GRANTS are being offered for hedgerow planting and drystone walling to try and restore traditional field boundaries.

The North York Moors National Park is offering grants of up to £2,000 to land managers within its boundaries to help improve, protect and restore the traditional features, which include drystone wall restoration, hedge laying, coppicing and “gapping up”.

Roy McGhie, conservation projects assistant at the North York Moors National Park Authority said: “The Traditional Boundary Scheme offers an excellent way for land managers to restore field boundaries, which deliver multiple benefits for everyone involved.

“The walls and hedges of the national park act as stock-proof boundaries, reduce erosion, provide shelter for animals, increase habitat connectivity as well as providing the aesthetic landscape character that makes our national park so distinctive.”

Priority is given to boundaries which are most visible from a public right of way or of particular historical or environmental interest.

For more information visit; northyorkmoors.org.uk/tbs, email; tbs@northyorkmoors.org.uk or call 01439-772700.

The deadline for the current round of applications is March 31, but it is anticipated there will be a further round of applications later in the year.