Tag Archives: nature

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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Winding Down For Christmas

Posted on December 11, 2024 by Paul - Cawston Greenway

Six wildlife heroes turned out today (Reece, Marcus, Steve, Matt, Martin and Paul) and we cracked on with pushing out the scallop pockets and creating windows on the other side of the path to let shafts of sunlight into the … Continue reading →

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Couch-2-10k Trail Walking

Posted on November 27, 2024 by Paul - Cawston Greenway

If you are reading from the WordPress viewer, I would suggest clicking on http://www.cawstongreenway.co.uk for a better viewing experience. Nine wildlife warriors (Marcus, Reece, Dave, Ian, Matt, Steve, Nathan, Martin, and Paul) turned out today in what looked like a … 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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Bacon in the Woods

Posted on November 13, 2024 by Paul - Cawston Greenway

We have a new country tuning in – it’s been a while!! Welcome Barbados… It’s so nice when this happens. I don’t know how people find the blog but it does go out on quite a few platforms and stuff. … 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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A Window Of Sunshine Between Days Of Rain

Posted on October 9, 2024 by Paul - Cawston Greenway

It really seems to have been raining non-stop for ages. Silly me left my wellies out in the garden and I could literally pour water out of them yesterday when I realised. I was dreading the soaking that we were … Continue reading →

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Jaguar Land Rover Day

Posted on October 2, 2024 by Paul - Cawston Greenway

We had another team from the world-famous Jaguar Land Rover this week. Their task was to clear the scrub between the underpass and Berrybanks. It was, unfortunately, a bit of a wet day, but they cracked on regardless. They installed … Continue reading →

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A Surprise But Very Welcome Visit

Posted on September 18, 2024 by Paul - Cawston Greenway

Six of us wildlife warriors made it today so we were able to split up a bit with four going northwards and me and Steve going southwards. We had got towards the end of our run when I noticed this … 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 →