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Our media centre provides the latest National Trust news, statements and supporting content for journalists.

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Oxburgh Hall parkland restoration

Going back to its roots – historic parkland to be restored to 19th Century heyday 

The National Trust is piecing back together a 19th century landscape using a Victorian survey map and aerial photographs taken by the Royal Air Force after World War II.

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Detail of the lost red squirrel recreated in the border of the tapestry

National Trust recreates 17th-century ‘secret’ squirrel on rare Flemish tapestry 

There’s a new addition to one of the National Trust’s rarest 17th-century tapestries, now back at Dyrham Park near Bath after specialist cleaning and repairs.

Rivers in the Ullswater Valley have been artificially straightened over centuries

National Trust puts the curves back into Lake District river to help flood-hit valley 

The National Trust is embarking on one of its most ambitious river restoration projects to help flood-hit communities in the Ullswater valley and restore dwindling populations of wildlife.

Cotehele intertidal project

New wetlands better for wildlife and people as new engineering turns the clock back to pre-Victorian times 

The National Trust is turning back the clock almost 200 years to tackle habitat and nature loss by handing low grade farmland back to a Cornish river.

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