Intellectual access
Through voluntary activity on our other BR projects, we will be gathering information and evidence to show how our landscape evolved through human and environmental activity over the centuries. We want you to share these findings and gain a better understanding of how and why our landscape looks as it does today, and what we need to do to preserve it for the future.
The 5 projects in this theme are:
Latrigg Miles without Stiles
This project has created the first high level ‘Access for All’ path on Latrigg Fell, one of our most popular viewpoints. On a clear day you get panoramic views of the whole catchment and beyond. Scafell Pike, to Penrith, to the coast, it’s endless! We wanted to make this high level path with spectacular views accessible to everyone; and we have! The path is almost one kilometre in length and is wheelchair, pushchair, family, walker and even dog friendly!
The path is complete so get out there and enjoy it!
Project Leader: Lake District National Park Authority
Round Derwentwater Walk
This project is creating a new boardwalk around the southern end of Derwentwater. This boardwalk links to the existing all-weather footpath along the western shore of Derwentwater, and provides access for wheelchair users and families with pushchairs.
The new boardwalk is made from recycled plastic bottles and is replacing an existing narrow walkway, which is high maintenance and often dangerous when wet.
Providing a wider boardwalk not only improves access, but it also benefits the environment. We should no longer see erosion caused by people stepping off the walkway to pass each other.
Project Leader: National Trust
Mountain to Lakeshore Walks
This project will follow the path of a rain drop, telling the story of how the landscape has been shaped by the elements and man over the centuries.
With the help from our other Bassenthwaite Reflections projects we will be gathering historical, cultural and environmental information based around 3 walking routes in the catchment. This information will be translated into different forms of interpretation to share that story.
As you walk along the routes, we want you to understand why the landscape looks as it does today, and what we need to do to preserve it for the future.
Project Leader: Bassenthwaite Reflections
Birds eye View
This project takes on the focus from our Ospreys.
The Lake District Osprey Project (LDOP) volunteers will convey catchment messages to the passionate bird watchers who visit the Osprey viewing points.
This project will also provide sustainable transport around Bassenthwaite Lake. Our new bus service will link the osprey viewing points (Whinlatter and Dodd), with other visitor attractions around the lake, including the Dubwath Silver Meadows wetland reserve (another of our Reflections projects).
We want to provide a means for visitors explore this beautiful area without impacting on the environment they enjoy so much. The service will start in 2008 and will run at weekends from the 1st April to 1st September and every day over the Easter and summer holidays.
So leave your cars at home and travel the sustainable way
Upstream
This is an exciting exchange programme in which young people, aged between 16 and 25, undertake a week long journey through both the Bassenthwaite catchment, and a catchment in one of our European exchange countries.
This project is an excellent way for young people with a taste for adventure to get in touch with their environment. The journeys take in various modes of transport, and participants take home a clearer understanding of the cultural and environmental comparisons between the two countries. Looking specifically at culture, farming, pollution, sustainability and nature conservation.
This year 6 young Cumbrians joined 7 young Slovakians on journeys through the Bassenthwaite catchment, and the Ipel catchment in southern Slovakia.
Conservation activities included; working on a wetland nature reserve, learning traditional skills (Slovakian and Cumbrian), studying a Slovakian village’s carbon footprint and learning about the importance of hill farming in Cumbria, and how it helped shape our landscape today.
Get involved
We have 2 journeys taking place each year over the next 2 years. If you live in the Bassenthwaite catchment and want to join us. Get in touch
Project leader: Bassenthwaite Reflections
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