Recapturing, enhancing and celebrating The Gwent Levels

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What is Living Levels?

The Living Levels Landscape Partnership (LLLP) is a Heritage Lottery Funded (HLF) Landscape Partnership Scheme which aims to reconnect people and communities to the Gwent Levels landscape and provide a sustainable future for this historic and unique area.

Explore our website to find out how our partners will be working together and with the community over three and a half years (from early in 2018), and how you can get involved with one of the exciting projects taking place in and around the landscape.

Watch our film about the amazing Gwent Levels landscape and the exciting work Living Levels will be delivering.

Stories
Lave net fishing: A 21st Century salmon fishery
Lave net fishing: A 21st Century salmon fishery

Lave netting is an ancient method of salmon fishing first recorded on the Severn Estuary in the 1700s.

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Shrill carder bee (Bombus sylvarum)
Shrill carder bee (Bombus sylvarum)

The shrill carder bee is one of the UK’s rarest bumblebees, and is now only found in 7 areas in Wales and southern England.

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St Cadwalladr's, Bishton
St Cadwalladr's, Bishton

The village church of Bishton is more than 600 years old. Yet its full name – the Church of St Cadwaladr – demonstrates far older origins.

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Newport Transporter Bridge
Newport Transporter Bridge

The remarkable Newport Transporter Bridge is one of only six operational transporter bridges left world wide from a total of twenty constructed.

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Tredegar House and the Morgans
Tredegar House and the Morgans

This imposing mansion is one of the most historically important 17th century houses in Britain, home of the Morgan family for over 500 years.

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Prehistoric Gwent Levels
Prehistoric Gwent Levels

Imagine standing near the sea wall at Goldcliff 10,000 years ago. What would you see?

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The Great Flood, 1607
The Great Flood, 1607

On 30th January 1607, sea walls either side of the Severn Estuary were overwhelmed by flood waters.

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The Goldcliff Stone
The Goldcliff Stone

In 1878, an inscribed Roman era stone, known as the 'Goldcliff Stone', was discovered near the sea wall at Goldcliff.

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Court of Sewers
Court of Sewers

In 1531, King Henry VIII passed the Act of Sewers, creating Commissioners and Courts of Sewers.

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Sea Wall
Sea Wall

Without the sea wall the Gwent Levels simply could not exist.

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News
Newport Wetlands celebrates ‘Big Skies’!
Newport Wetlands celebrates ‘Big Skies’!

Over 100 people braved inclement weather to enjoy the inaugural ‘Big Skies’ artistic celebration event for the Gwent Levels at Newport Wetlands performed by Tin Shed Theatre!

Enforcement action to increase against fly-tipping following community clean-up of Green Lane!
Enforcement action to increase against fly-tipping following community clean-up of Green Lane!

Thanks to the coordinated efforts of partners and volunteers, nearly two tonnes of fly-tipping and litter was removed from Green Lane, Marshfield over two days in November.

Green Lane (Heol Las) Reen Clean and Community Litter Pick November 9th
Green Lane (Heol Las) Reen Clean and Community Litter Pick November 9th

As part of the Living Levels Black Spots to Bright Spots project, the partners are organising a clear up of the reen on November 8th on Green Lane and a community litter pick up on Friday 9th November from 09:30am-11.45am.

A staggering 1032 visitors ‘unlocked’ the history of the Gwent Levels at our flagship History day last month!
A staggering 1032 visitors ‘unlocked’ the history of the Gwent Levels at our flagship History day last month!

Our flagship event was part of Cadw’s Open Doors month and took place on September 29th and attracted 1032 visitors.

Construction Plant Competence Scheme training underway with 12 Local contractors participating
Construction Plant Competence Scheme training underway with 12 Local contractors participating

Thanks to Heritage Lottery funding, we are proud to announce that we have been able to support 12 agricultural contractors local to the Gwent Levels to take part in the Construction Plant Competence Scheme (CPCS).

Calling all Oral History professionals!
Calling all Oral History professionals!

Would you like to lead a fantastic project under the Living Levels Landscape Partnership programme which will capture and record the memories of a range of different communities living in the historic and unique Gwent Levels landscape?

Mind your Bees and Peas-Shrill Carder bee training with the Pollinators project!
Mind your Bees and Peas-Shrill Carder bee training with the Pollinators project!

Intrepid Pollinator volunteers were put through their Bee Identification paces by BumbleBee Conservation Trust’s Sinead Lynch at a windswept Newport Wetlands this week…

Prehistoric fun as we ‘Get Messy with the Mesolithic’ this summer!
Prehistoric fun as we ‘Get Messy with the Mesolithic’ this summer!

The chance for children (and adults) to experience life as our ancestors did on the Gwent Levels up to 10,000 years ago…

Chris Packs-‘em-in despite threat of Alien Invasion
Chris Packs-‘em-in despite threat of Alien Invasion

‘BioBlitz the Wetlands’ on Saturday July 21st attracted 1,217 visitors to Newport Wetlands, with Chris Packham and the UK BioBlitz team touching down in the afternoon…

Summer fun on the Levels at Magor Marsh Family Fun day!
Summer fun on the Levels at Magor Marsh Family Fun day!

On Saturday 14th July 200 local people descended upon Gwent Wildlife Trust’s Magor Marsh Nature Reserve to enjoy an afternoon of activities for all the family.

 

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