Project - Life's Journey
Partners - Local volunteers, heritage organisations, local authorities and funders (more details on the last page of the report below)
The Life's Journey project was set up to safeguard and increase the quality and quantity of physical and intellectual access to the built and cultural history of three sites in northern Devon that are linked by Tarka Trail cycle/pedestrian path. The public was involved throughout the project through volunteering and opportunities to learn about the Life's Journey sites and spread the word.
Life's Journey explores the linked heritage of those places and what they tell us about local people's relationship with the environment over the past 200 years. It brings together the winning of nature's riches (primarily heavy ball clay), the need for agricultural improvement, trade and the development of a related transport infrastructure in the 19th and 20th century.
The Project also created better access to the countryside for people with mobility difficulties by improved access infrastructure at the Gaia Trust's Home Farm Marsh site and by providing Tramper mobility vehicle hire from Fremington Quay.
SITES:
Fremington Quay
Home Farm Marsh
Rolle Canal
Life's Journey explores the linked heritage of those places and what they tell us about local people's relationship with the environment over the past 200 years. It brings together the winning of nature's riches (primarily heavy ball clay), the need for agricultural improvement, trade and the development of a related transport infrastructure in the 19th and 20th century.
The Project also created better access to the countryside for people with mobility difficulties by improved access infrastructure at the Gaia Trust's Home Farm Marsh site and by providing Tramper mobility vehicle hire from Fremington Quay.
SITES:
Fremington Quay
Home Farm Marsh
Rolle Canal
A brief summary presentation on the Project