PDF available to download below
(Note: due to the size of the full handbook (6MB) you may prefer to download the sections individually, separate pdfs are available below)
Please ensure the handbook is read in conjunction with the errata sheet listed below.
The third edition Environmental Stewardship Handbooks for Entry Level Stewardship (ELS), Organic Entry Level Stewardship (OELS) and Higher Level Stewardship (HLS) include new and revised options for farmers and land managers and details of the new Uplands strand of ELS and OELS.
The new handbooks become operational, as the legal basis for ES agreements, from 1 February 2010. Printed copies are available from your local ISS office.
Ordering printed copies of the ELS Handbook (NE226) and HLS Handbook (NE227)
Printed copies of the ELS and HLS Handbooks are only available from your local Natural England ISS office – the telephone numbers for each local office are given below.
Ordering printed copies of the Organic ELS Handbook (NE228)
The Organic ELS Handbooks [NE228] are only available from the ISS Crewe office. You should ring 0300 060 1113.
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East of England
Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Suffolk
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0300 060 1114
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East Midlands
Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Rutland
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0300 060 1111
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North East
Durham, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, Former county of Cleveland
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0300 060 1117
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North West
Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Merseyside
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0300 060 1113
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South East
Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, West Sussex, Greater London
Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Surrey, Oxfordshire
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0300 060 1112
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South West
Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire,
Former county of Avon
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0300 060 1118
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West Midlands
Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, West Midlands, Worcestershire
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0300 060 1115
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Yorkshire and the Humber
East Riding of Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, North Lincolnshire
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0300 060 1116
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