Summer excavation opportunities with CHAP
Date: 26th June 2024
Join the Chilterns Heritage and Archaeology Partnership (CHAP) for a community excavation near Sarratt this summer.
Tag Archive: heritage
Chilterns Chairs Festival: celebrate local heritage this July
Date: 06th June 2024
Celebrate the stories, the chairs and the surroundings which make up our Chilterns history.
The history of Chilterns chalk figures
Date: 07th March 2024
Learn about the history behind some of the chalk figures cut into hills across the Chilterns.
‘Major victory’ for Beacons of the Past
Date: 09th November 2023
The hillfort at Cholesbury Camp has been removed from Historic England’s Heritage at Risk register after successful restoration and maintenance work.
Introducing CHAP – an exciting new Heritage and Archaeology Partnership for the Chilterns
Date: 27th July 2023
With the Festival of British Archaeology upon us, there really is no better to time to launch our exciting new Heritage and Archaeology initiative; CHAP. You may have heard of the highly successful Heritage Lottery-Funded Beacons of the Past project which ran from 2018 until late 2022. One of the legacies of the project...
Gentle Giants, a blog by Mary Tebje for National Mills Weekend
Date: 12th May 2023
Landscape plays a huge role in determining the form and function of buildings, not least windmills and watermills. Having just spent the weekend in a 18th century watermill, it’s timely that National Mills Weekend is upon us. They are such evocative spaces with their exposed beams, tight corners, graffiti and scruff marks from their past...