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Would you consider helping us by buying a ticket, and asking your friends and family too?
⬅ Click the logo for more information. Our draw was made on 31 October 2023. The winners are... 1st prize - £33.00 goes to Wendy Booth 2nd prize - £19.80 goes to H Williams 3rd prize - £13.20 goes to Anonymous of Lyme Regis |
Walking in Wet WoodlandThe whole of Ashing Lane Nature Reserve is VERY WET
Please be very careful, especially at two places: The Bridge between Middle and North Wood: - the water level may be very high. - the banks are steep and muddy - KEEP TO THE BRIDGE The bridleway at the south east corner of Coop Wood:: - this is where the bridleway crosses the dyke and the water goes through a culvert underneath. - the duke my be hidden by flood water and you may not be able to distinguish the watercourse itself - the water may be moving very quickly - the banks are very steep and muddy - AVOID THE EDGES - KEEP TO THE CENTRE OF THE BRIDLEWAY |
ENJOY YOUR WALK
BUT PLEASE BE CAREFUL |
Are you interested in volunteering with Nettleham Woodland Trust?
Our next work morning is Saturday, 5 November: 09:00-13:00
Meet at the Threshold into South Wood.
Please email admin@nettlehamwoodlandtrust.co.uk if you are coming
Our next work morning is Saturday, 5 November: 09:00-13:00
Meet at the Threshold into South Wood.
Please email admin@nettlehamwoodlandtrust.co.uk if you are coming
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Many thanks to IGas for a grant of £846 to pay for tools and equipment for use at our monthly maintenance work mornings.
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Thanks also to the Michael Cornish Charitable Trust for a generous grant of £1,000 to pay for signage at Ashing Lane Nature Reserve
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CUNNING RUNNING IN MONKS WOODOn Sunday 5th February NWT organised its first orienteering activity in Monks Wood. The main purpose of this Sunday morning event was to test the special map and the controls financed by our funders, Magic LocalGiving. Two short courses, each with seven controls, were set out. Participants then read the map to plan a route from the carpark through the woodland back to the carpark taking in features such as the Monk Oak, our Humber Bridge and the tunnel.
We were helped by families, teachers and the school dog from Ellison Boulters Primary School and one of our Duke of Edinburgh Award gold candidates. We counted them all out and counted them all back. Everyone was happy and no-one too muddy. It proved to be ideal for novices. |
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The area is small and the routes currently depend on using the paths. At the moment the woods are too thick and prickly for people to run through, but over the next few years many of the lower horizontal branches will be cut back to allow more smaller woodland plants such as bluebells to grow on the forest floor. So, perhaps by 2030, orienteers will be able to practice advanced compass skills away from the paths, but only outside the nesting season. We look forward to this.
In the meantime NWT would be pleased to welcome small groups of orienteering novices to Monks Wood. We also have a nature trail. Please get in touch through our contacts page.
In the meantime NWT would be pleased to welcome small groups of orienteering novices to Monks Wood. We also have a nature trail. Please get in touch through our contacts page.
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Tree planting at Minster FieldsWe have successfully planted 300 new trees at Minster Fields, which is part of Nettleham Parish. Nett Zero (the Nettleham Parish Council's climate change working group) has worked with the developer (Taylor Lindsey) to plant a new copse on the amenity land on the south east corner between the ring road and Nettleham Road.
The weather was kind, despite the forecast. We planted 12 species to enhance biodiversity, including flowers, fruit and nuts and some species are also enjoyed by butterflies and pollinators. Here is the list: beech, buckthorn, crab apple, field maple, hawthorn, hazel, hornbeam, oak, rowan, silver birch, spindleberry and wild cherry. You can see the trees from the Nettleham Road, so hopefully they will also provide interest and enjoyment to the locals who use the site. |
Community Champion in NettlehamA very big thank you to all the members of the Coop who shopped in Nettleham between 4 December 2022 and 4 March 2023!
We will receive a whopping £915.36! |
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A big thank you to Gusto Community Fund - we have been given a £500 grant to help us maintain the Reserve.
