Chipping Norton Times - Issue 4/5 - January-February

If you are aged 16 - 25
you can join the
Wychwood v programme
The Wychwood v programme has volunteering
opportunities near you. If you like getting muddy
and wet there will be tree planting, coppicing and
other habitat management jobs.
Perhaps you prefer to be indoors and have great IT
skills so you could help us design eye-catching web
pages and display materials.
Interested? Find out more about Wychwood V ...
www.wychwood.v@oxfordshire.gov.uk
01865 815422
Get muddy
Tree planting
Hedgelaying
Dry stone walling
Improving habitats
Don't get muddy
Forest Fair
Steering Group
Research & recording
Recruitment & publicity
What's in it for you?
t-shirts & hoodies
new skills
knowledge & awards
add to your CV
internships
You could help us to
develop our publicity materials.
If you look at our web pages and think, ‘I can do
better than that!’ then you might like to help us to
develop our public face to tell other people what
we are doing and get them to join in.
It would be great for the Project to have a young
person’s voice talking to other young people. And it
would be great experience for anyone hoping to go
into any sort of publicity and
promotional type of work.
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Wychwood v
Countryside Service
Oxfordshire County
Council
Signal Court
Old Station Way
Eynsham
Oxford OX29 4TL
01865 815423
Wychwood
v@oxfordshire.gov.uk
Greystones Farm
(& Salmonsbury Meadows SSSI)
Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust
Greystones Farm Nature Reserve is tucked away to the east of
Bourton-on –the-Water, a short walk from the town centre.
Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust took on the ownership of
Greystones Farm in 2002, setting up a project to manage the
important existing grassland habitats, restoring and
improving other habitats, landscape features and farming
infrastructure. In partnership with a local farmer Greystones
is run as a cattle farm, managed along organic principals with
grazing, silage and hay cutting making up the principal
farming system. The farm is home to the Salmonsbury
Meadow Site of special Scientific Interest (SSSI).
At the south of the farm is Salmonsbury Camp Scheduled
Ancient Monument, covering an area of 27ha. Still visible are
the remains of ramparts which once formed part of a fortified
Iron Age town dating from the late Iron Age and later used by
the Romans. However the human use of the site can be
traced back to the Neolithic with evidence of a causewayed
enclosure taking activity at Greystones back 5000 years.
How to get there
From the traffic lights on the A429 Fosse Way, turn into
Bourton-on-the-Water on Station Road. Follow Station Road
for approximately half a mile, around a right hand bend - park
in the Station Road public car park (pay + display) on your
right behind the garage.( There is no visitor parking at
Greystones Farm). Walk back the way you came to the bend
in the road – turn right shortly onto the narrow lane (marked
with a 'no through road' sign). Turn immediately left on to
Greystones Lane (signposted private road). It is advisable to
phone the farm office to check before your visit
Grid Ref: SP 173209 | Area: 66 Hectares
Facilities
This is a working livestock farm with numerous gates. Paths
are through fields and maybe rutted and very muddy in wet
weather. The site is gently undulating but there are some
cross gradients of up to 12%. There are no seats or resting
places on site.
Reserve Manager:
Tom Beasley-Suffolk (farm office) 01451 810853