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NWT has just heard about an exciting event happening in Lincoln on 29 September - LiGHTS - if you are interested in "a chance to find out about research and discovery at the University of Lincoln by trying out equipment, exploring the university, taking part in experiments, hearing about the latest discoveries and seeing how research can affect all our lives" ALL FREE, please visit http://lightsexpo.org/
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Our work at ALNR has been Highly Commended in the category "Urban and Community Forestry Award", from the Royal Forestry Society!
Sara and Robyn Bright represented NWT at the event to collect the certificate. Credit to RFS/Les Starling for photos.
Sara and Robyn Bright represented NWT at the event to collect the certificate. Credit to RFS/Les Starling for photos.
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10 August 2017 - a lovely shot of a common blue butterfly, taken by Rod Newborough
Mark Johnson's latest drone footage
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AAA Nursery Bed
Next time you are at ALNR, go and have a look at the nursery bed in the AAA area in Monks Wood - St Mary's Welton have been! The children have researched what plants the deer won't touch and made a lovely job of sorting out the bed and planting it up on Friday 9 June. It will be very interesting to see how this area grows through the summer and what insects visit. Thank you St Mary's! |
26 May 2017
We are delighted to announce that we reached the final three in the Community category in the Lincolnshire Environmental Awards 2017. We didn't win this year, but are proud of our 'Highly Commended' certificate. Thank you to Chris Williams and Rod Newborough for their presentation to the judges and thanks to the judges for placing us in the final of this category.
We are delighted to announce that we reached the final three in the Community category in the Lincolnshire Environmental Awards 2017. We didn't win this year, but are proud of our 'Highly Commended' certificate. Thank you to Chris Williams and Rod Newborough for their presentation to the judges and thanks to the judges for placing us in the final of this category.
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Clean It Up!
There are a few visitors to Ashing Lane Nature Reserve who do not TAKE THEIR LITTER HOME, but there are other wonderful folk who help us to keep ALNR such a wonderful place to visit and to them a very big THANK YOU! Recent visitors will have noticed the installation of two new bright red dog mess bins, one in the LWT car park and one outside the Threshold into Monks Wood - please make use of these if you are exercising your dog in the Nature Reserve. |
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27 May 2017
Have a look at this video, how different the woods are since the previous drone videos! Also watch out for the barn owl from 0:46 as it flies south over the All Abilities Area over South Wood and out at the bottom right corner of the video at 1:01.
Have a look at this video, how different the woods are since the previous drone videos! Also watch out for the barn owl from 0:46 as it flies south over the All Abilities Area over South Wood and out at the bottom right corner of the video at 1:01.
29 April 2017
Chris Williams has been looking closely at the drone footage that Mark has shot, and has done some research about some of the details revealed:
"Back in the day, I was a historian and of course read about making discoveries of ancient sites by the use of aerial photography to show old lines in arable fields. Well, it also works down Ashing Lane without a lot of sunshine, although what I can see is neither medieval nor Roman nor Iron Age.
The best example is at 38 seconds on [the] latest film, where there is a good view of South Wood. The hedges dividing Monks Wood from Coop Wood (left … or east) and Watts Wood (right or west) are obvious, but there are also two more north-south dividing lines, roughly from top to bottom either side of the South Glade.
These date back to the Dunholme Tithe Award of 1844. If I am right
- the right-hand third was numbered 79, It was known as Hardings Meadow, owned by Edward Watson and farmed by Thomas Moffatt. It was 7 acres, 1 rood and 1 perch in area.
- the other two sections were both numbered 78. They were known as Far Hardings, owned by Eliza Dixon and farmed by John Morris. They were 10 acres, 3 rood and 8 perch in area.
All three were described as ‘Meadow'."
Chris Williams has been looking closely at the drone footage that Mark has shot, and has done some research about some of the details revealed:
"Back in the day, I was a historian and of course read about making discoveries of ancient sites by the use of aerial photography to show old lines in arable fields. Well, it also works down Ashing Lane without a lot of sunshine, although what I can see is neither medieval nor Roman nor Iron Age.
The best example is at 38 seconds on [the] latest film, where there is a good view of South Wood. The hedges dividing Monks Wood from Coop Wood (left … or east) and Watts Wood (right or west) are obvious, but there are also two more north-south dividing lines, roughly from top to bottom either side of the South Glade.
These date back to the Dunholme Tithe Award of 1844. If I am right
- the right-hand third was numbered 79, It was known as Hardings Meadow, owned by Edward Watson and farmed by Thomas Moffatt. It was 7 acres, 1 rood and 1 perch in area.
- the other two sections were both numbered 78. They were known as Far Hardings, owned by Eliza Dixon and farmed by John Morris. They were 10 acres, 3 rood and 8 perch in area.
All three were described as ‘Meadow'."
All Abilities Area
29 March 2017
25 February 2017
Photo by Mark Johnson - thanks again, Mark
...of our woodlands at Ashing Lane
"I just walked through all the woodland this morning. Wild flowers, butterflies and bees, long grass heads, sunshine, shade, a breeze, stillness, meeting smiling fellow-wanderers, dragonflies, bullrushes, pairs of coots, bird song, the Book of Oaks in its glorious carpet of grasses and flowers. Quintessential timeless beauty of English managed countryside at its very best.”
Charles Pickering 18 July 2016
"I just walked through all the woodland this morning. Wild flowers, butterflies and bees, long grass heads, sunshine, shade, a breeze, stillness, meeting smiling fellow-wanderers, dragonflies, bullrushes, pairs of coots, bird song, the Book of Oaks in its glorious carpet of grasses and flowers. Quintessential timeless beauty of English managed countryside at its very best.”
Charles Pickering 18 July 2016
New benches in Ashing Lane Nature Reserve
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We are pleased to announce that several splendid new benches have recently been installed in Monks Wood, thanks to a generous grant from the Dulverton Trust and a donation from Waitrose.
The gallery photos show the locations of the benches - you might like to take advantage of them yourself, to enjoy the now well-filled pond in the All Abilities Area or the classroom at the inner end of the willow tunnel. With thanks to the family using the picnic table and the dapper gent in the red jacket for permission to use these pictures. |
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Gallery
Enjoy the photos that have been taken at the projects we have been involved with, we are sure they will inspire you to visit the woodlands!
If you have taken a photo in one of these places and would like to share it, it can be uploaded and may be added to this gallery.
If you have taken a photo in one of these places and would like to share it, it can be uploaded and may be added to this gallery.