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The Tower
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It is with great sadness that we must announce the death of Joy Monk after a long illness. Joy was the widow of Dennis Monk after whom Monk's Wood is named in acknowledgement of his service as a former chairman of WREN. The name itself, the Monk Oak, our keystone tree facing the main threshold, and a bench are three tokens of the esteem in which Dennis was held by his family, friends and colleagues.
Joy became an enthusiastic supporter with a keen interest in both the project and the people. Memorably she played a central role at the Grand Opening of Monks Wood in May 2011 and kept in regular touch with NWT exchanging many letters with Susie Mendel. Recently she made a donation to support a project with 100 buckthorn bushes planted in five locations to attract more brimstone butterflies. Her last visit to Monks Wood was on 1st June 2019 when she and her son and daughter, Simon and Helen, attended Monks Wood's 10th birthday party. |
Planting East and West Copse, PC Wood, Police HQ Nettleham 29/01 & 5/2/2022
We are delighted that about 2,500 new trees have been planted in the village, courtesy of the Police HQ with trees from LCC's Treescapes Fund - more photos HERE
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WORK ON MONKS WOOD'S NORTH WOOD PATH IMPROVEMENTS
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The path from Dunholme Beck through the North Wood to our ‘Humber bridge’ will be closed for several months FROM MONDAY 17 JANUARY.
Photo taken on 4th February 2021
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In January 2022, the level of the path from the 'Humber Bridge" was raised by a metre. Along the edges of the path, channels have been shaped into a series of ponds which will hold the water in winter.
When the ground has dried out, hopefully in early spring, the path will be rolled and grass seed sown. Along the damp edges, a wildflower seed mixture suitable for clay and wet soils will be sown. We hope that these improvements will alleviate future flooding from the ditch and make North Wood more accessible to visitors in winter. It will take a few months for the grass seed to grow before the path can be re-opened for public access. We thank you for your patience. NWT would like to thank Lincolnshire County Council's Community Wildlife Grant and Localgiving's Magic Little Grants for generously funding the flooding alleviation project in North Wood. 
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Please remember that Ashing Lane Nature Reserve was created to protect nature.
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Dogs should be on a lead - there may be sheep in the meadows and wildlife such as deer and ground nesting birds should not be disturbed.
Keep dogs out of the ponds and lake. There are bins for dog waste in the car park and near the main entrance into South Wood |
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... and PLEASE take your rubbish home
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Now installed..
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https://www.thebikestoragecompany.co.uk/product/the-toastrack-cycle-rack/
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NETTLEHAM WOODLAND
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Also in lockdown, because we enjoy going on a walk there we decided to raise some money for the trust. We chose to walk around the Close we live on and ask for some sponsors from our neighbours and friends and family. We thought it would be a good idea to do it on VE day which is why we decided to do 75 laps, this was about 5km. Lots of our neighbours came out to support us on this journey and to enjoy their afternoon tea . We had our VE day afternoon tea on our front garden in between doing all the walking.
After we did this Bertie was very tired, I was a bit tired too. In the end we raised £309. Thank you to Freddie and Bertie and well done! |
Close encounter... Ashing Lane Nature Reserve resident meets a young visitor
Susie took this amazing photo at Coop Lake on Christmas morning.
The Monk Oak Bench June 2019 |
Now installed, with thanks to our sponsors
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A Forester's Jottings Rod Newborough is the Woodland Advisor for Nettleham Woodland Trust. A professional forester for half a century he has gathered together collection of short stories which he has published in this booklet " A Forester's Jottings"
A unique insight into the life of a forester and excellent value at £3.00 a copy, inclusive P&P. All proceeds to NWT. Order your copy through Paypal... |
Drone footage of ALNR - summer 2018
With thanks to Richard Ball and Stuart Dallas.
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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! |
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'."
Biodiversity
We like to record the different plants, birds and animals seen at our woodlands, please see the detailed pages in the ALNR menu for more information.
