Recapturing, enhancing and celebrating The Gwent Levels
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.
After an absence of around 400 years, common cranes are once more nesting on the Levels.
Maps can tell us a lot about the history of our landscape, if you know how to ‘read’ them.
Great Traston Meadow nature reserve is an example of grazing marsh, a traditional type of landscape on the Levels.
In 2002, during construction of the Newport Riverfront Arts Centre on the west bank of the River Usk, the remains of a 15th century ship were discovered.
In about 1113, the Norman Lord of Caerleon, Robert de Chandos, granted land at Goldcliff for the founding of the Benedictine Priory of St Mary Magdalene.
Head down to Newport Wetlands just before dusk in Autumn or Winter and you could be in for one of the most spectacular displays in nature - a starling murmuration.
Sitting on the edge of the Gwent Levels, between the wide expanse of the Severn Estuary and the mouth of the River Usk, lies the Newport Wetlands National Nature Reserve.
Lave netting is an ancient method of salmon fishing first recorded on the Severn Estuary in the 1700s.
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.
The village church of Bishton is more than 600 years old. Yet its full name – the Church of St Cadwaladr – demonstrates far older origins.
Our major new volunteering project has started with a kick-off meeting on February 13th attended by a whopping 24 enthusiastic volunteers from all ends of the Levels!
Living Levels and the Anglo-Oregon Brewing Company have launched Stank Hen, a new beer, to promote the distinct vocabulary and character of the Gwent Levels and an exciting new volunteer project.
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!
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.
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.
Our flagship event was part of Cadw’s Open Doors month and took place on September 29th and attracted 1032 visitors.
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).
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?
Intrepid Pollinator volunteers were put through their Bee Identification paces by BumbleBee Conservation Trust’s Sinead Lynch at a windswept Newport Wetlands this week…
The chance for children (and adults) to experience life as our ancestors did on the Gwent Levels up to 10,000 years ago…
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