It covers an area of 147km2 focusing on the river corridor from the coast upstream of Piercebridge, linking with the Heart of Teesdale Landscape Partnership. The five-year programme is funded through the Heritage Lottery Fund and is being delivered until October 2019.
In fact, some were so good I wondered why everyone was not doing the same thing. The answer, I suspect, is because ideas often struggle to find a path out of their locality and for all the talk of the world being smaller, there are still barriers of language and culture that stand in the way of innovation and ingenuity crossing borders.