What is Shap Outdoor Festival? Nestled between the Lake District and Yorkshire Dales National Parks, just 5 miles from us here at Haweswater, the village of Shap lies in the picturesque Lowther Valley. Perhaps most famous for its award-winning chip shop, it is now keen to also become known for its landscape and wildlife, by […]
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We’re celebrating World Book Day today as our Site Manager Lee has recently taken delivery of the first paperback copy of his award-winning book, Wild Fell: Fighting for nature on a Lake District hill farm. And the great news is that you will soon be able to get a copy when it lands in bookshops
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A small herd of four new Fell ponies have joined our team here at Haweswater, as part of our conservation grazing and regenerative farming operation here in the Eastern Lake District. The four ponies named Gus, Tommy, Dan and Stanley have been purchased from nearby, well-known Cumbrian fell pony breeders – Drybarrows Fell Ponies and
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We’re incredibly proud to be part of an ambitious programme to restore and improve rivers in the Lake District, that has just beaten immense competition from across Europe to win the prestigious European Riverprize. The work headed up by the Environment Agency and Natural England has involved several partners around the county including us here
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We’re delighted that our partnership project to restore habitats in Swindale Valley here at Haweswater has won the 2022 UK River Prize Project-scale Award. The Swindale Valley Restoration Project involved a partnership between us at the RSPB, landowner United Utilities, the Environment Agency and Natural England. We’ve been working together to restore watercourses, bogs, meadows
Swindale Valley has won a 2022 UK River Prize award! Read More »
Tucked away at the eastern edge of the Lake District National Park, Haweswater Reservoir sits encircled by looming fells. The glacially-carved landscape is studded with mossy woodlands, rocky crags, bogs, tarns and rushing streams. The whole area is owned by water company United Utilities, and the reservoir supplies 2 million of their customers with their
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Could wild beavers soon return to England’s waters? A landmark consultation has been launched to set the course for the future of beavers in England. Read on to find out out how you can contribute.
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Join RSPB Haweswater’s first residential volunteer of 2021, Megan Jones, for an insight into her first week on the reserve.
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In the final part of our series about species missing from the Lake District, Site Manager Lee Schofield takes on the wolf. A ruined stone building known as Low Loup perches on a fellside shoulder of Mardale Common, high above Haweswater reservoir. It lacks only a roof, and sheep use it to shelter from the
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Part 8 of our series about the Lake District’s missing wildlife, written by Haweswater Site Manager Lee Schofield, strikes a cheerier tone and focuses on three avian conservation success stories. Back in the summer I took a walk with my kids to the summit of Dodd. Soaking up the views over Bassenthwaite, we spotted a
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