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Scrub Clearance at Haydon Batch

An activity with Bristol Conservation Volunteers

Activity date: Tuesday 3rd December 2024

Start time: 9:45
Finish time: 16:00

Activity description

Come along and help us clear scrub from Haydon Batch in order to prevent encroachment and conserve the species rich grassland that prevails here. This is a A Somer Valley Rediscovered and TCV Project. Join in, feel good.

Meeting place

Outside The Bristol Hotel, Prince Street. Next to Farrs Lane.

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Activity location

Haydon Batch, Entrance to Hayden Que and Sports Club Kilmerston Road Radstock Bath, BA3 3QR

Site description

Haydon Batch is an 8 hectare site in the settlement of Haydon, Radstock. The site is a disused colliery spoil heap (known locally as a batch). Since the closure of the colliery in 1973 and subsequent re-working of the spoil in the 1980s, the batch has been used informally as a greenspace and in 2018 Radstock Town Council purchased it with the dual aims of formalising and improving community access and designating it a Local Nature Reserve. br> br>The key habitat on the site is species rich grassland which can support a very high diversity of plants and invertebrates. This grassland supports several UK Biodiversity Action Plan priority species, three species of orchid and over 25 species of butterfly including Small Heath and White Letter Hairstreak, making it a very significant pollinator site. There are also some areas of plantation woodland on the slopes of the site planted in the late 1980s. br> br>The site is on the Snails Brook which is a tributary of the Wellow Brook. Due to its former use as a spoil heap much of the brook within the site has been culverted since the C20th to allow the spoil to spread over it.

Pick Up Point

Contact

Claire Dinsdale

Telephone: 0117 9291624 / 07739 447995
Email: volunteer-bristol@tcv.org.uk
Website: https://www.tcv.org.uk/southwest

Please bring

  • packed lunch
  • suitable outdoor clothes
  • suitable outdoor footwear

Further info

Somer Valley Rediscovered Green spaces project aims to make the Somer Valley an area of high biodiversity, resilient to climate change and where a vibrant and thriving community lives with a strong connection to nature. Working with a range of partners, including local Town and Parish Council colleagues, and TCV, Somer Valley Rediscovered is working across 5 green spaces in the local area including Midsomer Norton Town Park. You can find out more here - https://somervalleyrediscovered.co.uk/somer-valley/greenspaces/

Site Facilities

  • Parking
  • Toilets
  • Nearest Toilets - Hayden Que and Sports Club

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