Heritage definitely counts, and unless the needs of our rural heritage in particular is addressed, its long term survival is under threat. That’s the message from English Heritage in its Heritage Counts 2005 report, released last week.
23 Nov 2005
Judi Jagger
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Heritage definitely counts, and unless the needs of our rural heritage in particular is addressed, its long term survival is under threat. That’s the message from English Heritage in its Heritage Counts 2005 report, released last week.
The huge contribution rural heritage makes to national life is under-acknowledged, and English Heritage and other heritage bodies are calling on the Government and all those whose work impacts on England’s countryside to recognise and to help alleviate the pressures on the sector.
Judi Jagger is a freelance writer who lives on 15 acres of rural isolation overlooking an island. She loves how the Internet can bring the world to her. When she does venture out, it is to the theatre and cinema and to visit galleries and bookshops. In a previous life she has been a teacher, a librarian, a cleaner (very, very briefly) and a hospital admissions clerk. The nicest thing anyone has told her was that she was “educated, not domesticated”. It was meant disparagingly. She will get round to putting it on a T-shirt one day.
