Tag Archives: cawston greenway

We Rebuild Our Bridge

Posted on March 12, 2025 by Paul - Cawston Greenway

If you are viewing through the WordPress Viewer click on cawstongreenway.co.uk for a far better experience. Seven wildlife superheroes turned out this morning. Reece, Marcus, Steve, Dave, Martin, Ian, and Paul. Today was all about the finishing touches to our new pond … Continue reading →

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Hawthorn Trail

Posted on January 22, 2025 by Paul - Cawston Greenway

If you are viewing via WordPress, click on cawstongreenway.co.uk for a far better experience. Seven wildlife warriors made it today. Matt, Reece, Dave, Steve, Ian, Martin, and Paul, and we pushed on with our alternative path that runs for about … Continue reading →

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Today We Became Civil Engineers

Posted on January 15, 2025 by Paul - Cawston Greenway

We hung up our wildlife warrior capes and donned our hard hats whilst putting our collective minds together to solve our continual flooding issue. Reece, Ian, Matt, Martin, Dave, and Paul turned out with our mattocks and shovels and boy-o-boy … Continue reading →

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Six Mile (10K) Circular Walk

Posted on November 20, 2024 by Paul - Cawston Greenway

I feel that we are ready to put up this six-mile walk. There are loads of ways to track back for much shorter loops, or go further into Dunchurch, but this is the basic backbone of the walk. It starts … Continue reading →

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Scallop Management

Posted on October 16, 2024 by Paul - Cawston Greenway

I have been banging on about “scallops” for ages now. I revisited my woodland management guides and when they talk about scallops along a path edge, they are talking about 50 metres in length and 15 metres deep. I think … Continue reading →

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Scallops and Stuff

Posted on September 25, 2024 by Paul - Cawston Greenway

Six of us wildlife warriors met up today and pushed on with the path on the slightly higher ground, ready for when the main path becomes a mudbath in winter, and we also continued to scallop the path edges. The … Continue reading →

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A Bench With A View…

Posted on September 11, 2024 by Paul - Cawston Greenway

A bit of an odd one today where we kinda went sideways, as well as lengthways, along the path. Our first job was to give the Brook View bench an actual view of the brook. It’s quite hard to make … Continue reading →

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Thank You, George.

Posted on August 28, 2024 by Paul - Cawston Greenway

This week is the last week of the school summer holidays and also the last week that George is with us for his six-month Duke of Edinburgh Silver Award. It’s been great having you on the team, George, and your … Continue reading →

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Forest School Area

Posted on August 14, 2024 by Paul - Cawston Greenway

Hopefully, this will be the last session down this end for a couple of weeks. I for one tend to get itchy feet when we are committing a lot of our time in a single place. Six of us met … Continue reading →

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Back in the Gutter

Posted on August 7, 2024 by Paul - Cawston Greenway

No workday for me last week due to a well-earned holiday. I swapped my usual view for this. However, the guys did a load of work on the path width from The Bear bridge right to the northern end. It’s … Continue reading →