NEW sights and experiences are available in Lymm, following completion of an ambitious project involving borough and parish councils and local residents and groups.
The Lymm’s Life Project has taken a lot of hard work over several years – but it is now finished and has already helped retain Green Flag status for Lymm Dam for a second year.
Members of the Lymm Environment and Heritage Group (LEHG) along with staff from the borough’s environment and regeneration directorate worked together on the innovative project, which includes the Lymm Heritage Trail, woodland management, excavation of the iron slitting mill in Slitten Gorge and an upgrade of Lymm Dam’s footpath network together with an “Easy Access Trail” and newly constructed visitor car park.
The project was funded by contributions from the borough and parish councils, the Heritage Lottery Fund, Waste Recycling Environmental, Local Heritage Initiative and the Countryside Agency.
Among the project’s features are:
Lymm Heritage Trail: a 3.5 mile self-guided trail created by the borough’s ranger service, Lymm Parish council and Lymm and district Local History Society, featuring a series of information panels.
Easy Access Trail: built in partnership with Groundwork Mersey Valley, offers a circular route around Lymm Dam on surfaced paths.
Slitting Mill Excavation: carried out by Oxford Archaeology North (OAN) who identified the mill as probably the best surviving example in the country and now open to the public
Car park: An upgrade an extension of the visitor car park on Crouchley Lane.
In addition to these works, LEHG and the council have been working in partnership with Bay Malton Angling Club on an angling development plan for Lymm Dam. 
Angling facilities are being upgraded in keeping with the site’s character, while the plan also considers habitat preservation and better access to the water’s edge for all site users.
Coun Alan Litton, (right) the borough council’s executive member for environment and transport, said: “This project represents a great example of team working. None of this would have happened without the commitment and hard work of many people including local residents, the LEGH, ward members, the council’s environment services as well as all our partners.
“Now that we have also achieved and retained Green Flag status, it gives us a bench mark to aim for and will help ensure the improvements of the last few years are sustained in future years.”
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