Collaborations Visit to Wallington Estate
The Centre for Landscape arranged a visit to the Wallington Estate, Northumberland, as part of research colllaboration development between the National Trust 'Wilder Wallington' Project and Newcastle University
9 November 2023
Collaborations Visit to Wallington Estate
Wallington Landscape Transformations Visit: Newcastle University, National Trust ‘Wilder Wallington’ Collaborations
On Thursday 9th November a group of researchers from Newcastle University took part in a visit to the Wallington Estate, arranged by the Centre for Landscape with the support of Strategic Cultural Partnerships at Newcastle, in connection with the University’s Memorandum of Understanding with the National Trust. This follows research collaboration development work conducted by the Centre's Research Associate Maria Duggan across the summer of 2023, supported by Strategic Cultural Partnerships, and follows a preliminary collaboration meeting at the estate in April 2023.
This visit was an opportunity for researchers from Schools right across the University to see areas of the estate that are undergoing landscape transformation as part of the nature restoration, biodiversity and climate change mitigation goals of the National Trust’s ‘Wilder Wallington’ Project. This project is a national benchmark project for the National Trust’s wider aims to meet future challenges. The visit was led by the National Trust’s Wilder Wallington Project Manager Elaine More and Wallington Countryside Manager Paul Hewitt, and was attended by many of the Trust’s specialist consultants. The day finished with a discussion session focusing on ideas for long term multi-disciplinary research collaborations. As part of the day the group visited areas changing from arable land to woodland, areas of re-wetting, and also visited the new beaver enclosure and saw some of the changes already made to the landscape by these recent arrivals.