The historic environment of the Mendip Hills AONB 4 year research project was initiated by The Mendip Hills AONB Unit, English Heritage and the Historic Environment Service of Somerset County Council.

This project was designed to stimulate and enhance research into the historic environment of the Mendip Hills AONB, and to investigate record, understand and communicate the richness of a distinctive landscape and its buildings and monuments. This research and understanding will be used to inform management and conservation strategies, and improve visitor information and awareness.

Some research reports from the project are already available on the EH web site and the Mendip Hills AONB publication in the EH AONB series will be available later in 2011. Useful references are contained in the Project Brief that you can read here.

Living Landscape projects – both Somerset Wildlife Trust and Avon Wildlife Trust have landscape scale projects to rebuild biodiversity.

SWT Mendip hills project aims:
to protect existing good quality habitat
to restore or recreate other areas of land to a better quality for wildlife
to reconnect isolated areas of valuable wildflower meadows, limestone grasslands, heaths and woodlands across Mendip
Read more here.

AWT project goal is to:
protect, restore and reconnect valuable wildflower meadows and limestone grasslands across Avon.
Read more here.