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…
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 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…
29th November 2023 – River & Riverbank Maintenance
On the opposite side of the road to the Source of the Itchen, the group cleared the river and the river banks to improve the flow of the river. This…
24th September 2023 – Tree Planting Hedge Cutting
In order to protect the emerging tree saplings, the hedges around each sapling needs to be trimmed to allow the hedge cutting to be safely carried out. This is a…
12th July 2023 – Cheriton goes to Westminster
National Park Protector Awards 2023. On Wednesday 12th July Chris and Barry went to the House of Commons in London. The Cheriton Conservation Volunteer Group were in the final for…
21st & 24th May 2023 – Tree Planting Development
Here are a set of photographs taken early on the above dates. They show the hedgerow locations where the trees were planted in January 2023. Upper Lamborough Lane East of…
26th February 2023 – Ivy Clearing in Hill House Lane
This task was to relieve trees of Ivy which, in some cases, was throttling the host trees. This will take the load off each tree and is intended to prolong…
29th January 2023 – Tree & Hedge Planting
On Sunday the 29th January a group of Cheriton volunteers aided by eight members of the Alresford & Cheriton Scouts planted trees and hedging. This was along the fields of…
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