Gallery
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Commons
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Nature
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People
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Commoning systems
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Climate resilient landscapes
Commons
Bampton Common, Lake District
Combestone Tor, Holne Common, Dartmoor
Pony on Longmynd, Shropshire Hills
Highest point on Stiperstones
Leeden Tor on Walkhampton Common, Dartmoor
Looking down on the Duddoin Valley from Wallabarrow Crag, Lake District
Malham view Yorkshire Dales
Ponies on Yar Tor
Saddle Tor and Haytor Rocks beyond the wall above Widecombe in the Moor
The Cockpit Stone Circle Cumbria
Views eastwards towards Church Stretton from Longmynd
Walkhampton Common, Dartmoor
Winter on Helvellyn and Striding Edge seen from Dollywagon Pike, Lake District
Nature
Ann Willcocks revealing the abundance of dung beetle present on her south Dartmoor farm
Birch Tree in a winter landscape in the Derwent Valley image by Rob Fraser
Challacombe meadows, Dartmoor
Clive Turner with minotaur dung beetles Dartmoor
Curlew on water
Green hairstreak butterfly on Clee Liberty Common, Shropshire
Harford Moor mosses in and grass wet underfoot
Small Pearl Bordered Fritillary (credit National Trust Images Rob Coleman)
Holne trees survey
Marsh Fritillary (credit Dartmoor National Park Authority)
Molinia control tracking
Ring Ouzel (credit Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority
River Erme Dartmoor
Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary (Credit Dartmoor National Park Authority)
Sphagnum moss
Whinchat (Credit Chris Townend)
Woodland below Walkhampton Common (credit Rob Fraser)
People
Commoner, sarah Hoggarth checking her flock of rough fell sheep at tipping time, when the rams are put to the ewe. (Credit Rob Fraser)
Craig Fearon carrying a tired lamb down the Langstrath Valley during a gather off the commons
Craig Fearon signs to take on the landlord_s flock as part of taking on the tenancy of Nook Farm, Borrowdale. The farm is owned by the National Trust
Farmer Matt Betton was contracted as part of the Our Upland Commons project to work as a shepherd on Stiperstones Common (part of the National Nature Reserve) in Shropshire
Simon Cooter, Senior Reserves Manager, Stiperstones National Nature Reserve, Shropshire Hills
Hill farmers on Langstrath common checking for sheep on the fells as part of a gather
Izzy Bell, agricultural student who helps out with John Heighway on his Shropshire hill farm one day a week
John Heighway checking the ponies that run on Clee Liberty Common
Judging Herdiwcks at the Keswick Spring Fair
Lake District commoner Craig Fearon with dogs and sheep (credit Rob Fraser)
Lake District commoner
Martin Stallard Dry Stone Walling
Pony drift discussion (credit Rob Fraser)
Shearing crew at work at East Okement Farm, Dartmoor
Tess Hallet grazes her flock of Welsh ewes on Stapeley Common, Shropshire
Commoning systems
New sheep pens have replaced old, to help continue the tradition of commoning and gathering the sheep off the fells (Credit Rob Fraser)
Nick Gill checking the sheep as the enter the sorting race
Pony Drift off Widdecombe Common
Restoring one of the sheep folds on Brantfell common
Shepherds meeting on the summit of Ingleborough at the start of a sheep gather
Bringing devon red catlle back to the home farm, Dartmoor
Cattle on Holne Common, Dartmoor
closing in on the herdwicks in the show pen at Patterdale Sheep Show
Dartmoor ponies
Gathering the sheep off Kinniside Common, Lake District
Herdwick ewes being sorted on a farm in the Borrowdale Valley, Lake District
Kewsick Spring Fair. Holding a tup still for judging.
Kevin Halliday marking one of his herdwick lambs that run onto Kinniside
Lizzie Weir helping to drive the herdwick flock into the sorting pens at the end of a gather from Kinniside Common
Climate-resilient landscapes
Brant Fell natural flood management work. Leaky barriers, made from the logs, slow down and intercept the movement of water.
Derwent Water with water levels that rise after rainfall Image by Rob Fraser
Different kinds of dams to slow the flow
Hedgelaying at Scorriton, south Dartmoor
River Dart below Holne Moor
Looking across a patch of bog asphodel on Lingmoor across to the Coniston fells,
On Dartmoor Holne commoners, led by farmer John French, restored an historic and important waterway
Peat bog restoration work on Ockerton Court, north Dartmoor
Pools forming where diggers have created bunds as part of peatland restoration on Dartmoors upland commons
Rewetting the land these plants are a good sign
Becky Willson of Farm Carbon Toolkit holding a session at Kinniside Common for graziers and land managers on the importance of healthy grasslands to storing carbon