Projects

Through the East Devon Catchment Partnership, Blackdown Hills AONB secured £20,000 to provide nature-based solutions across the upper catchment of the River Culm to address water quality issues [...]

During the second world war, Dunkeswell  Airfield was the only US naval air base on British soil. Our Dunkeswell War Stories project set about telling the story of Dunkeswell during this period [...]

Blackdown Hills National Landscape was one of 12 National Landscapes (formerly Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty) in England that took part a National Landscape Association programme to provide [...]

This project, funded by Historic England, shines a spotlight on the important field boundaries and linear landscape features of the Blackdown Hills AONB and highlights the important role they [...]

Blackdown Hills National Landscape secured funding from National Grid’s Landscape Enhancement Initiative to restore and enhance landscape features within the National Grid transmission line [...]

For centuries, the sounds, sweat and smoke of iron-working were part of life in the Blackdown Hills. The rich iron-working past of The Blackdown Hills was rooted in this area’s geology and, in [...]

The Nature and Wellbeing project helped members of the local community make the most of Somerset’s Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) by participating in activities that improve their [...]

Blackdown Hills Nature Recovery Plan lays out the priorities and actions needed to recover nature in and beyond the Blackdown Hills National Landscape, to build climate resilience, and address [...]

Somerset Nature Connections is a partnership project between Somerset Wildlife Trust and the three Somerset Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The project aims to help individuals and groups to [...]

The aim of the Woods for Water project is to stimulate woodland planting and management in appropriate locations to combat flooding and improve water quality.