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Malham Tarn Field Centre, situated near Malham Tarn in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, North Yorkshire, England. Follow this blog to keep up to date with current goings on at the Tarn.
The centre is run by the Field Studies Council and is popular with both geography and biology students, as well as the wider public. Opened in 1947, the Centre celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2007.Within walking distance of the Centre are famous limestone features including Malham Cove, Gordale Scar and spectacular karst landscapes. The route of the Pennine Way footpath runs very close to the buildings. Nearby habitats include limestone pavement, grazed and ungrazed grassland, woodland and species-rich fen, acid peat pools and stony hill streams. Malham Tarn itself is one of only eight upland alkaline lakes in Europe.

For more information please go to
http://www.field-studies-council.org/malhamtarn/index.aspx




Thursday, 16 December 2010

Filming in and around the centre

2010 has seen the area in and around the Field Centre feature in  international films and UK TV alike. In January BBC’s Countryfile came to Malham Tarn to talk to the National Trust about White Claw Crayfish and Cave spiders. A colony of Cave spiders made their home in the Orchid House of the centre around a decade ago. Due to renovation works currently under way to turn it into a resource for walkers and school groups, the spiders needed to be relocated. More than 150 spiders were re-homed in a cave less than a quarter of a mile away.

Secondly Malham Cove and Malham Moor were filmed for the latest instalment of J.K Rowling’s Harry Potter films, ‘The Deathly Hallows-Part 1’ The Cove was featured when Harry and Hermione pitched their tent on top of the limestone pavement, whilst the moor was the location for Xenophilius Lovegood’s house. Members of FSC staff saw filming at the Cove last winter.

In October the film crew from a new Channel 4 programme ‘The Secret Supper Club used the kitchen and the National Trust boathouses. Members of staff were invited to join Olly Smith as guests to taste food they had prepared. This is due to be aired on a Sunday in January.

                          Photo Copyright Warner Brothers

                                           Photo Copyright Warner Brothers
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