This is a new Lead Ranger role set in the northern half of the National Trusts Wiltshire Landscape portfolio at an exciting time as we take on management of the countryside sites around Lacock.
This role will be based at West Kennett Farm SN81QF.
What it's like to work here
At the centre of the National Trusts North Wiltshire property group is Avebury, set in the northern half of the Stonehenge and Avebury WHS, with its distinctive and internationally important archaeology and monuments. Nearby are Windmill Hill – a neolithic causeway enclosure, Lockeridge Dene & Piggledene with natural sarsen boulder streams and further to the north-east is The Coombes at Hinton Parva, a distinctive steep sided chalk valley with a rich botanical diversity.
Heading west you will find Calstone and Cherhill, a further 200ha of species rich chalk grassland and an Iron Age hillfort, with many important and rare species such as the Burnt Tip orchid and Wart biter cricket and further afield, Sutton Lane Meadows, with thousands of Green Winged orchids. New to the portfolio are the countryside sites around Lacock providing new and fantastic habitat opportunities including the creation of new woodlands & hedges and management of lowland meadows.
You will play a pivotal role in maintaining and developing these special and iconic places to ensure that both ancient and new landscapes and habitats u...