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Volunteers will be pleased that for the first time Ashridge has published a long term woodland management plan for the Estate allowing public comment. The draft twenty year plan is being displayed at the V C for a few weeks … Continue reading →

The Bramblings are back from their travels in Scandinavia – they have moved in with their extended family the Chaffinches at the Beeches on the Beacon Road – SP963157. They plan to stay for a few months hoovering up the … Continue reading →

The conservation volunteers have been helping to rejuvenate the boundary hedge at the Old Dairy Farm on the B4506, by having it “laid” – encouraging new shoots and new life into a hedge which has seen better days. At one … Continue reading →

Get out and about as a Volunteer or Visitor. Spring into action on one of these planned events on the Estate. You will need to check on the event details before you sign up at helping.ashridge@nationaltrust.org.uk for one, or two or … Continue reading →

Standing unloved for half a century Rail Copse is now attracting attention from the foresters and the conservation volunteers. The wood, opposite the Bunkhouse on the Aldbury road has been worked over the centuries. Originally known as The Little Copse … Continue reading →

Hidey-holes at Ashridge are normally put together by visiting children, but now in the season-of-goodwill the volunteers have built some dens – twelve dens for Christmas – this years nature theme for children at the Visitor Centre. The dens offer … Continue reading →

Apparently Christmas is now about garlands – wreaths are for funerals! Never mind the term , the volunteers have been using their creative skills to deck the V C with festive spirit, and support the garland making workshops. Plants are … Continue reading →

Like birds following the plough, the volunteers have been returning to Dockey Wood to clear up the debris left by the loggers. It is a quiet spot at this time of year with the bluebells hibernating ready for their moment … Continue reading →

  Of all the conservation tasks undertaken by the volunteers , working on the chalk hills to remove scrub and gather grass cuttings appears to be the most popular – probably because there is a bonfire involved! There is now … Continue reading →

On Sunday the Nation commemorated the ending of the First World War in 1918: four years of fighting; ten million soldiers dead in a foreign field, including almost one million from the British Empire. In Britain alone about three million people … Continue reading →