The Severn Estuary Through Time shows how the Estuary, its wildlife and the people living beside it, have shaped each other over millennia.
The animation was commissioned by A Forgotten Landscape and produced by The Jessop Consultancy.
Once an infamous flytipping blackspot, the Road to Nature has been transformed into a fantastic haven for wildlife and people.
People have been crossing the Severn Estuary for thousands of years. Until recently, it was a perilous thing to do.
After a long absence, Marsh Harriers are once again resident (and breeding) on the Gwent Levels.
Using the 1881 census and contemporary historical sources, the History RATS have produced a series of portraits of parishes on the Levels in the late 19th century.
History RATS Glyn Parkhouse recounts the story of the coming of the railway to the Gwent Levels.
History RATS Marjorie Neal recounts the history of Caerphilly cheese making on the Wentlooge Levels.
Tony Hopkins, former county archivist at Gwent Archives and one of our History RATS, considers the effects of Henry VIII’s policies on Monmouthshire and the Gwent Levels.
Local farmer and member of the History RATS, David Waters, whose family have lived on the Levels since the 1600s, shares his memories of living and working alongside Monk’s Ditch.

