Project concludes and app launched

Here is Jennie's final illustration for the project - drawn specifically for the schools pack - it shows the Stanleys and the Marsdens viewing recent repairs to the pale.

The project has now come to a close - have a look at all the materials on www.forestofbowland.com/aleapinthepark  and from there you can download the mobile app we have created, so you can go out into the landscape and walk the line of the pale with audio commentary and images of the area as it has been over the last 600 years: take a leap in the park!

Open Day!

Our project open day on 1st December was a big success, with over 100 people coming along to find out more about the deer parks. Jennie brought along her illustrations and eveyone loved them!

 



We also attempted to build a section of pale in the wildlife garden behind the church hall which is managed by Chipping in Bloom. First we felled a branch of an old oak tree standing by a brookand then Richard Atton and Tarja cleaved it into 4 quarters - tough work!

 

 

then the uprights and rails were put in place and they made wooden pegs to hold them together

 

Well done you two!

the pale will be finished soon: all 10 foot of it! imagine how hard it would be to build 7 miles.....why not pop along to Chipping and see it?