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Askrigg
This is a lovely easy walk of about 2.5 miles, including sections through some exceptional wildflower hay meadows which should be looking at their best at this time of year.
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Led by professional local photographer and YDMT supporter Steve Finch, this one day workshop is ideal for anyone with a Digital SLR camera who wants to progress from the automatic setting. £10 from each ticket sold will be donated to YDMT.
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Nr Clapham
Learn all about the traditional art of scything. This practical two-day course (10 & 11th Aug) covers all you need to know on how to set up, use and maintain a scythe, enabling you to efficiently mow your garden, allotment, orchard or meadow.
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Grassington
Join local charity Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust (YDMT) for a scenic 5 mile guided walk around young and old woodlands in Grassington. Part of the Grassington Festival.
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Lancliffe
Learn about the ecology, lifecycle and the different species of bumblebee you are likely to encounter in the Yorkshire Dales.
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Stainforth
Back by popular demand! This route takes in Winskill Stones, Catrigg Force and the chance to see salmon leaping at Stainforth Foss. (This walk replaces the 8 Nov Hardraw Force Walk previously scheduled)
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This walk has been replaced by the Salmon Walk at Stainforth on 24 October. Appologies for any inconvenience.
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Nidderdale
This year’s Supporter Woodland is Harrison's Wood in a beautiful spot near Pateley Bridge. The woodland has been planted with a mixture of native broadleaf specieis, including large proportions of Hawthorn, Ash and Downy Birch.
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Nidderdale
This year’s Supporter Woodland is Harrison's Wood in a beautiful spot near Pateley Bridge. The woodland has been planted with a mixture of native broadleaf specieis, including large proportions of Hawthorn, Ash and Downy Birch.
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Lamberts Wood is situated on the riverbank adjacent to the picturesque Aysgarth Falls in the
heart of the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Two areas of woodland have been
planted, amounting to 1.75 hectares in total.
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Calm Slate Farm is the home of Yorkshire Dales Ice Cream. The woodland is split over 5 areas and covers approximately 4.5 hectares in total and is planted with over 7,300 native broadleaved trees and shrubs.
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Chapel Fell is a new native woodland situated above Malham Tarn. The site covers 3 hectares and contains 3,000 trees.
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Thornbrook woodland at Thornton in Lonsdale covers 3.75 hectares and is planted with
7975 native broadleaved trees and shrubs.
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The site above Grassington is planted with 5,500 native broadleaved trees, predominately
ash, but also includes oak, birch, rowan, holly, hazel, hawthorn and willow.
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Laund Oak is located on the Bolton Abbey Estate in Wharfedale. 4.5 hectares of new
woodland were planted to extend and link to Strid Wood, an ancient woodland
site and a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), and Posforth Gill, an
ancient replanted woodland site.
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Skuff Wood in Burnsall has extended an area of
ancient semi-natural woodland by planting 600 native trees – ash, rowan,
sessile oak, bird cherry, hawthorn, hazel and holly.
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Witton Fell woodland is situated in Wensleydale, south of East Witton. The woodland forms part of the East Nidderdale Moors Site of
Special Scientific Interest.
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Cross Wood is located on the valley side between Kettlewell and Starbotton. It is part of
the Upper Wharfedale Site of Special Scientific Interest. The land rises in a series of steps which
reflect the underlying limestone geology.
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St Joseph’s is YDMT's first major supporter woodland. Planted in the winter of 1998 and 1999 the woodland is located at Aysgarth Falls, Wensleydale, next to the ancient Freeholders Wood and near the famous waterfalls.
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This woodland is particularly interesting and unusual as the plantings have been designed to illustrate the succession of different types of woodland which are believed to have colonised this area naturally since the last Ice Age.
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Located in the Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty approximately 1 mile north of Thornthwaite. This site of new broadleaved woodland covers 7.4 hectares and is planted with approximately 7,125 native broadleaf trees and shrubs.
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This woodland covers an area of 6.3 hectares. It is adjacent to and extends an area of woodland planted in 2009 at nearby Parlour Barn and also links to other smaller areas of native broadleaf woodland in the area.
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Dent
This project involved the planting of approximately 40 acres (around 21,000 trees) of new native broadleaf woodland on a site of a conifer plantation that was felled during 2010/11.
