Help Out Day: Coppicing at Skelghyll Woods
Help our rangers with coppicing at Skelgyhll Woods, Ambleside
- Booking essential
- Free event
Have a go at this ancient woodland management technique. We'll be coppicing in Skelghyll Woods as part of our on-going woodland management.
We will provide tools and work gloves, do bring your own gloves if you have them.
Times
The basics
- Booking details
Call 0344 249 1895 Free event. Booking essential.
- Suitability
Not suitable for children
- Meeting point
Meet at the small car park for Stagshaw Gardens and Skelghyll Woods postcode LA22 0HE.
- What to bring and wear
Bring waterproof shoes, boots or wellies, waterproof jacket and sun protection if it's sunny. Work/gardening gloves, if you have some. Bring a pack lunch, snacks and drinks.
- Accessibility
Uneven ground in a woodland area. We will walk from the car park to the woodland (approx. 20 minute walk).
- Other
https://maps.app.goo.gl/6Tcmz6b4KQgeytmc7. what3words freely.clipboard.stables. There are a few parking spaces at that location, and there is Waterhead pay and display car park just under a mile north on the main road (https://maps.app.goo.gl/w5oa5VJe9vzPnjSb6). It's also easily accessible with public transport, on the 555 bus route. The nearest toilets are also at Waterhead carpark.
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