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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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At Last, a Web Site Update
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05/01/2020 - my first visit to the reserve of 2020. Because of wet
weather in December the Wildlife Trust have decided to close part of
the wood to prevent too much damage occurring to the main rides.
This of course has put more pressure on the wood's other paths and threatens
to damage much of the path protection work we have done the past
couple of years. Visitor please wear correct foot wear, stay on the paths at all
times and walk in the middle of the path and not along its edge.
Since my last update, the coppice section on the main ride has
changed quite a bit. Most of the main hazel stools have been
cut in one of the coppice scallops, except for those along the ride
side ditch. On my last visit I started to cut some of these hazel,
laying a "dead hedge" along the ditch. Much work
remains though before this task is finished.
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08/12/2019 - it's surprising how much timber one hazel stool can
contain. The image below shows all the poles cut from one hazel.
Very hard work if cut by a bow saw, which was why I used a chain
saw. Once the cutting is finished the difficult bit starts,
processing the timber into poles for hedging, topsfor stool protect
and the remainder for hedge binding.
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24/11/2019 - compare this coppice section view from late autumn
last year, with a few leaves still hanging on, to the one above from
05/01/2020.
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Conservation
work party dates are:
12th & 26 Jan 2020
9th & 23rd Feb
8th & 22nd Mar
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Last Update
20/11/2019
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The view above shows the conservation
work so far in part of
the new coppice section. Click here
to see our progress 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 on the beach
from last year's holiday in Devon. As usual we have had
to go incognito, Barbara in shades whilst I'm barely disguised
in a funny hat.
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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