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Step up to the challenge.

An activity with Norwich Midweek Group

Activity date: Friday 24th April 2026

Start time: 10:00
Finish time: 15:00

Activity description

Step up to the challenge. Re-profiling the steps and clearing encroaching vegetation.

Meeting place

If you would like a lift to the site in our minibus, meet at the corner of Queens Road & Brazen Gate, by the traffic lights next to big Sainsbury's car park, opposite Norwich bus station [ what3words: single.affair.robe ] at 10am. Transport also available from near UEA at 9.15am by arrangement. Or you can join us on site, Pilling Park community centre car park, Pilling Park Road, Norwich, NR1 4PA

what3words meeting point: ///second.reform.spits

Activity location

Lion Wood, Pilling Park community centre car park Pilling Park Road Norwich, NR1 4AN

Site description

Lion Wood is an ancient woodland which has been designated an Urban Local Nature Reserve. It was once part of Thorpe Wood - which is mentioned in the Domesday book of 1086 - so the wood was already established over a thousand years ago. It covers 12 hectares (roughly) and is nestled between several residential areas - stretching from telegraph Lane (ajoining the Telegraph Plantation) on it's west side to Pilling Park on it's east and running between Wellesley Avenue South and North. br>A third of the wood is believed to be ancient and the grand old oak trees that you can see are hundreds of years old. br>In the spring the floor is carpeted with bluebells and you can see - or at least hear the calls of green woodpeckers laughing or the scratchy song of the blackcap. br>A friends group is very active within the woodland.

Pick Up Point

Contact

Mark Webster

Telephone: 07740899691
Email: Mark.webster@tcv.org.uk
Website: https://www.tcv.org.uk/eastern/tcv-norfolk/norwich-environmental-action-team/

Please bring

  • packed lunch
  • suitable outdoor clothes
  • suitable outdoor footwear

Further info

WC at town house pub 5 minutes walk away.

Site Facilities

  • Parking
  • Picnic Area
  • Nearest Toilets - Town House pub, Yarmouth Road

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