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Home
Discover
The Landscape
The Seascape
Nature & Wildlife
A Unique History
Timeline
Archaeology
Built Heritage
The Historic Drainage System
Unique Levels Lingo
Orchards on the Levels
Explore
Interactive Map
Places to visit
Historic Map Viewer
Online talks
Walking the Levels
Life on the Levels
Sculpture Trail
Stories from The Levels
Time and Tide
Lost Landscapes
Learning Resources
Poetry & prose
Beyond the seawall
Galleries
Living Levels gallery
Levels from the air
Levels through a lens
Video gallery
Audio gallery
Coleg Gwent Exhibition
Illustrated stories
Get Involved
What's on
Nature & Wellbeing
Wild Watch
Sense of Place Toolkit
Invasive Non-native Species
Maintaining traditional orchards
History RATS
Tenders & Quotes
Farming
Farming on the Levels
Farming with nature
Support for farming
Land Management Advice
Traditional orchards
JUSTLANZ
Sustaining the Gwent Levels
News
News
News archive
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About
The Partnership
Our funder
What we have achieved
Our vision for the future
The future of Living Levels
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Rick Turner
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View fullsize Are you looking for ways to entertain the family this summer? 🌞... Then look no further than the Gwent Levels 

Visit and explore seven locations on the Gwent Levels, using our memory treasure maps! These include information about what to look for a
View fullsize In 1993, archaeologists working on the development of a supermarket storage depot on the site of Barland’s Farm, near Magor, made an extraordinary discovery... ⛏

Unearthed beneath layers of clay, the Barland’s Farm Boat is a time capsule
View fullsize Levels Locations spotlight this week is... Hendre Lake, a hidden gem in east Cardiff! 

The open waters and reedy edges of the lake are home to a wonderful mix of wetland birds, including mallards, tufted ducks, great crested grebes, moorhens, and co
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View fullsize This weekend is your last chance to get involved with @savebutterflies's Big Butterfly Count 2025. 

Spend 15 minutes in any outdoor space and count the butterflies and day-flying moths you see - submit your sightings by Sunday 10th August 

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View fullsize For this week's Levels Location, we’re heading to the Peterstone Wentloog Marshes, where a complex mosaic of saltmarshes, mudflats, and pools form the intertidal zone of the Severn Estuary 🌊🌾

Extreme tides, shifting salinity, and fluctuating
View fullsize Discover the history of the #GwentLevels🌾

From Mesolithic hunter-gatherers to the medieval monks, devastating floods and industrial marvels of the Newport Transporter Bridge... every era has left footprints (literally!) on the landscape 👣

Explore
View fullsize This week on Levels Locations we think you should visit a stretch of the Wales Coast Path for #NationalMarineWeek2025 🌊

Feel the wind on your face, breathe in the salty air, and rediscover the beauty of the wild estuarine landscape that boarders th
View fullsize Don't forget to join us TODAY at the Newport Medieval Ship Project for their Medieval Summer Fayre - 10am till 4pm⚓️⛵

Expect...
🎭Reenactments🌾Willow weaving 🪢Rope making 🎻Sea shanties 🎨Arts and crafts ℹ Local information and guide tours

Free e
View fullsize This week on Levels Locations we think you should visit the @newport_ship for their open day 🛶⚓️

📍Saturday 26th July
⏰10-4
🎫Free entry

Expect demonstrations, crafts, activities and guided tours🏹🎨🎻🪵

Find out more - https://www.newportship.or
View fullsize Just off the M4, the stunning green spaces of the #GwentLevels are waiting to be explored! 

🦢RSPB Newport Wetlands: J24 – 6 miles/14 mins
🦆Goldcliff Lagoons & Seawall: J24 – 7 miles/15 mins 
🐝Gwent Wildlife Trust Magor Marsh: J23A
View fullsize The @savebutterflies Big Butterfly Count 2025 starts TODAY and the #GwentLevels is a great place to spot all types of butterflies and moths🦋

📆 Friday 18th July - Sunday 10th August 
🌤 Choose a sunny spot 
📋 Watch for 15 minutes and record specie
View fullsize This Week’s Levels Location: Goldcliff Lagoons!

Tucked into the eastern edge of the Newport Wetlands National Nature Reserve, Goldcliff Lagoons is a hidden gem created in the late '90s. Surrounded by a mosaic of habitats - wet grasslands, reed
View fullsize A lovely and very warm morning at Magor Marsh on our dragonfly and damselfly walk celebrating one year since the @britishdragonflysociety hotspot launch 🌾🌿🌱🐉

We saw 5 different species including the Southern Hawker and Azure Damselfly and even f
View fullsize This week on Levels Locations we think you should visit @rspbnewportwetlands as part of #DragonflyWeek2025 🌾🌿

Join us on Sunday 13th to celebrate 1 year since the launch of Newport Wetlands as an official Dragonfly Hotspot! 

The day will be jam-p
View fullsize There are still spaces left on our Dragonfly & Damselfly Walk for @walesnatureweek 🌿🌱🍃

📅Thursday 10th July ⏰10-11:30am 📍Magor Marsh

👣 Led by Chris Harris, Living Levels Programme Manager and County Dragonfly Recorder for Hereford, so you&
View fullsize It’s #dragonflyweek and the #gwentlevels are a great place to see all sorts of dragonflies and damselflies! 

@rspbnewportwetlands and @gwentwildlifetrust's Magor Marsh were designated as official @britishdragonflysociety Hotspots in 2024, so w
View fullsize ‼️New event alert‼️

Join the Living Levels team for a laid back discovery walk at Magor Marsh, bringing you closer to dragonflies and damselflies, as we celebrate the site's first anniversary as a designated @britishdragonflysociety hotspot and Drag
View fullsize 🗺️ The Levels Locations spotlight this week is... Caldicot Castle 🏰 

Tucked away at the far edge of the #GwentLevels, this magnificent fortress has watched over the landscape for more than 800 years.

From its beginnings with the Earl of Hereford,
View fullsize Time’s ticking⏳

Don’t miss your chance to share your opinions about the #GwentLevels and enter our prize draw to win one of three amazing prizes... ⭐

- A pair of binoculars 
- A bespoke guided experience at the RSPB Newport Wetlands 
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The Living Levels Partnership was formed in 2014 to promote and protect the Gwent Levels. We are a cross-organisational partnership, spanning administrative boundaries, working closely with communities and other stakeholders towards the sustainable management of this landscape.

 

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