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£2.8 million Wye Valley windfall
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| Wye Valley AONB Officer Andrew Blake who has welcomed the lottery grant |
FORTY projects across the picturesque Wye Valley will benefit from a Lottery windfall of £2.8 million.
The Wye Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty was successful in a bid for Heritage Lottery Fund cash.
The money will now be allocated to heritage projects in the "Overlooking the Wye" Landscape Partnership Scheme, to improve and promote historic sites throughout the area.
The range and variety of the projects covers themes of industrial heritage, the picturesque movement and viewpoints, river corridors and hillfort archaeology.
Individual projects in the three-year scheme include a £43,000 restoration of the Abbey Mill Waterwheel industrial complex at Tintern, and a £187,000 refurbishment of the Victorian Tintern Old Station.
Andrew Blake, Wye Valley AONB officer, said: "We are delighted that the Heritage Lottery Fund has enabled this work to take place.
"We are looking forward to working with all the partners and community groups who helped develop the scheme, and will be involved in getting the projects off the ground as soon as the formalities are finalised."
For further details about individual HLF projects and events visit www.wyevalleyaonb.org.uk.
8:52am Friday 28th March 2008
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CommentPosted by: Chris on 10:33am Fri 28 Mar 08
The former Gwent CC did a great job in preserving the Old Railway Station. It's such a pity there are no trains going there any more, and there is now no chance that they ever will again, after the link to the main line was severed by Network Rail recently.
It would have had the capacity to take so many cars off the roads to Tintern. Road traffic in this beautiful valley is one of its most serious threats and has the potential to undermine all the good work being done.
The former Gwent CC did a great job in preserving the Old Railway Station. It's such a pity there are no trains going there any more, and there is now no chance that they ever will again, after the link to the main line was severed by Network Rail recently.
It would have had the capacity to take so many cars off the roads to Tintern. Road traffic in this beautiful valley is one of its most serious threats and has the potential to undermine all the good work being done.
Posted by: bmw on 6:10pm Fri 28 Mar 08
yawn ..trains trains trains....we need cars
yawn ..trains trains trains....we need cars
Posted by: Chris on 7:55pm Fri 28 Mar 08
I think you've missed the point, bmw. No doubt, on purpose.
I think you've missed the point, bmw. No doubt, on purpose.
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