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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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16/09/2018 - on the non work party Sundays we shall be spending
a bit of time getting the car park ready for winter. The first
job is to cut back the hedge and vegetation along the car park's
boundary with the road. The smaller side has been done first,
warm work with a chain saw in the sun. I managed to cut half the
hedge on the other side but ran out of time and definitely energy.
The guelder rose bushes in the car park are loaded with red berries
and their leaves are turning red as well. We'll leave these for the
birds to feast on.
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09/09/2018 - thanks to the efforts of volunteers Barbara, Jack,
Tom, Graham and Oliver good progress has been made already on the
new coppice section we have started to clear on Meer's ride.
Already quite a large clearing has been made with the non hazel
trees being removed first. In the following weeks we'll extend
this section until it joins the plot coppiced in 2016.
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02/09/2018 - the section of Meer's ride towards the entrance gate
will be the first conservation job this season. This area has
not been coppiced for at 12 years and contains some really large
hazel stools. The shading from these trees has removed all the
flora on the woodland floor.
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Conservation
work party dates are:
3rd Sept
7th & 21st Oct
4th & 18th Nov
2nd, 16th & 30 Dec
13th & 27th Jan 2019
10th & 24th Feb
10th & 24th Mar
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Last Update
09/09/2018
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Work parties have now begun for the
2018-19 season. The first task this year is to coppice a
section of Meer's ride. 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 recent family
wedding, proof that we can still both scrub up quite well.
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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