To celebrate the coronation of King Charles III, English Heritage will create a meadow at Kenilworth Castle, the charity announced today (31 March).

The town's main tourist attraction is one of a hundred castles and abbeys, prehistoric stone circles and palaces set to receive a meadow.

The charity will create a natural legacy at its historic sites – establishing flower-rich grasslands right across England, restoring those that have been lost, and enhancing those that already exist.

English Heritage said it has an abundance of sites where – with the right management – meadows can be created and flourish. 

Kate Mavor, English Heritage's chief executive, said: "The King's coronation is a significant moment in history and we wanted to mark it in a meaningful way, in a way that combines two of his majesty's passions – nature and heritage.

"We're creating more natural spaces at the heart of our historic properties, ensuring that wildflowers and wildlife can flourish there once again, and helping our visitors to step back into history and experience something with which the sites' historic occupants would have been familiar.

The meadows will take shape over the next 10 years (image via English Heritage)

"In a decade's time, our coronation pledge will be an inspiring legacy of established, restored and new meadows at 100 of our historic sites – big and small – right across England.

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"We hope that it will encourage local communities to get involved and help transform their local heritage sites into flower-rich meadows, which, in turn, will improve the quality and diversity of other grassland in the local area."

English Heritage is partnering with Plantlife – Europe's largest charity dedicated to saving wild plants and fungi – on the initiative. 

The charity will also engage with local communities around each of the meadow sites, and it is yet to release and precise details for the meadow in Kenilworth.

Kenilworth Castle is also set to feature heavily in the town's coronation celebrations, with a "plethora" of events planned there.