May 1st 2012 : Water has been released on to the Water meadow at the Wicksteed Park Nature Reserve for the first time in at least 100 years.

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Work has now started to restore the Scheduled Ancient Monument (SAM) at Castle Field in Barton Seagrave.

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The water channels have now been fully restored at the Water Meadow in Wicksteed Park Nature Reserve.

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The Natural-ISE Community group has received £600 worth of tools to help when they are working on environmental projects within the ISE Valley Park and surrounding areas.

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Over 40 volunteers from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints helped with clearing work at the water meadows.

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Over 25 staff from the Environment Agency and Anglian Water spent their environmental leave day at the Water Meadow in Wicksteed Park Nature Reserve helping with the restoration.

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The Natural-Ise group, who look after the newly created Ise Valley Parklands in Kettering, are to start work on planting large amounts of native wildflower plants along the River Ise.

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The last in the series of Community Restoration events for 2011 took place on Tuesday 13th September.

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The Revital-ISE project has funded two dipping platforms at Newton Field Centre. The aims of these new platforms are to improve the experience and safety for the numerous schools visiting the centre and help protect the river.

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WICKSTEED PARK WATER MEADOW RESTORATION

Launch of the Awards for All community events at the Wicksteed watermeadows, Wicksteed Park, Kettering. More info and booking >>>

PRESS RELEASE : Guided walk on the history and ecology of the meadows and surrounding area, Saturday 12th March at 2.30pm.

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TREE PLANTING EVENT

PRESS RELEASE : On Saturday 12th February 2011 volunteers got involved in tree planting along the River Ise. To be continued 19th February.

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WICKSTEED PARK WATER MEADOW RESTORATION

Launch of the Awards for All community events at the Wicksteed watermeadows, Wicksteed Park, Kettering. More info and booking >>>

PRESS RELEASE : Nationally important habitat restoration work to begin at Wicksteed Park water meadows, Kettering; 15th January, Turf Cutting.

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WILDFLOWERS AND SCHOOLS

PRESS RELEASE : A project to encourage schools to start growing wildflowers from seed. Once grown these plants will be used in the school wildlife areas, or planted into local Pocket Parks or other community wildlife areas.

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WORKING TOGETHER TO BRING WETLAND BACK TO LIFE

PRESS RELEASE : A Northamptonshire wetland is to be recreated as part of an exciting project to Revital-ISE the River Ise and its surroundings. The works will include re-engineering a meandering part of the river through Cooks Spinney, a small woodland.

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MAJOR HABITAT RESTORATION WORK TO BEGIN AT TAILBY MEADOWS, DESBOROUGH

PRESS RELEASE : Major work to help the restoration of the riverside meadows is planned to start in the next few weeks at The Wildlife Trust in Northamptonshire's Nature Reserve, Tailby Meadows.

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REVITAL-ISE ORGANISES FREE TRAINING EVENT FOR COMMUNITY GROUPS

The Revital-ISE project has held its first community training event at Newton Field Centre. The aim of this event was to improve community group involvement in management of wildlife sites in both the Nene and Ise Valleys.

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REVITAL-ISE PARTNER WORKSHOPS

The Revital-ISE project which aims to revive the River Ise and its surrounding environment and increase community involvement has held its first partner workshop event at Wicksteed Park. The aim of this meeting was to discuss the type of project needed to revive the Ise Valley. Organisations such as: Natural England, English Heritage, The Wildlife Trust, Kettering Borough Council, Borough Council of Wellingborough, Environment Agency and River Nene Regional Park were some of the 14 involved in the discussions.

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REVITAL-ISE, NEW PROJECT LAUNCHED

Revital-ISE is a new partnership project that has been launched to improve biodiversity, access, recreation and leisure and and encourage the local communities to get involved in the area'.

This project will endeavour to implement improvements along the length of the Ise valley with the aims of enhancing the biodiversity, providing increased access, increasing leisure and recreational activities, improving the landscape value and restoring the natural floodplain where possible.

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BOUGHTON HOUSE LANDSCAPE & GARDENS 2009

Boughton Keeper's Secret- Award Winning Ale Select here to view the label (pdf 1.3Mb) >>>

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Select here to download the Circular Walks around Desborough leaflet (pdf 1.2Mb) >>>

Select here to download the Millenium Green leaflet (pdf 962Kb) >>>

Select here to download the Tailby Meadow leaflet (pdf 1.5Mb) >>>

REVITAL-ISE LEAFLET UPDATE 2010

Select here to download the Revital-ISE Leaflet update 2010, providing an overview of the projects scope and a map of its area (pdf 1.8Mb) >>>

CONSERVATION WALKS ALONG THE RIVER ISE

These walks have been provided under the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs' farm conservation schemes as managed by Natural England, which help farmers and land managers protect and improve the countryside, its wildlife and history. It is permissive access and no new rights of way are being created. Existing rights of way are not affected.

Please follow the Countryside Code and observe any other requirements shown above. Do not disturb wildlife, livestock or other visitors and in particular keep dogs
under control. This is working farmland so please take care; people using this site do so at their own risk. Access ends on 30th September 2016.