Over thirty project will be delivered through the Limestone Journeys Scheme in 2012. A project guide will be available in the spring, meanwhile take a look at the projects listed below.

Conserving and Restoring

Limestone Habitat Restoration Project

The project will work with local people including landowners to improve habitats such as grasslands, woodlands and wetlands for the benefit of wildlife and people.
Bolsover Countryside Partnership/Derbyshire Wildlife Trust

Your Hidden Heritage

The built heritage of the Limestone Journeys area greatly contributes to its unique character. Your Hidden Heritage involves local people surveying these built features that are hidden in the landscape.
Limestone Journeys Team

 

Securing the Past

This project will preserve and digitise oral history archives held by local history societies. Volunteers will be trained in order to expand the digitisation to other groups in the area, generating a comprehensive digital archive.
Creswell Heritage Trust

 

Mining Memories

This project will capture memories from a time when mining was the dominant industry. Training will be offered for volunteers to record oral histories from members of the local community.
Creswell Heritage Trust

Community Participation

Triple Echo

Site-specific stone artwork using local materials. The general public will have access to the studio to see how a professional artist develops work in the environment.
Junction Arts

 

Beneath the Surface

A documentary film (pilot) showcasing the growth and decline of the local industries of quarrying and mining, creating a legacy from the community about their industrial past.
Junction Arts

 

The Whispering Gallery

The general public who are visiting Hardwick Hall on Sunday 28 October 2012 will engage with the project by recording their personal journey through the landscape to the site.
Junction Arts

 

First Light

School workshops leading to the making of a large-scale time-line map, providing an educational resource on the chronological and geographical aspects of the local magnesium landscape.
Junction Arts

 

Access and Learning

Archaeological Way

Limestone Journeys is aiming to create a multi-user off road ‘greenway’ between Pleasley and Creswell. The proposed route is 13.5 miles (22.5 km) in length and we hope to complete it by 2015.
Bolsover Countryside Partnership/Derbyshire County Council

 

Accessible Landscape

We want to work with local groups to improve the access network and to promote attractions within the Limestone Landscape.
Bolsover Countryside Partnership/Derbyshire County Council

 

Traces

Imaginary broadcasts referencing the Ice Age and present day will be broadcast or skyped between schools in rural or hard to reach communities within the Magnesium Landscape areas.
Junction Arts

 

Training and Skills

Limestone Journeys Learning Journeys

Adults and families can learn about history, the countryside, arts and crafts through fun taster sessions and short courses at various venues. Accredited training will be provided to help people develop skills for work. View the latest Limestone Learning Journeys Programme Jan - April 2012 (1)
Derbyshire Adult Community Education Service (DCC)

 

Limestone Boundaries

To protect, restore and manage hedgerows and trees in the Limestone landscape.
Limestone Journeys Team

 

Community Archaeological Investigation

This project is a unique opportunity to explore and record the local landscape. Volunteers will receive training on archaeological survey techniques and develop public outreach and interpretation from their research.
Creswell Heritage Trust