Reports & Resources Archive
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Category
- Balmaclellan 2
- Can You Dig It? 9
- Community Action Plan (CAP) 19
- Dumfries and Galloway Council 1
- Dumfries and Galloway wide 1
- Galloway Glens Landscape Partnership (GGLP) 34
- Glenkens Community & Arts Trust (GCAT) 2
- Landscape Conservation Action Plan (LCAP) 3
- Loch Ken Trust (LKT) 1
- National Trust For Scotland 1
- New Galloway 1
- Other projects 1
- Parton Kirk 1
- Studies Commissioned by GGLP 13
Topic
- Biosphere 2
- CAP Addendum 1
- CAP Theme 1 3
- CAP Theme 2 2
- CAP Theme 3 11
- CAP Theme 4 3
- Scottish languages 2
- access 1
- archaeology 5
- assets 2
- biodiversity 1
- business 2
- carbon neutral 3
- children 4
- communication 2
- connectivity 3
- covenanters 1
- covid 1
- education 4
- engagement 5
- farming 1
- feasibility studies 1
- fish 4
- flooding 1
- food 1
- funders 1
- health 1
- heritage 11
- housing 4
- invasive species 2
- land use 6
- landscape 4
- overview 2
- resilience 1
- skills & training 4
- tourism 2
- transport 1
- update 1
- workshops 2
Casting a replica of the Balmaclellan Mirror
Galloway Glens supported a Glenkens Men’s Shed project to make a replica of the famous Balmaclellan Mirror. The event on the 22nd August 2021, took place in the Smiddy car park in Balmaclellan and the casting was carried out by the Mobile Foundry.
Building Biographies: a 2023 volunteer research project into the country houses of Galloway
The Building Biographies project recruited volunteers to undertake research into some of the large country houses within Galloway.
Galloway Glens Booklets
Six booklets created during the Galloway Glens Scheme, supporting some of the different projects and initiatives undertaken.
Sculpture of Old Mortality in Balmaclellan
A conservation report on the restoration of the Old Mortality sculpture in Balmaclellan.
Searching for Sarah
In early 2022, Grave Encounters - a volunteer research project run by the Can You Dig It community archaeology group, part of the Galloway Glens Landscape Partnership - revealed the fascinating histories behind the names on some of the gravestones in Kells kirkyard.
Voices from the Glens
A report on the work of Dr John Burns who has been investigating the changing language, voices and words of Galloway since 2019.
Grave Encounters at Kells
Grave Encounters: A 2022 volunteer research project into the people memorialised at Kells, New Galloway.
The Lost Wells of Galloway (an online project)
In the days before indoor plumbing, wells were obviously essential to the everyday needs of the people, but many held importance which surpassed merely keeping hydrated.
MyGalloway CANMORE Sites
MyGalloway was an exciting project to improve our national historical records and you didn’t even have to leave the house!
Are We There Yet?
Milestones have been around since Roman times, but their heyday really began in the 1700s. They were designed not only to inform travellers of directions and distances, but to help coaches keep to schedule. At the height of their era, there were 20,000 miles of roads with milestones across Britain.