King’s Wood Blog

Well the sun shone………lots – and the rainfall was sparse. The weather and its impact on the newly planted wood is without doubt the key topic. Analysis of Met Office sunshine hours for our region suggests “a lot ” and “way above average” as two simple measures!...

Starting on Sunday 30th November and every last Sunday of the month going forward there will be a “walkabout” through the King’s Wood. These are nature rambles with some knowledge sharing paired with an old fashioned Sunday afternoon stroll. They will start at 2pm in any weather....

I’ve been waiting for a rainy day to write the next KW blog, they have been few and very far between but today, 14th November is entirely a different matter, it’s lashing it down and looks set for the day. So this is probably the best thing...

Great Gidding 80 years ago An aerial photograph of Great Gidding taken by the RAF on the 10th August 1945. In what was a momentous week in world affairs we’ll take a view on how our local landscape was looking and what was going on in the...

Lets talk Scything, a bit of a renaissance hobby at the moment Mid month a group of scything enthusiasts met in the KW to help drop the grass headland alongside the brook and a bit more besides. Powered by tea and cakes the group was able to...

Hello, welcome to the first King’s Wood blog. In the following months I hope to inform, entertain and give an insight into planting and managing a brand new wood in the Huntingdonshire landscape. Actually we are already one and half years into the project but then woodlands are...