Forthcoming talk

This is just a quick reminder that on Thursday 27th June Nigel Neil will be giving an illustrated talk about the Deer Parks of the Forest of Bowland AONB, based on the research he carried out with others over the last two years. The talk is one of our 'Discover Bowland' series, given by local experts and volunteers, as part of Festival Bowland. It is to be held at Chipping Memorial Hall and starts at 7.30pm: no booking required, please just turn up. For more details phone the AONB office on 01200 448000.
The accompanying field trip, to be held on Saturday 29th June, is nearly fully booked so hurry up and ring us if you want to join a fascinating walk around the pale at Leagram, led by Graham Cooper.

Deer Park report published

Last week we finally managed to publish our long awaited research report on Deer Parks in the Forest of Bowland: the work that led us to set up the Leap in the Park project.

You can download a copy from: www.forestofbowland.com/deerparks and read all the detail about how Leagram and Radholme parks were developed, managed and finally dis-parked. There is also a short report about the salters, or deer leaps, around Leagram park, which we have been investigating lately.

The report contains some of the photos and images from this blog, and many more of archived material which was unearthed during the research work carried out by Nigel Neil, Ruth Thurnhill and Graham Cooper.

Depiction of a deer park on a Flemish tapestry of c 1500
from the Burrell Collection, reproduced by kind permission of Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries