

Grab your walking boots – real or virtual – and discover a different side of the Cotswolds / Enfilez
Many of us think of the Cotswolds as an area with beautiful villages, rolling green fields and drystone walls, but what about the rest of the story? What wildlife is hiding in the hedge rows? What communities lived here thousands of years ago? How are farmers looking after the land to protect its history and wildlife alongside their livelihoods? If these are questions that interest you, then why not take a walk with the REFIT Project’s new digital resources. Don’t worry if yo


Bagendon: Getting to the core! / Bagendon: ¡llegando al núcleo! / Bagendon : Aller au noyau !
On the 1st of October, in the pouring autumn rain, a group of local residents, farmers and landowners from the Bagendon area got together to explore the story of the Bagendon landscape. With help from Past Environment expert Mike Allen, the group investigated the stories about past land use and environmental change that are hidden in the soil. Using hand augers, everyone had a go a taking and analysing soil cores and learnt just how much information we can glean about the pas