The Village Voice Oct Nov 2018
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Old Milford Meadow - ‘Secret Garden’<br />
If you live near or walk through All Saints’<br />
Churchyard, you cannot have helped noticing<br />
activity in the nearby overgrown meadow<br />
behind the yew hedge.<br />
MCV NEWS<br />
www.milfordcv.org<br />
You may also<br />
recall having<br />
read that the<br />
late Miss<br />
Diana<br />
Gillespie<br />
bequeathed<br />
the southern<br />
part of the land to the Milford community. <strong>The</strong><br />
Parish Council is the new owner of this part,<br />
whilst the larger northern part, off Knowland<br />
Drive/Dacres Walk, is now in the hands of<br />
Christchurch Priory.<br />
Pedestrian access gate to the ‘Secret Garden’<br />
If your community group, nursery or<br />
association wishes to help restore this very old<br />
garden for public use, let Sarah know at the<br />
Parish Office (644410) and you will be<br />
circulated about future work sessions.<br />
‘Every one of us can do a little, but<br />
together we can do a lot’<br />
In early September, both MCV and the New<br />
Forest Area Conservation Volunteers,<br />
commenced the restoration of the meadow,<br />
community orchard and garden. <strong>The</strong> first job<br />
was to clear the gateway to allow a tractor flail<br />
machine to get<br />
in to clear dense<br />
stands of<br />
bramble<br />
throughout the<br />
site and to take<br />
its first proper<br />
hay cut for<br />
many years.<br />
<strong>The</strong> cleared tractor entrance at the five-bar gate<br />
<strong>The</strong> rampant bramble covering the garden area<br />
and surrounding the existing Hinoki Cypress,<br />
Medlar, Hawthorn, Weeping White Mulberry,<br />
Roses and Fruit trees was all cleared away,<br />
leaving work that can now be undertaken by<br />
hand.<br />
Unseasoned logs available<br />
Steve or Lorraine Mabbett<br />
lorrainemabbett@sky.com<br />
(01590) 381255 or<br />
(07543) 901324<br />
or<br />
keithmetcalf@btinternet.com<br />
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