Flax Forward is a community-led project celebrating Bridport’s flax-growing heritage and exploring the potential for a sustainable future.

The project will gather and connect knowledge from collections, archives, and community sources, uncovering unrecorded infrastructure, information, memories, and oral histories. By mapping local flax cultivation and processing, the project will connect people, place, and heritage, and use this shared knowledge to explore new opportunities for re-establishing flax as a sustainable material.

A summary of the project is available here:
Flax Forward: The story of a plant, a town and a landscape.