Resources
Over the four years of the Landscape Partnership, we will be adding lots of ideas, activities and guidance to help you to explore, preserve and promote the landscape of Upper Nidderdale.
Volunteering
Guidance and information supporting our volunteer projects
- Big Dig
- Moorlands: People Places Stories
- Guidance Sheet A: Introduction to the Project (V1) 366KB
- Guidance Sheet B: A brief guide to interviewing (V1) 360KB
- Guidance Sheet C: Quick Guide to using the Zoom H2next Handy Recorder (V2) 357KB
- Individual time recording sheet 14KB
- Research Participant Consent Form (V3) 122KB
- Research Participant Information Sheet (V2) 320KB
- Our Farm Heritage
- Guidance Sheet A: Introduction to the Our Farm Heritage Project (v3) 261KB
- Guidance Sheet B: Health and Safety (v1) 128KB
- Guidance Sheet C: Background Research (v2) 219KB
- Guidance Sheet D: Landscape Survey Methodology (v4) 285KB
- Guidance Sheet E: Recording Form Explained (v5) 366KB
- Guidance Sheet F: Identifying Features and Keywords (v7) 334KB
- Guidance Sheet G: Using Handheld GPS Units (v1) 215KB
- Guidance Sheet H: Post Survey Digitisation of the Data (v4) 305KB
- Guidance Sheet I: Uploading Survey Data to ArcGIS (v3) 316KB
- Guidance Sheets Dec 2016 (zipped) 2MB
- Individual time recording sheet 12KB
- Project time recording sheet 13KB
- Recording Form 259KB
- Registration Form 2015 (v1) 1590KB
- Survey Spreadsheet (v8) 13KB
Information and guidance relating to our Big Digs - Lodge in 2016 and a second excavation in 2017.
Sharing stories – listening to the past. An oral history project exploring our moorlands.
Landscape survey and research to investigate the Upper Nidderdale landscape through time. Follow this link for more information: Our Farm Heritage
Schools
- Monks & The Middle Ages
- Nidderdale Rocks
- Prehistoric Nidderdale
- Victorians & Industry
- Water & The Valley
- Image resources
A set of resources to download and print for school students
A series of PDFs to download and print for school students
A set of resources to download and print for school students
A set of resources to download and print for school students
A set of resources to download and print for school students
Colour and pen-and-ink drawings of Nidderdale in the present day. Also includes a pen-and-ink outline sketch of the valley to allow students to add their own detail
Oral Histories
The oral histories were collected by volunteers between 2016 and 2018 as part of the Moorlands: People, Places, Stories project.
- Community
- An aging community - Stephen Ramsden
- Being made welcome - Trish and Alan Robinson & Judith and Paul Ransom
- Changes in the village - Dave Mawer
- Friends in Ramsgill & affection for Nidderdale - Alec Dewar
- Lucy Harker - Trish and Alan Robinson & Paul and Judith Ransom
- The Bell Festival and school competitions - John Cameron
- The Miners Arms and Greenhow village in the 1960s - Paul Garforth
- Leisure
- Schooling
- Shooting
- War
- Way of Life
- Boggle Dike - Alec Dewar
- Calor Gas, a hot air oven and making things - Mabel Peacock & Margaret Peacock
- Clip rugs and concrete floors - Mabel Peacock & Margaret Peacock
- Digging peat - John Cameron
- Happy with your lot - Dinah Lee
- Taking over at Smithfield Farm - Willie
- The things people in town take for granted - Christine Harker
- Tup sales, Tom Whitfield and the band
- Work
Trails
Walking and cycling routes around Upper Nidderdale
- Mountain Bike Routes
- Walk Routes
- 1_Fishpond Wood 497KB
- 2_Ladies Riggs Ashfoldside 530KB
- 2_Ladies Riggs Ashfoldside Audio Trail (zipped) 17MB
- 3_Nought Moor
- 3_Nought Moor Audio Trail (zipped) 16MB
- 4_Scar House Reservoir 464KB
- 5_Scotgate Ash 573KB
- 6_Stean 517KB
- 6_Stean Audio Trail (zipped) 15MB
- 7_Toft Gate Audio Trail (zipped) 19MB
- 7_ToftGate 515KB
- 8_Wath 541KB
- 9_Woodale 498KB
- 9_Woodale Audio Trail (zipped) 16MB
- Bewerley Trees 482KB
- Fishpond Wood Audio Trail – Download Guide 180KB
- Fishpond Wood Audio Trail 19MB
- Fishpond Wood Audio Trail Map 346KB
- Victorian Gardens of Pateley 881KB
Publications and Reports
- A Lasting Legacy Leaflet - A5 version (14KB)
- Ground Nesting Birds Leaflet (573KB)
- Haymeadow Leaflet (605KB)
- Homeowners Conservation Guide (5MB)
- Landscape Archaeology Booklet (3MB)
- Moorlands Booklet (2MB)
- Wath Mill Booklet (2MB)
- Archaeological Reports
- 500 Years of Continuity and Change (9MB)
- Fishpond Wood Historic Environment Survey (2MB)
- Lodge Archaeological Survey (4MB)
- Prosperous Historic Environment Survey (8MB)
- Scar Village Historic Environment Survey (1MB)
- Studfold Big Dig Report
- The Lost Village of Lodge - Excavation of a Ruined Settlement in Upper Nidderdale (7MB)
- Landscape Matters Conference
- Landscape Partnership