Old Springs Wood, Northcliffe

starting top of Lynton Drive

Our work today focussed on the entrance to the woods at the top of Lynton Drive. Damage had been caused when a major water main burst earlier in the year, and Yorkshire Water needed access to gardens through the woods for their repair work. 

We installed four steps to improve accessibility at the entrance to the woods, but we also took the opportunity to clear snowberry shrub from the woodland in preparation to plant some native trees to create a more varied area of scrub later in the year. We also cut back bramble and other vegetation from a footpath leading up to the meadow, exposing a section of steps and making it easier to walk through. 

Yorkshire Water had planted a collection of replacement trees at the Lynton Drive entrance, but in order to hasten the establishment of woodland ground flora, we undertook some sensitive translocation of a few plants from other areas of the wood. This work was continued by local residents.