Collaborations Visit to Wallington Estate
The Centre for Landscape arranged a visit to the Wallington Estate, Northumberland, as part of research colllaboration development between the National Trust 'Wilder Wallington' Project and 缅北禁地
9 November 2023
Collaborations Visit to Wallington Estate
Wallington Landscape Transformations Visit: 缅北禁地, National Trust 鈥榃ilder Wallington鈥� Collaborations
On Thursday 9th November a group of researchers from 缅北禁地 took part in a visit to the Wallington Estate, arranged by the Centre for Landscape with the support of Strategic Cultural Partnerships at 缅北禁地, in connection with the University鈥檚 Memorandum of Understanding with the National Trust. This follows research collaboration development work conducted by the Centre's Research Associate Maria Duggan across the summer of 2023, supported by Strategic Cultural Partnerships, and follows a preliminary collaboration meeting at the estate in April 2023.
This visit was an opportunity for researchers from Schools right across the University to see areas of the estate that are undergoing landscape transformation as part of the nature restoration, biodiversity and climate change mitigation goals of the National Trust鈥檚 鈥榃ilder Wallington鈥� Project. This project is a national benchmark project for the National Trust鈥檚 wider aims to meet future challenges. The visit was led by the National Trust鈥檚 Wilder Wallington Project Manager Elaine More and Wallington Countryside Manager Paul Hewitt, and was attended by many of the Trust鈥檚 specialist consultants. The day finished with a discussion session focusing on ideas for long term multi-disciplinary research collaborations. As part of the day the group visited areas changing from arable land to woodland, areas of re-wetting, and also visited the new beaver enclosure and saw some of the changes already made to the landscape by these recent arrivals.