Not Just Old Buildings

Pennine Heritage is not just about old buildings and their restoration for re-use. Pennine Heritage is important to that very landscape which is the most unique feature of the South Pennines.

The South Pennines Woodland Project was an 8 year project that set out to offer help and advice to local landowners, Parish Councils, public sector landowners and others who may have had woodland which was neglected, or just wished to improve their environment by planting a new wood.

The most important aim of Pennine Heritage is that all the projects and activities taken on by the trust are done in partnership with other interested groups and associations.

To this end, Pennine Heritage has published a series of booklets, each one a complete story in itself but together forming a fully catalogued history of the “Pennine Story” – from its agrarian roots through to the illustrious industrial age when products of the region were sent across the world. No punches are pulled in telling the “Pennine Story” and teachers throughout the country have found them invaluable as an illustrated teaching aid.

The decline from glorious birthplace of the Industrial Revolution to “no-mans land” sandwiched between the Yorkshire Dales and the Peak District has been insidious. Decline and dereliction have crept through the area over the last 60 years – but no longer!

Today’s inhabitants of the South Pennines are proud of the area, proud of its history yet look forward to a revitalised future for the moors and valleys of this unique place. They are willing to fight the bureaucracy which “dumps” wind farms, pipelines, open-cast mining here when adjacent areas would prove too sensitive.