Moor than meets the eye at Princetown Visitor Centre
A new exhibition by the Heritage Lottery funded Moor than meets the eye scheme is currently on display at the Dartmoor National Park Visitor Centre, Princetown.
The exhibition features some of the twenty-eight heritage projects that make up the scheme, including those run by local communities who have been telling the Dartmoor Story from a parish perspective.
Restoring the Ten Commandments Stones monument, excavating a ‘lost’ medieval manor, protecting bats in the Bovey Valley and investigating a post-medieval farmstead are just some of the projects featured.
Come along and find out about these and other fascinating projects and how Moor than meets the eye is helping people to discover the Dartmoor Story; a landscape forged by nature and shaped by people from prehistoric times to today. How it is bringing people together to explore Dartmoor’s past, conserve its wildlife and archaeology, improve understanding of the landscape and share and develop the skills to look after it for generations to come.
The Moor than meets the eye Landscape Partnership Scheme has received funding of £1.9 million from the National Lottery, through the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and is now in year three of a five year programme.
The organisations that form the partnership are: Dartmoor National Park, Dartmoor Farmers’ Association, Dartmoor Preservation Association, Dartmoor Commoners’ Council, Devon County Council, Duchy of Cornwall, Historic England, Forestry Commission, Natural England, South West Lakes Trust, RSPB, Visit Dartmoor and the Woodland Trust.
The Moor than meets the eye Landscape Partnership area covers 280 sq km of central and south east Dartmoor, one of the UK’s finest examples of a palimpsest – a landscape on which layer upon layer of human activity has left a mark. Its unique character has been shaped over millennia ensuring that people and place are intrinsically linked.
The exhibition runs at the National Park Visitor Centre, Princetown until 7 February 2018. The Centre is open Tuesday to Sunday, 10.00 am – 3.00 pm. Admission is Free.
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