An interactive audio tour that guides you through breath-taking scenery in the Clwydian Range Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty has been highlighted as best practice in a national newspaper.
The Telegraph has named its top ten audio trails, with the Moel Famau audio guided walk appearing in seventh place.
Visitors to Moel Famau can enjoy their own personal guided walk to help them explore the area’s fascinating past through the Heather and Hillforts Project.
Using the latest technology, visitors are able to access the audio tour via their mobile telephones or by downloading the free mp3 version from the internet.
Erin Robinson, Heather and Hillforts Interpretation Officer explained: “The trail gives visitors the opportunity to walk through Moel Famau Country Park up to the Jubilee Tower with a number of experts to hand. The tour includes accounts from archaeologists and nature experts to name but a few and gives visitors the unique chance to be shown around this fascinating area by the people who live in it, work in it and love it.
“We are delighted to have been highlighted in the Telegraph’s top ten. It really shows that we can use the latest technology to bring the past right into the present.”
The trail also includes information about the Bronze Age burial mounds, Iron Age hillforts, accounts of how the landscape has been formed and how it has been used and managed by man over thousands of years and also how the area is used today, for recreation, agriculture and conservation.
The interactive heritage trail is a new approach to interpretation of the area that people can access whilst in the countryside through their mobile phones. The audio tour enables the provision of site specific information, without having a visual impact on the setting.
The phone number used for the trail is a local rate number, 01352 230123 and calls can be included in visitor’s free minutes. The tour will also be available in MP3 and written format on the Heather and Hillforts website www.heatherandhillforts.co.uk, which will also include reconstruction drawings, aerial photographs and videos of the landscape in use, in the coming months.
The three year Heather and Hillforts Project is developing a £2.3 million initiative for upland conservation work and has received a grant of £1.5 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund. For more information please visit heatherandhillforts.co.uk.
You can now follow the Heather and Hillforts project on twitter! Visit www.twitter.com/HeatherHillfort or join the Facebook group for more updates from the project.
