All systems go!

Hello all,

The Building Stones team at the Herefordshire & Worcestershire Earth Heritage Trust is now at full complement and, having got the go ahead from the generous folks at the Heritage Lottery Fund, we are getting stuck into the project ahead of us.

A Thousand Years of Building with Stone  is a three-and-a-half year project looking at the everything from castles and bridges to parish churches, barns and cottages. We are aiming to trace the sources of the stone for these buildings and hopeful to rediscover some lost quarries, to engage the public with their local stone-built heritage and the geology that underpins the distinct regional character of towns and villages both in terms of landscape and built environment.

Elliot and Beth have been hard at work scouring the wilds of Herefordshire & Worcestershire for beautiful and varied stone buildings. We have just taken delivery of our first…