more to enjoy without detracting from its unique qualities. (Click on map for larger image) Contact information Friends of the Lake District Murley Moss, Oxenholme Road, Kendal, Cumbria LA9 7SS Main Telephone: 01539 720788 Email: [email protected] Yorkshire Dales National Park AuthorityYoredale, Bainbridge, Leyburn, North Yorkshire DL8 3EL Main Telephone: 01969 652300 Email: [email protected] Home About the Scheme Partners Funders The WDLPS Team Projects Connecting Heritage Cultural Heritage Natural Heritage Resources News Archive Newsletter Archive Film and Sound Archive Westmorland Dales Map Geology and Fossil Educational Resources Heritage Talks Archive Geology Resources Poetry Archive Volunteering Opportunities Online Landscape Conference 2021 RECORDING Our Westmorland Dales Landscape Forum, originally planned for April 2020, finally took place online as our Westmorland Dales Landscape Conference on Saturday 27th March 2021. John Dunning, the chair of the partnership, set the scene before a wonderful cross-section of presentations from our partner organisations and project leads loosely focussed around our natural, cultural and connecting heritage themes. Given we couldn’t be in Great Asby, Keith Cooper gave us an excellent insight in the development of its medieval village-scape through the innovative use of satellite images. Other presentations covered upland farming, geology, natural flood management, wildflower meadows, archaeological and built heritage surveys, routes through the area and our apprentices project. We had time for two question and answer sessions and the conference was rounded off with our Picturing the Westmorland Dales film featuring the landscape artwork produced by the local primary schools. The conference and series of webinars have been a great success, broadening our reach and including people who might not have attended otherwise because they live too far away, don’t have their own transport or are of limited mobility. And we’ve found that even more people have enjoyed our recordings, so do watch this one and feel free to share the link with your friends. We are of course keen to get outside for real again so watch this space for events, walks and other activities as lockdown restrictions ease. A huge thank you to everyone who contributed to the conference, not least to all within the Westmorland Dales team, and to the National Lottery Heritage Fund whose support has been crucial. The agenda below may assist you in locating items of interest within the recording. Times will be approximate. Times Speaker Subject 9:45 10:00 David Evans, John Dunning Welcome and introduction 10:05 Veronica Waller The Farmer Network Upland Farming and Sustainability 10:20 Sylvia Woodhead Cumbria GeoConservation Geo-trails and local geological sites in the Westmorland Dales 10:35 Lev Dahl, Dave Greaves Eden Rivers Trust Slowing the Flow along the Scandal Beck 10:50 Graham Jackson Pitt Cumbria Wildlife Trust Upland Species-Rich Grassland 11:05 Break and Questions 11:15 Keith Cooper Great Asby Great Asby – a Medieval Village-scape 11:30 Hannah Kingsbury Westmorland Dales team Heritage Surveys: Great Asby Scar Archaeology, Barns and Walls 11:45 Karen Griffiths Yorkshire Dales National Park A Way Through – from Roman Roads to the M6 12:00 Belinda Lloyd Yorkshire Dales National Park Skills for the Future Apprentice Film Presentation (pre-recorded) 12:15 Westmorland Dales Team – a summary of the past year and plans for the future. Questions and feedback Celebrating the Westmorland Dales Films to play at the end or refer people to. Picturing the Westmorland Dales, Gamelands, Westmorland Dales under a blanket of winter snow, Apprentices Manage Cookie Preferences