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Welcome to the Waresley and Gransden
Woods website
This website is dedicated to providing
information on all topics relating to the Waresley and Gransden Woods reserves of
The Wildlife
Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.
For directions to visit the reserve follow this link.
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The New Conservation Season
has Begun
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12/09/2021 - today we held our first conservation work party of the
2021-22 season. We started by dividing our time between
cutting back the hedges in the car park and preparing a coppice
section in the wood's "box junction". Work parties
run once a fortnight on Sunday morning, contact me if you wish to
join us or find out more.
Stay safe and please
respect the Trust's wishes that visitors keep to the paths,
especially now that Autumn approaches with the likelihood of muddier
conditions under foot - Graham.
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12/09/2021 - work reprofiling the main ride has continued apace
since our last visit and it looks like the excavations to widen and
camber the first section, has been completed. Access to this section is still restricted
while further work or ride recovery takes place.
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27/08/2021 - first visit to the reserve after returning from our
August trip to the Northumbrian coast - to find that the reprofiling
work has begun on the wood's main ride. As the notice on site
states, this work is designed to allow rain water to drain off the
ride more easily, so that it is not churned into mud by
visitors. Overshading trees will also be cleared either side
of the ride as part of this work. Obviously there will be no
public access to the areas being worked on.
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27/08/2021 - Brownes' Pieces, the field acquired by the Trust in 2002, is
increasingly being covered in greenery as its planted saplings grow in
height. There are at least two spindle trees amongst these
saplings and this time of year their leaves are turning russet.
Later on their pink fruits will open to display orange seeds.
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Sunday
conservation
work parties are now running once a fortnight until March 2022
Contact
me for more details if you are interested in joining us
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Last Conservation Update
12/09/2021
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The coppice section shown above is one
of the quadrants in the box junction. This quadrant was last cut in
2015 and since then its hazel stools have grown sufficiently to
begin shading out ground flora. Click here
or the on the image to open the conservation work webpage to see our progress so far.
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