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
Severn Estuary through time
Severn Estuary through time

The Severn Estuary Through Time video shows how the Estuary, its wildlife and the people living beside it, have shaped each other over millennia.

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Common cranes
Common cranes

After an absence of around 400 years, common cranes are once more nesting on the Levels.

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Reading the landscape

Maps can tell us a lot about the history of our landscape, if you know how to ‘read’ them.

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Great Traston Meadow SSSI
Great Traston Meadow SSSI

Great Traston Meadow nature reserve is an example of grazing marsh, a traditional type of landscape on the Levels.

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The Newport Ship
The Newport Ship

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.

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Goldcliff Priory
Goldcliff Priory

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.

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Starling murmurations
Starling murmurations

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.

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Newport Wetlands NNR
Newport Wetlands NNR

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.

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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
Shrill carder bee

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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News
Job opportunity for a Programme Manager (maternity cover)
Job opportunity for a Programme Manager (maternity cover)

RSPB Cymru is seeking to recruit a Programme Manager (maternity cover), to lead the Living Levels Partnership Scheme (RSPB led) on the Gwent Levels, funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Getting down and dirty on the foreshore throws up Bronze Age bones!
Getting down and dirty on the foreshore throws up Bronze Age bones!

Over the past four days, a group of archaeology enthusiasts have been taking part in an excavation of Bronze Age artefacts (2300 BC to 750 BC) on the foreshore of the Severn Estuary at Peterstone, on the Wentlooge Levels.

Job opportunity for a Volunteering Coordinator
Job opportunity for a Volunteering Coordinator

Gwent Wildlife Trust is seeking to recruit a 4 day a week Volunteering Coordinator for a fixed 2-year contract, as part of the Living Levels Partnership Scheme (RSPB led) on the Gwent Levels, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Focus on Willow - family fun at Magor Marsh
Focus on Willow - family fun at Magor Marsh

On 23 February, over 160 people turned out to Magor Marsh to learn about some ancient willow craft skills of the Levels in an event organised by the Living Levels Partnership and Gwent Wildlife Trust.
History 'RATS' start work to recapture historic landscapes of the Gwent Levels!

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!

From Stanks to Stout
From Stanks to Stout

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.

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.

 

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