22nd & 27th March 2025 – Community Orchard
This is an initiative funded by the Hampshire Forest Partnership. The location is at the west end of the village on the Recreation Ground. Location It consists of two separate…
23rd February 2025 – Scrub Clearance & Tree Planting
This was a new location to the group. It was the field at the very top of the Freeman's Yard land. The final aim was to plant disease resistant elm…
27th October 2024 – Riverbank Maintenance
The work was concerned with general upkeep of the river banks. This consisted of overhanging branches, hedges and tidying up of several lengths of riverbank. The work was distributed in…
29th September 2024 – River Weed Clearance
The weather this year has caused the extensive growth of weed in the streams feeding into the upper courses of the River Itchen. The one danger this makes is when…
Rewilding
The Hinton Ampner Estate has been rewilding a number of fields on its property portfolio. This image shows the difference on the fields Kilmeston Lane & Springshott. Both were taken…
28th July 2024 – Clearing Channel for Kilmeston Stream.
The task was to open out the channel immediately after the B3046 adjacent to the Itchen Source Pond. Avoidance of this task would cause the water draining from the pond…
30th June 2024 – River Weed Clearance and Bank Maintenance
The work was split into two locations. On the Bramdean/Kilmeston Stream alongside the B3046 and further downstream in the village close to Admirals Bridge. The former was the clearance of…
26th May 2024 – River Weed Clearance
To allow the Environment Agency and... to begin the long term river maintenance programme, the group cleared weeds in the river and on the river and riverbanks around the village.
25th February 2024 – River Weed Clearance
This effort was centred on the Island near the Kilmeston Crossroads. It is on the Bramdean Stream. Martin clearing weeds near the B3046 Weed Clearance further upstream. Martin (another), Pat…
28th January 2024 – Tree & Hedge Planting
On a cheerier day than a year ago the group continued the tree and hedging planting scheme. They were ably assisted by the Cheriton & Alresford Scout Group. Planting started…