Introduction
Since the early 1990s, it has been recognised that North Stoneham Park
should be afforded greater merit as part of Hampshire's heritage - and efforts
made to turn areas of the surviving parkland into a viable historical and natural landscape.
The south portion (61 acres) of the Avenue Park area of North Stoneham
Park was placed in public ownership in 1996, and a well-received landscape
restoration project took place to the whole of Avenue Park - including
Eastleigh Borough Council's northern portion - from 2000. Today, the wider parkland
comprises much of the statutory Southampton-Eastleigh 'strategic gap'. But
threats and obstacles to the Park's conservation remain.
In 2009, a new project is underway that seeks to further the earlier work to Avenue
Park in 2000-1. The joint project between Eastleigh Borough Council and the Willis
Fleming Historical Trust focuses on the restoration of the derelict War
Shrine, and will use this symbolic monument as a key to unlocking the
history of the landscape. In particular we are seeking to increase awareness
of the historical and natural environment.
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