Swan Lane river restoration update
A group of 10 very enthusiastic village volunteers met over two weekends by Swan Lane Bridge in early November. With the years of overgrown vegetation now cut back the extent…
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Swan Lane clearance – September/October 2024
Over several weeks a group of volunteers cleared many years of debris, brambles and ivy from the banks and river by the Swan Lane Bridge. This clearance work was supported…
Duck Pond – Summer 2024
During the summer months the Purple Loosestrife, Water Avens and Water Forget Me Not have flowered profusely and been admired by the many people walking along Ducks Lane and sitting…
Update on the work in the Duck Pond
In mid-April volunteers gathered at the Duck Pond and hammered in a further row of Chesnut stakes and wired faggot bundles on the road side of the river. Over 40 coir…
Work continues on Ducks Lane improvements
With the ‘berms’ low level shelves now in place and the reject flint which will be topped with gravel rounding off the Frogmore corner, the river will be left to…
Improvement works to Ducks Lane area have begun
Work has begun to stabilise the banks and improve the habitat and flow of our historic chalk stream which rises in the Seven Springs area north of Newmarket and flows through to Wicken Fen, the River Cam…