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12 Issue 63 • July 2023
SUSTAINABLE WORCESTER
Why we’re Wild about
the Worcester Way!
So you think you Battenhall Park, the largest green
know Worcester space in St Peter’s including woodland,
orchards and a play area. This used
well… but do you? to be a deer park and now features
the restored Duck Brook, Battenhall
We invite you to take the Wild about Woods and Duck Brook Community
Worcester challenge this summer – Orchard.
and walk a brand new 12-mile circular
trail. Take your family, friends and a Bromwich Parade by the River Severn.
picnic! Look out for swans, the Diglis Fish
Pass (used by 25 different species last
The newly launched route, which takes year) and the Diglis Island sand martin
in woodland, meadows, waterways, boxes.
flora and fauna, is the brainchild of the
Worcester Environmental Group. Chapter Meadows, a medieval
floodplain meadow used for hay crops
Supported by funding from the City and cattle grazing.
Council, volunteers have carefully
waymarked the entire route, which Offerton Lane Local Nature Reserve Wild About
you can join from a number of points. is made up of two wetland areas: Worcester Way
reedbed and pond. These were once
“We hope that the Wild About common throughout the UK – but over habitats. The area is predominantly
Worcester Way will connect people 40% of England’s reedbeds have been agricultural land, bordered by
with nature on their doorstep lost since 1945. hedgerows.
and improve their physical
and mental health,” says Paul Perdiswell Park lies next to the Warndon Wood Local Nature Reserve
Snookes, co-founder of Worcester Worcester and Birmingham Canal and is thought to have originally been part
Environmental Group. features Perdiswell Marsh. There has of an ancient royal forest that spanned
been vigorous tree planting in the area Worcestershire and Warwickshire. St
“The route serves as a ‘wildlife over the past few years, with the aim Nicholas’s Church, believed to have
corridor’, boosting biodiversity and of creating 2.5 hectares of new native Anglo Saxon origins, can be found
protecting the environment.” woodland. along the route. Look out for the
800-year-old yew tree in the Church
grounds – one of the two oldest yews
Look out for 15 wild beauty spots Red Hill offers spectacular views of
along the way: the Malvern Hills and many wildlife in Worcestershire!
Wild About Worcester Way also
takes in Cherry Orchard Local Nature
Reserve, Gheluvelt Park, Nunnery
Wood, Pitchcroft, Racefield Meadow,
Worcester and Birmingham Canal,
Worcestershire County Hall grounds
and Worcestershire Woods Country
Park.
CALLING ALL SCHOOLS,
COMMUNITY GROUPS AND
BUSINESSES
Why not organise a sponsored walk
around the 12-mile loop, and raise
money for a good cause?
Former Mayor of Worcester Cllr View route map at www.theweg.org.
Paul Snookes, of the Worcester Adrian Gregson at the launch of
Environmental Group the Wild About Worcester Way uk/wild-about-worcester
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