{"id":1435,"date":"2016-09-26T11:44:46","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T11:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foresttown-net.stackstaging.com\/?page_id=1435"},"modified":"2019-02-16T18:45:14","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T18:45:14","slug":"heritageproject","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/foresttown.net\/index.php\/heritageproject\/","title":{"rendered":"Spa Ponds Heritage Project: Celebrating 700 years of history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Thanks to all who took part in the project. P<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">lease check out:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=0Bxx0kdC79NtxdGtsY1dvOWhiU28\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The Heritage Management Plan and appendices<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\" data-tadv-p=\"keep\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/SpaPondsHeritage\/\">The Spa Ponds Heritage Facebook group<\/a>&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Project overview<\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1491\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1491\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/foresttown.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Market-Xmas-C5D_5995.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1491\" src=\"https:\/\/foresttown.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Market-Xmas-C5D_5995-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Lorraine and Rose stood in front of a project display board.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foresttown.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Market-Xmas-C5D_5995-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foresttown.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Market-Xmas-C5D_5995-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/foresttown.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Market-Xmas-C5D_5995-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/foresttown.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Market-Xmas-C5D_5995.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1491\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laine and Rose letting folk know about the project at the Forest Town Craft Market in November 2016.&nbsp;Photo by Dennis Platts released under&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/3.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CC BY-NC<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Spa Ponds Nature Reserve is owned and managed by the Forest Town Nature Conservation Group (FTNCG), and is open to the public at all times.<\/p>\n<p>This year-long project focusing on the heritage of Spa Ponds (also known as &#8216;Gara Ponds&#8217;) is taking place 700 years after the creation of the medieval fish ponds.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/foresttown.net\/index.php\/heritageproject\/heritage-management-plan-for-spa-ponds\/\">Heritage Management Plan<\/a>&nbsp;produced as part of this project will guide FTNCG&#8217;s management Spa Ponds, complementing our existing <a href=\"http:\/\/foresttown.net\/nature\/Spa_Ponds_March_2015_Habitat_Management_Plan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ecology Management Plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1357\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1357\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/foresttown.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/FTNCG-Spa-Ponds-Map-for-Website-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1357 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/foresttown.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/FTNCG-Spa-Ponds-Map-for-Website-1-300x189.png\" alt=\"Map of Spa Ponds Nature Reservation\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foresttown.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/FTNCG-Spa-Ponds-Map-for-Website-1-300x189.png 300w, https:\/\/foresttown.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/FTNCG-Spa-Ponds-Map-for-Website-1-768x485.png 768w, https:\/\/foresttown.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/FTNCG-Spa-Ponds-Map-for-Website-1-1024x647.png 1024w, https:\/\/foresttown.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/FTNCG-Spa-Ponds-Map-for-Website-1.png 1308w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1357\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Map of Spa Ponds Nature Reserve (present day)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The project will provide participants with training and guidance from historians and community archaeologists, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mbarchaeology.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MBArchaeology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To better appreciate Spa Ponds&#8217; heritage value, participants will develop an understanding of the basics of <a href=\"https:\/\/foresttown.net\/index.php\/heritageproject\/research\/\">archaeological and historical research<\/a> and landscape fieldwork, and will explore written records in archives, libraries and museums.<\/p>\n<p>We will also gather memories, photographs and artefacts of the site, including through the project&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/foresttown.net\/index.php\/heritageproject\/research\/#oralhistories\">Oral Histories element<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Forest Town Nature Conservation Group received a Heritage Lottery Fund Sharing Heritage grant of \u00a38,500 to help us pay for this project<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1493\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1493\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/foresttown.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/FTNCG-C5D_5417.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1493\" src=\"https:\/\/foresttown.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/FTNCG-C5D_5417-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Matt Beresford introducing the project to FTNCG members\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foresttown.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/FTNCG-C5D_5417-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foresttown.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/FTNCG-C5D_5417-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/foresttown.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/FTNCG-C5D_5417-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/foresttown.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/FTNCG-C5D_5417.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1493\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matt Beresford of MBArchaeology talking to FTNCG members in November 2016.&nbsp;Photo taken by Shlomo Dowen&nbsp;and released under the <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/3.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CC BY-NC 3.0<\/a> license.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Experts will provide mentoring support and deliver about a dozen workshops and training sessions in 2017 covering:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trees and Natural Heritage (May\/June)<\/li>\n<li>Landscape Surveying (June)<\/li>\n<li>Day School exploring the Mediaeval Landscape of Sherwood (7 July)<\/li>\n<li>How to Present Findings (September)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foresttown.net\/index.php\/heritageproject\/project-description\/\">Click here for a more detailed description of project<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foresttown.net\/index.php\/heritageproject\/training\/\">Click here for more details about the training opportunities<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foresttown.net\/index.php\/category\/sphp\/\">Show all news for the Spa Ponds Heritage Project<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foresttown.net\/index.php\/heritageproject\/diary-dates\/\">See diary dates for the whole project<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><a id=\"getinvolved\" name=\"getinvolved\"><\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to all who took part in the project. 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