Supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, North York Moors National Park Authority, David Ross Foundation and other partners The landscape area is 18,252 hectares. The current delivery period runs from 2016 to 2021. This Exploited Land of Iron will protect and conserve some of the most iconic monuments from the ironstone industry and associated railways in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and work with land managers to nurture the natural environment that has reclaimed these spaces. It will document and tell the stories of what life was like for these communities when the landscape looked very different to how it does today.
