Watershed Landscape Project Wins National Award!

The Watershed Landscape Project has won the UK Landscape Award!

Natural Environment Minister Richard Benyon said "I am delighted that the South Pennine Watershed Landscape Project has won this award. It is a project with wide-ranging impact, a powerful expression of local identity and sense of place and is testament of the hard-work of the people who have played their part in the formation of this distinct landscape."

This is a great achievement and a testament to all the hard work of the project volunteers. A huge hank you to everyone!

Lottery Awards

The Watershed Landscape Project were runners up in the National Lottery Awards 2012. Thank you to everyone who voted for us - we were pipped to the post by only 58 votes!

National Lottery Award Finalist!

The Watershed Landscape Project has made it through to the National Lottery Awards (Environment Category). Thank you to everyone who voted in the last round - we now need your vote again!

Click here to go to the Awards website and cast your vote for this great Project.

Photographic Recording Project

The Watershed Landscape Project has just launched a project with the aim of recording the many and varied archaeological and historical features across the South Pennine uplands. The project is operating through the Geograph website, which means that the uploaded photographs are georeferenced and can be searched using a placename or grid reference (you need the grid reference of the feature in order to upload your photograph). More information can be found on the Watershed Landscape website.

Judd Walls, Nab Hill, Oxenhope



Watershed Landscape Project Reaches Semi-finals of National Lottery Awards!

The Watershed Landscape Project has reached the semi-finals of the National Lottery Awards (environmental category). This is really very exciting and it is a great acknowledgement of the enthusiasm and commitment of the many volunteers working across the project. To see what the whole project has been up to, please visit the project website 

Please vote for us and help us make it to the finals!

You can vote online here or by 'phone on 0844 836 9699 (voting ends at midnight on 22^nd July).

New guidance sheet available to download!

New guidance sheet on using handheld GPS units available to download from the Watershed Landscape website.

West Yorkshire Heritage Forum Meeting

The next meeting of the West Yorkshire Heritage Forum (WYHF) will be hosted jointly by Pennine Heritage and Watershed Landscape Project at the Birchcliffe Centre in Hebden Bridge on Saturday 30th June.

The programme includes a series of short presentations in the morning on various aspects of South Pennines heritage, followed by an opportunity to visit the archives and to take a guided stroll around historic Hebden Bridge in the afternoon.

Visit the WYHF for further details and for news about other projects and events throughout the area.

Survey resources available online

'Guidance Sheets' outlining the methodologies employed on the Riches of the Earth project have been uploaded to the Watershed Landscape website (click here). A list of the available resources appears on the 'Volunteer info.' page of the RotE blog.