The Dartington Hall Trust has secured new funding of almost £750,000 to repair and conserve a historically significant area of the 800-acre estate – a medieval Deer Park and its 18th century Grade II listed stone wall.
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Category: Latest news and blogs
Conservation diary: Keeping track of nesting birds at Dartington
Each year Mike and the volunteers carry out a nest box survey across the Dartington estate for the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) - a scheme that has been going for over 25 years.
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Step back 4.6 billion years with the Deep Time Walk App
The new Deep Time Walk App is a walking audio history of the Living Earth - giving users a detailed and dramatised experience of the planet’s 4.6 billion year big history as they are guided on a 4.6 kilometre walk across time.
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Conservation diary: Grasshoppers and other spring sightings
April is the first month where you might be able to see or hear a Meadow Grasshopper at Dartington, with sightings possible until the late autumn.
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Obituary: Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, who had a long association with Dartington International Summer School, died at his home in Orkney on 14 March 2016, aged 81.
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William Elmhirst dies aged 87
We are very sad to report that William Elmhirst, the youngest of Leonard and Dorothy Elmhirst's two children, passed away on 29 February while travelling overseas.
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