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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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Reserve Temporarily Closed
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18/10/2020 - the recent rainy weather has had its usual impact on
the wood's rides and paths. These are now a muddy quagmire.
For this reason the Wildlife Trust have closed Waresley and Gransden
woods to public access to protect the wood's infrastructure.
Brownes' Pieces remains open.
Stay safe and respect social distancing
while in the reserve - Graham.
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18/10/2020 - when walking in Brownes' Pieces keep an eye open for the
small number of spindle trees that have been planted there. At this
time of year their distinctive pink fruit cases and orange seeds are
hard to miss.
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27/09/2020 - a splintered oak branch greeted us on our visit to the
reserve today. This large limb is hanging over the wood's main
ride. There is also another, barely attached branch balanced
above it. I have sign posted this hazard and ask visitors to
not enter the taped area. The Wildlife Trust are going to cut
the limb free during the week commencing 05/10/2020. This tree
has now been safely dealt with.
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27/09/2020 - a bit of a delayed start to conservation work this year,
partly due to taking a late week's holiday in September.
However, today we marked out this year's main ride side coppice
section on Howard's ride. It's a scallop shaped section,
containing as usual a number of large overgrown hazel stools.
Watch this space for developments.
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Conservation
work parties have now started and will run until the end of March 2021
Contact
me if you are interested in joining us
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Last Conservation Update
30/10/2020
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The coppice section shown above is
gradually opening up as we remove hazel. Last cut in 2008 it contains a good
selection of large hazel stools. Click here
or the on the image to open my 2020 conservation work flickr album to see our progress so far.
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