What is ‘Living Heritage’?
Living Heritage, or Intangible Cultural Heritage, is about the traditions, skills and knowledge that communities share and pass on. Unlike monuments and buildings, it is about cultural communities, the core of our very cultural identity.
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Rural Pursuits include :
- farming, land management practices, Young Farmers, ploughing matches, hedge-laying vintage tractor runs, hurdle making, dry stone walling, heavy horses, sheep dog trials, rare breeds…
- fishing, river and fish stock management, fishing competitions, eel traps, cockling, coracles, fly-tying, rod and net making, inshore fisheries for lobsters and crabs….
- boating, boat-building, sailing, canoeing, rowing matches, hang-gliding, gliding and air strips, ballooning, kite flying, radio controlled planes and drones…
- shooting events, stalking and deer management, game management, moorland management, pest control, gundog trials, clays and sim days, gundog breeding, muzzle-loaders, shooting attire and accessories…
- hunting with hounds, sight hounds, terriers, trail hound racing, ferrets and raptors. It includes Hunt clothes, buttons, songs, horn calls, dog breeding, social events, songs, puppy walking and Hound Shows, Pony Clubs, Point-to-points, Hunt Country maps, Hunter Trials, Boxing Day Meets, farrier, saddler and groom apprentice schemes, Eventing, Horse Shows and Gymkhanas, and all forms of horse training, breeding and racing, carriage driving, communal Riding the Bounds and horse fairs…
- cottage gardens, tree nurseries and planting, allotments and Capability Brown landscaping. Vegetable gardening, home brewing, dyeing and spinning, orchards and rare breed fruits and poultry, village fetes, maypoles, ducking for apples, skittles and shove ha’penny, pub songs and dart matches, Marts, Country Shows and Game Fairs. ..
- camping, bushcraft, rock-climbing, fell running, archery, foraging, survival courses and wild swimming, riding and rights of way.
In short, anything that makes up our country way of life…. Read on!
