One hundred wildflower meadows are to be created or enhanced at historic sites across England, including Stonehenge and Westminster’s Jewel Tower in celebration of the King’s coronation.
English Heritage said the project would leave a natural legacy by working to restore the country’s lost flower-rich glasslands, in tribute to Charles’s love of the natural world. Some 97 per cent of the UK’s meadows have disappeared since the 1930s, with many remaining fragments left unprotected.
Seventy-five of the meadows will be brand new and 25 are existing ones which will be developed. English Heritage’s chosen locations include 43 castles and forts, 22 abbeys and priories and 10 historic houses – Whitby Abbey in Yorkshire, Queen Victoria’s former home Osborne on the Isle of Wight and Tintagel Castle in Cornwall are among them.
