A PROJECT to improve pathways and access across Kinver Edge is to be launched to mark 100 years since the land was donated to the National Trust.

At a centenary launch event on Thursday (October 6), the Kinver Edge Committee and local National Trust management will welcome representatives from different community groups in Kinver to explain more about the planned work.

The trust also hope the event, which starts at 7pm at Kinver Church Hall, Vicarage Drive, will aid its fundraising for the extensive improvements, which has already seen money raised for multi-access gates and additional resting spots.

Kinver Edge was gifted to the trust in 1917 by the Lee family who wanted the land to be enjoyed as a place of leisure and recreation by people from the Staffordshire and Black Country.

Continuing in the spirit of conservation and access, the National Trust also hope to join up the many special features of the Edge – including the multiple rock houses, an Iron Age hill fort, and wildlife-rich heathland – with an improved route circling the site.