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Exploring and celebrating landscapes We all have different ideas about what makes a great landscape, so it’s no surprise that there have been lots of different ideas of how to celebrate this special part of the world – and to explore it more too. Woodland Walks in Frampton Buoyed up by the success of developing a Millennium Green in the village, a group of local people spotted a strip of woodland adjacent to the Village Hall that would make a great new asset to the community. The woodland, known as Harry’s Wood, runs peacefully along the River Frome and being central to the village makes it very popular with dog walkers too. Len Harris, who has been a leading light in the group, felt that much could be done to improve the woodland for walkers and for wildlife alike. The first steps for the group were to get specialist advice on what to do with the wood. They drew up a Management Plan for Harry’s Wood on that advice and the butterfly and bird surveys they did themselves. As Ron pointed out ‘this project has turned up quite a lot of skills locally, unearthed lots of local knowledge’. They’ve had to take their health and safety responsibilities seriously and trained up two volunteer chainsaw operators to clear dangerous trees from the path and roadside as well as doing a weekly safety check. Volunteers have also got involved in clearing elder to help other woodland plants grow, building new seats for walkers and installing bird and bat boxes too. One of the volunteers keeps a record of birds and butterflies and highlights them in a column in their monthly parish mag. As well as surprising skills that have been unearthed, volunteer Peter Emery recently found what is thought to be Mesolithic worked flint and Bronze Age remains of an enclosure thought to have been a hunting camp – making Harry’s Wood a very special place in the village indeed.
‘this project has turned up quite a lot of skills locally, unearthed lots of local knowledge’.
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