Fownhope’s Dark Skies

From February to May this year, many residents across South Herefordshire were involved in Herefordshire CPRE’s Dark Skies Project, taking Sky Quality Meter readings at night to identify areas of light pollution in their communities.

A few volunteers from the Parish Council’s Environment Group did a survey in April, and recorded the results on a map… each telescope shows where a reading was taken. Outside of the village centre, the results were generally good, showing that we benefit from living in an area that has naturally dark skies. Around the more densely populated areas and where there are street lights the results were, unsurprisingly, rather poor.