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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 the reserve follow this link.
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A Car Park Tidy Up
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28/10/2018 - today, with the help of the brush cutter and
chainsaw, we were able to complete the hedge cutting begun in
September. As well as finishing the hedge we gave the car park
a general tidy up for the winter.
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21/10/2018 - the wood was very photogenic on this Sunday's
visit. It took quite a while to reach the coppice section as I
had to keep stopping to take pics of the sun shining through the
mist and trees. As you can see from the image below, there are
now only about three really "monster" stools remaining in
this part of the section. Another couple of sessions should
see this bit cleared.
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07/10/2018 - I'm taking the opportunity of a bit of space in
the coppice section to layer two hazel poles in the hope of growing
two new hazel stools. The cutting and bending of these poles,
as shown above, looks a bit brutal but providing there is some bark
and wood left intact the pole will continue to live. Burying
it should encourage new roots to form and then viola, a new tree.
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Conservation
work party dates are:
4th & 18th Nov
2nd, 16th & 30 Dec
13th & 27th Jan 2019
10th & 24th Feb
10th & 24th Mar
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Last Update
21/10/2018
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Work continues on the Meer's ride
coppice section Quite a large scallop of cleared hazel is now
emerging. Click here
to see what we have achieved so far.
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Want
to see what the reserves looked like in December 1945? Well
you can now using Google Earth. Click here
for more details.
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To learn more about the
history of Waresley parish and the amenities it has to offer, click
on this link
to visit the village's website.
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| A pic from our
recent holiday in East Devon, a couple more fossils found on
Charmouth beach.
If you have any
questions about the woods, require further information on
work parties or wish to comment upon this website, you can contact me, Graham Moorby, Volunteer Warden at:
graham@waresleywood.co.uk
@grahammoorby
#waresleywood
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