We asked you to send us your photos from around the Land of the Fanns using ‘wish for the future’ as the theme. We received lots of fantastic entries and some beautiful wishes, but we can only choose three winners… 1st place is Colin Page with ‘Life in the gutter’
The Land of the Fanns Landscape Partnership Scheme has achieved fantastic outcomes across heritage focused projects over the past few years!
Volunteer researchers find evidence of surviving features in the landscape The Land of the Fanns are delighted to be able to reveal exciting developments in our Designed Landscape project with the discovery at Belhus Park in Thurrock of the remains of Tudor and Jacobean gardens. We are working with Historic
Like many organisations, Orchards Community Forum in Grays had to suspend all activities during lockdown. As secretary, I found it incredibly frustrating – the Forum had only been resurrected less than 18 months earlier. Getting involved in vital community activities because of the pandemic inevitably meant putting a hold on
The Land of the Fanns Landscape Partnership Scheme has launched an easy to use one-stop online resource for teachers and home learners that will encourage young people to explore and discover the great outdoors. Time spent outdoors is a fantastic way to change pace, boost energy levels and bring a
The Land of the Fanns Landscape Partnership Scheme has achieved fantastic outcomes across environment focused projects over the past few years!
The Land of the Fanns is delighted to announce that well-known author and social historian Ken Worpole has brought his considerable talent and thought to the new book which captures the essence of the area and sums up everything that the five year Landscape Partnership Scheme has been about: Fens,
The Land of the Fanns Landscape Partnership Scheme has worked with Thames21 and the London Borough of Havering to install a new natural flood management scheme at Bedfords Park with the help of a four-legged worker, literally horse power. Roy, a magnificent Suffolk Punch horse from local contractors Hawthorn Heavy
Cely Woods is a 140-acre Forestry England site located near Ockendon. It is former arable farmland and in the early 2000s it was planted with a mixture of native broadleaf tree species to create a woodland part of the Thames Chase Community Forest. Cely Woods is surrounded by ancient woodland
Saturday 22 May – Sunday 6 June What stories lie waiting to be discovered in the landscape around us? Where are the special places that evoke memories and recall past histories? Who are the characters that have enlivened and shaped the land? The 185 square kilometres of the Land of
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