Biodiversity Mapping along the Trent Valley

Below are 26 maps of the Trent Valley Floodplain in Draft.

Please print off the ones relevant to your area, write on your comments as requested and post them back to ESL in Lincoln. They do not have the necessary OS copyright statements on yet, so are available for OnTrent internal consultation purposes only. Please do not distribute outside of your organisation.

If you have any queries please get in touch with Nick Tribe at Natural England or Julie  Wozniczka at OnTrent. With thanks.

Please note; all files are .jpg, and are between 800KB and 1500KB in size.

Map Index and Key (includes map of entire valley)

Map 1     Map 2    Map 3     Map 4

Map 5     Map 6    Map 7     Map 8

Map 9      Map 10   Map 11   Map 12

Map 13   Map 14   Map 15   Map 16

Map 17   Map 18   Map 19   Map 20

Map21    Map 22   Map 23    Map 24 

Map 25   Map 26

Site Based Projects

There are a large range of projects already underway along the River Trent. They vary greatly in type from community, landowner and public open space projects to mineral restoration, flood defence schemes and area wide initiatives. They all have one thing in common, they are all conected in some way to enhancing the Trent Valley.

Below are details of a few of a few projects. The attached list provides the basic information about many more of the projects in the Valley that are contributing to the aims of OnTrent. 

List of projects  June 2006 (27KB)

Nottingham, Trent River Park.

A partnership focussed on delivering the aims of OnTrent in Nottingham between Attenboruogh and Gunthorpe. In the spirit of OnTrent, the partners work together to explore ways achieving environmental, social and physical enhancements in the city through a range of different means, ie regeneration, planning, leisure, recreation and flood risk management projects. The river acts as a catalyst to achieve high quality improvments. For more information about the Trent River Park please click here.

Project Start Date January 2005. Completion Date: Ongoing.

Hinterland, Nottingham

Art projects along the Trent, with new site specific installations, photography commissions, events and activities in August, September and October 2007.

For more information please visit www.hinterlandprojects.co.uk

Kneeton near Newark

Fishery and river enhancments 
OnTrent and the Environment Agency have been working with a farmer at Kneeton to link a former wetland to the River Trent. The old site had silted up so much it was dry almost all of the year, and only linked to the river during times of floods. The project excavated the former wetland and linked it to the river. The new wetland is larger than before, with shallow margins to increase the habitat diversity. It also includes shallow water near to the mouth with the Trent to provide a nursery area for small and young fish. This shallow wetland habitat linked directly to the river is very scarce along many stretches of the Trent.

Project funded by the Environment Agency fisheries department and the OnTrent SPARC project.

Project Started;October 2006. Project Completed April 2007.