The HLF is giving some £1.3 million to two upland projects in Cumbria, one of them the county's Hay Meadows Project which plans to use the money to restore 65 hectares of meadowland, and train staff and volunteers to monitor the health of the county's whole estate of this kind of habitat. It is not a vast area but then neither is the UK's total of upland meadow; England has an estimated 1000 hectares and Scotland, the land of heather and thistle, only around 100.
They date back more than 2000 years but have suffered dramatic attrition in the last half-century through ever more intensive farming and land management. Surveys have found that fewer than five percent of those in the Yorkshire Dales can still be described as 'herb rich' and the Peak District lost three quarters of those recorded in the 1980s by the end of the following decade.
They date back more than 2000 years but have suffered dramatic attrition in the last half-century through ever more intensive farming and land management. Surveys have found that fewer than five percent of those in the Yorkshire Dales can still be described as 'herb rich' and the Peak District lost three quarters of those recorded in the 1980s by the end of the following decade.
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