Lindow Man
The Body in the Bog – Interpreting Lindow Man
Lindow Moss Exhibition
Thanks to all who voted for us in our bid to win funding in the Skipton Building Society’s ‘Grass Roots Giving’ community programme. We were successful!
We are grateful to Skipton’s generosity, enabling us to follow up the successful Lindow Moss Day School at Wilmslow Guild with an exhibition at Wilmslow Library. This is showing on the gallery during Library opening hours until Saturday 31 January 2015.
The exhibition launches Transition Wilmslow’s ‘A New Vision for Lindow Moss’, highlighting its historic and environmental importance.
It is one of the most significant peatland landscapes in Britain, yet it remains abused, neglected and officially unrecognised. Transition Wilmslow and our partners are coming together as the Lindow Moss Partnership, and creating a vision to restore, conserve, and celebrate this unique landscape.
Why not take a break from your shopping, enjoy the warmth of Wilmslow Library and learn more about Transition Wilmslow and our Vision for Lindow Moss!
See the report on the Day School at http://tinyurl.com/ofue6fu
Wilmslow Library opening times here http://tinyurl.com/prlqesp
Learn More About Lindow Moss
We Want Your Vote For Wilmslow!
Two Wilmslow groups shortlisted for community funding
Great news! Skipton Building Society ‘Grassroots Giving Campaign’ have 161 grants of £500 each for projects that enhance local communities – and Transition Wilmslow and Wilmslow Community Archaeology have been shortlisted for entry into the final voting stage!
Voting opened on 1st September and runs until mid October. You can vote for any of the shortlisted projects by clicking on http://www.skiptongrg.co.uk/ and see the amazing work going on across the country. Vote for both of the Wilmslow contenders and you will be supporting their work to improve our local environment.
If successful, we at Transition Wilmslow would use the funding to help local people understand more about the amazing landscape on their doorstep, in particular Lindow Moss, an area of exceptional archaeological and ecological significance. The funds would help to pay for a mobile exhibition of photographs with explanatory text that could tour schools, churches and community spaces. This would support a campaign to restore the moss, to protect the landscape, provide access for walkers, cyclists and those with disabilities, and provide an educational resource and a green lung for Wilmslow. Transition Wilmslow have already held a workshop for interested groups, and had a very successful Dawn walk on 2nd August with more than 40 local people to celebrate the discovery of the body of Lindow Man.
Vote for Transition Wilmslow on http://www.skiptongrg.co.uk/apply-for-funding/whos-applying/north-west/transition-wilmslow/.
Thank you!
Also why not book your place on the Day School ‘Lindow Moss: Origins and Future Prospects’ at the Wilmslow Guild with Professor John Handley, Saturday, 18 October 2014? For more information and booking details see page 62 of the Wilmslow Guild Prospectus
Lindow Moss Dawn Walk: Report and photos
Lindow Moss is a site of immense archeological and ecological significance, and Transition Wilmslow is at the centre of an exciting venture to restore it as a place of recreation, exercise and learning for local people. As part of a series of events to raise awareness of the importance of the Moss, we had a Dawn walk on the 2nd August led by John Handley. As well as evocative readings about the Moss and Lindow Man, we joined the Wildwood seed group in their moving celebration of our Bog Ancestors, the people who lived and died on the Moss.
Photographs from the Lindow Moss dawn walk taken by Chris Hill.
There’s more coverage of the anniversary of the discovery of Lindow Man (and our work) on wilmslow.co.uk. And also a piece on the BBC website.
Next up is our Day School at Wilmslow Guild on 18th October! If you are interested in helping with the Lindow Moss work, please contact us.
Dawn Walk on Lindow Moss – 2 August 2014
This year is the 30th anniversary of the discovery, on the bog, of Lindow Man, a character of incredible historical and cultural importance. On 2nd August to commemorate the date of the find, a dawn walk on the bog is planned to celebrate his significance. This is just one awareness-raising event in which local people are invited to take part.
Why not join us at dawn on 2nd August for a guided walk on Lindow Moss?
Numbers are limited so to avoid disappointment please register for the walk here.
Have a look at our Lindow Moss webpages for more information about our campaign to restore the moss.