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Askrigg
LEADER has awarded £6,417 to help improve Askrigg village and bury their very own time capsule!
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Bentham
Bentham used a Parish Caretaker to do 'all those little jobs' that the parish struggled to get done as they were not considered big enough by outside contractors.
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Catterick
This project involved the construction of a combined BMX and Mountain Bike track on an existing sports field. It now provides the opportunity for riders to practise and hone their skills in an appropriate but still challenging environment.
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Near Arncliffe
In 2010 we harvested green hay from a nearby species-rich meadow and spread it on two meadows totalling 3.8 ha that had lost some of their botanical diversity.
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Coldstones Quarry, Nidderdale
In 2010 this project was awarded £12,000 of LEADER finance for interpretation activity to support a much wider development programme at this iconic landmark.
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Cartright Hall, Bradford
The day brought together groups that have been involved in the People and the DALES project over the last two years and was attended by 39 people.
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Near Hawes
During 2007 this project involved the creation of a new woodland of almost 50 acres in total.
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Catterick Garrison
This project received NYAGS funding for the construction of a raised, insulated viewing hide to overlook the Wet Meadows habitat of Foxglove Covert LNR.
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Hawes
230 year-old Gayle Mill in Wensleydale has been awarded £80,000 to provide education and training to schools.
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Leighton
Grimes Gill is a remnant upland oak woodland within the Nidderdale AONB. It has SSSI (Site of Special Scientific Interest) status, although prior to planting it was classified as being in ‘unfavourable condition’.
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Summerbridge
This project involved felling a small conifer plantation of around 35 years in age and replanting the site with native broadleaf trees.
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Leyburn & Middleham
Yorkshire Dales LEADER has supported the Leyburn and Mid Wensleydale Business Association with £76,534 to help raise the economic profiles of Leyburn, Middleton and their hinterlands.
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Nosterfield
Our work to improve and enhance North Yorkshire’s premier wet grassland nature reserve.
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Parcevall Hall Gardens Observation Hive
SDF supported Wharfedale Beekeepers Association to re-introduce bee keeping at Parcevall Hall, where the several hundred year history of bee keeping has died out.
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Ripon
NYAGS has helped fund a range of projects at the Walled Garden, including the reinstatement of walkways through the grounds, management of the orchard and planting native broadleaf trees.
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Garsdale
Around 2,440 trees were planted in 2007 over 8 acres, and the whole site was fenced to protect the young trees from nibbling by livestock.
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Sustainable Biomass Fuels Project
SDF funded the development of a briquette maker by company The Wonder of Wood to manufacture fuel from their waste wood materials.
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Selby
The Grassroots Grant enabled The Monday Club to continue to provide a social facility for adults with physical and/or learning difficulties, providing an opportunity to develop their skills and friendships.
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Wensley
Until 2007 the village of Wensley lacked any community meeting place. A successful application was made to NYAGS (North Yorkshire Aggregates Grants Scheme) to construct a new timber multi-use sports pavilion which incorporated many energy saving features.
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Tarn Moor, Skipton
£7,500 was awarded to Wharfedale Beekeepers to support a bee breeding programme and to help them provide advice, education and training on bees.
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Yorkshire Dales Food project
This SDF funded project gave everyone a chance to taste Yorkshire Dales food and gain the confidence and skills to use local food in their lives today.
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Helwith Bridge, nr Settle
LEADER provided £50,000 to spend on the ‘Old School’ – the Society’s meeting place - to convert a large unused section of the loft area into a meeting room and library, including a small kitchen area complete with new kitchen facilities.
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Clapham
A group from Settle Resource Centre delved into a willow wonderland on the edge of Clapham for a hands-on day out as part of the ‘People and the DALES’ project.
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Scargill House, Wharfedale
In March 2011 we held the third of our walking training weekends for community group leaders and volunteers. The training enables those that have already been out on visits through People and the DALES to build up the skills and confidence to bring groups out to the Dales on their own.
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Halton Gill, Littondale
With the help of YDMT, primary school children from Our Lady of Victories Catholic School in Keighley and Aspin Park in Knareborough came together to enjoy learning in the Yorkshire Dales as part of the 'OurSpace' project.
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Ribblehead
Addi Street is sheltered housing provided by Catholic Care for adults with mental health issues in Bradford.
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