Working Weekends

 1. Saturday: Volunteers clearing and draining the cutting between Parracombe Lane Head (behind the camera) and Cricket Field Lane, while others repair the fence. (Photo: T. Nicholson)

 More photographs after last weekends efforts on the trackbed at Cricket Field Lane, these by Nigel Thompson.

2. Completed  stockproof fencing on the south side near Heddon Hall…

3. … and on the north side - securing the trackbed and field below the A39.

4. From the top of the cutting: water draining nicely beside the trackbed.

5. Within the cutting.

6. Drainage chambers at Cricket Field Lane.

7 Up towards the crossing at Cricket Field Lane.

 

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The work this weekend is be a mixture of drainage work, fencing repairs and further clearance and burning at Cricket Field lane. Wellies or waterproof footwear is advisable! 

 

Please come to Woody Bay each day to sign on at 10am, collect tools and, as parking at the site is limited, combine transport

Depending on the progress made on Friday and Saturday we may well move onto Wistlandpound on Sunday to continue burning the debris from the January weekend.

If there is anyone you know who could be interested in joining in, please pass on the word.

Want to know more? Contact Martyn Budd or Pete Snashall.

STOP PRESS - We now have a generator so as much  tea and coffee as you can drink will be provided on site.

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The last working weekend, at Wistlandpound in January,  was reported in the North Devon Journal