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With the King’s coronation getting closer by the day, it’s not only grand processions and glitzy concerts that we have to look forward to. It’s not just that extra bank holiday, either.
Nature lovers, rejoice – because 100 new meadows will be created around some of England’s best-known landmarks – including at Stonehenge and Barnard Castle – to honour the King’s coronation.
The project is a collaboration with English Heritage and conservation charity Plantlife. It aims to restore the flower-rich grasslands, which were wiped out by industrialisation and modern farming, to their former glory over the next ten years.
‘In a decade’s time, our coronation pledge will be an inspiring legacy of established, restored and new meadows at 100 of our historic sites – big and small – right across England,’ English Heritage chief executive Kate Mavor told The Times.
‘We hope that it will encourage local communities to get involved and help transform their local heritage sites into flower-rich meadows, which, in turn, will improve the quality and diversity of other grassland in the local area.’
Sites included in the scheme are Down House (the former home of Charles Darwin in Kent), Boscobel in Shropshire, Castle Acre Priory in Norfolk, Okehampton Castle in Devon and Jewel Tower in Westminster.
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