WALKS TO CLEAR AND SPRUCE UP OUR FAMOUS LOCAL PATHS
The Windcross Paths Group is arranging two walks this summer to allow people to enjoy (and also tidy up!) two of the famous paths which our group established some thirty years ago.
Our first walk will be on Saturday 30th July along Poets’ Path 2, starting at 0930 from Wintours Green in Dymock. The second will be on Saturday 27th August along Poets’ Path 1, starting again at 0930 from Wintours Green.
We are hoping volunteers will agree to take on smaller sections of the path and detailed maps of the whole routes will be provided. We will also provide binbags for collecting litter. Please bring your own secateurs for cutting back any annoying brambles e.g. by stiles and gates.
If you are interested in taking part, please contact both Mike Townsend (mpt4@btinternet.com) and Jackie Tweedale (tweedale1956@btinternet.com) .
It is hoped, if we have sufficient numbers, to finish up with lunch back at the Beauchamp Arms.
Daffs Project is blooming
Daffodils in the Dymock Forest are to be featured on Easter Sunday’s BBC Countryfile programme.
Countryfile presenter Ellie Harrison and crew visited the area recently to film a project aiming to protect wild daffodils.
Kate Wollen, from Aylton and Assistant Ecologist for Forestry England, welcomed Ellie to Shaw Common to understand the Dymock Forest Rural Action group’s wild daffodil project, which removed garden ‘daffs’ from the area to keep the natural genepool sacrosanct.
Their conversation ranged from the value of countryside access through lockdown to the threat to biodiversity in ancient woodlands due to climate change.
With attention to social-distancing measures, filming took place at several locations, including at Shaw Common, the European seed stand for Sessile Oak acorns, and at St Mary’s church Kempley, with other filming including a journey through time about the history of the daffodils of the Golden Triangle and a look at what makes the wild daffodil so special.
Easter Sunday’s edition of Countryfile can be seen this Sunday at 7pm on BBC1.
The Forester March 30th 2021
Windcross Paths Group Summer Heritage Ramble
In memory of Barbara Davis who helped create so many of the local footpath walks and illustrated the footpath maps.
