The River Don, Landscape and History – a Sense of Place Through Time

Professor Ian D. Rotherham

Saturday 6 June, 12pm

This richly illustrated talk will take us down the arterial river of South Yorkshire from its upland western origins to the lowlands of the once-great South Yorkshire Fen. This watercourse put the ‘Don’ in Doncaster and has been central to the region’s people, communities, ecology, and history. The lifeblood of regional economies, the river has been used and abused over many centuries but today is bringing new life to the regeneration of South Yorkshire. Now self-rewilded, the River Don is once more symbolic of the region’s resilience and rejuvenation. We will look at heritage from the past and short extracts of the ongoing ‘visualisation’ model (produced by the Landscape Heritage Research Foundation and South Yorkshire Biodiversity Research Group for the DCRT) and which brings the landscape changes to life today.

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