‘The Past is All Around Us’ – Heritage and Wildlife Project

In 2021, the Parish Council was awarded a grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund for a one-year project to discover more about the history and wildlife of Castle Acre. For information on future heritage activities, please e-mail anne.providence@outlook.com Below is a list of all the heritage projects we ran successfully over 10 months from November 2021 to September 2022.

– Autumn and Winter Birds
– Discovering Castle Acre’s History from Aerial Photography and Maps
– Practical Conservation of the Non-Conformist Burial Ground
– Installation of Owl, Swift and Martin nest boxes
– Workshop: Discovering the Historic Landscape 2; The Norman and Medieval Landscape
– Workshop: Discovering the Historic Landscape 3; The Landscape of Enclosure and Victorian and 20th Century Farming
– Conservation Management Plans for the Non-Conformist Burial Ground
– Conservation Tasks: Practical management of Common Land within the Parish
– Accessing Archives, research into original documents at Archive Centre, Norwich
– Examining Molehills in the Priory Field
– Finds Identification from Molehills
– Workshop: Training for Visitor Tours
– Bird Identification and Survey Techniques
– Workshop: Nonconformists in Castle Acre; Families & Chapels
– Workshop: Interpretation of historic landscape from older maps
– More Molehills Investigations
– Workshop: ‘The Work of an Archivist’ (at Castle Acre Primary School)
– Schools’ Information Packs and Activities: gathering information; drafting text; selecting images
– Workshop: Interpretation of historic landscape from older maps
– Workshop: Tracing Family and House History
– Workshop: Interpretation of historic landscape from older maps
– Plant Identification and surveying of sites in the surrounding landscape
– Workshop: Village Survey: Re-used Building Stone Training
– Investigating the Norman Defences & Medieval Town Test Pits
– Butterfly and Moth Identification in the surrounding landscape
– Workshop: Finds Identification from Test Pits and molehills
– Workshop: Caring for the Castle site
– Production of Interpretation Panels
– Workshop: Village Survey: Re-used Building Stone Survey Results
– Workshop: Interpretation of historic landscape from older maps
– Production of Interpretation Panels
– Nature Enhancement Plan for Castle Acre
– Conservation Management Plans for Commons
– Village Heritage Day

The Past is All Around Us – downloads

Conservation Management Plan
10 images from the project
Comments from project participants
Summary of results from the project
Downloadable school’s worksheets
Three Quiz sheets
Wildlife Interpretation Board
Heritage Interpretation Board