Use the Dales Countryside Museum and the Historic Environment Record to help local heritage groups to research, record and promote the stories of the National Park area, including completing the enhancement of the Historic Environment Record for the new area of the National Park by 2024.
How the local partners are doing on this objective
Progress:
Through the partnership with Leeds University, dialect data sets have been created for the area on a 30-mile radius from Dales Countryside Museum. A team of oral history volunteers has been established and 33 oral history interviews have been completed, edited and shared through an exhibition, events and displays.
172km2 of LIDAR mapping has been completed in the Westmorland Dales with funding from Historic England. The mapping is being used to enhance the HER for the part of the National Park that was designated in 2016. Further surveys will be completed by March 2024.
Rationale: The Historic Environment Record (HER) is an actively managed and dynamic record of the known historical environment. The information it contains is used to inform conservation, development and land management programmes, and as a resource to both encourage greater understanding and public appreciation of the historic environment of the National Park. The HER for the new area of the National Park is less comprehensive and would benefit from enhancement. This will improve it as a knowledge base for managing the historical environment, and target future research.
Lead partner: Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority
Supporting partners: Yorkshire Dales Historic Environment Group, Historic England
Further information: YDNPA – Historic Environment Record; Dales Countryside Museum;
Cost over 5 years: £200,000
Funding shortfall: £50,000
Related objectives: A1; A6; A7, A8, A9, E3, E4
Ecosystem services: Sense of place and inspiration; Sense of history
Trade-offs: None. Information stored in the HER is used to inform decision-making.
Baseline: Extension area HER records as of 12/3/19: Monuments:6,978; Events:184; Sources:107