5th April 2007

Woodland Spring Walk

Spring is one of the best times of year to take a walk in the woods, a time when the flowers provide splashes of welcome colour and the trees and shrubs are bursting into life. So give your self a treat and visit Rowhill Nature Reserve on Sunday 22nd April to join a guided walk around this lovely site. Come along and enjoy the woodland flowers, listen to the bird song and find out something about the site’s history and current management.

Covering 55 acres Rowhill Nature Reserve lies on the Surrey/Hampshire borders and consists of mixed woodland, a four-acre meadow, ponds, streams, a bog which forms the source of the River Blackwater and about eight acres of heathland. This very diverse habitat supports a wide variety of flora and fauna and spring is when the woodland flowers – including wood sorrel, wood anemone, lesser celandine, wood spurge, dog violet, thyme-leaved speedwell, ivy-leaved speedwell and barren strawberry – are at their most impressive.

The event has been organised by Rowhill Nature Reserve Society and starts at 2.30pm with walks led by conservation volunteers, beginning from the Field Centre, located off Cranmore Lane, Aldershot by the junction of the A325. Admission is free – though donations are always welcome – and light refreshments will be available. For more information ring 01252 319749.

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For further information contact: Christine Reeves, Visitor Promotions Officer
on 01252 331353. Blackwater Valley Countryside Partnership, Ash Lock Cottage, Government Road, Aldershot GU11 2PS.

NOTES

Rowhill Nature Reserve lies on the Surrey/Hampshire borders. Owned by Rushmoor Borough Council it is managed by the Rowhill Nature Reserve Society.
The Blackwater Valley Countryside Partnership (BVCP) is funded by the County, District and Parish Councils along the River Blackwater. It works to promote community action in conservation and recreation and to protect the Valley for the enjoyment and well being of the whole community.
Members of the Blackwater Valley Countryside Partnership are: Hampshire County Council, Surrey County Council; the District, Town and Borough Councils of Blackwater & Hawley, Bracknell Forest, Farnham, Guildford, Hart, Rushmoor, Sandhurst, Surrey Heath, Waverley, Wokingham and Yateley.