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The area around the burnt-out boardwalk and pond-dipping platform is still too wet for machinery to get onto, so it has not yet been possible to make the…

If World Naked Gardening Day on 2nd May didn’t appeal, perhaps you were able to enjoy International Dawn Chorus Day on Sunday. To celebrate this event, a short…

On 14th February most of the boardwalk was destroyed overnight in a devastating arson attack, followed just over a month later by the deliberate burning of a second…

There are signs of summer aplenty, with two chiffchaffs singing on the 17th, two reed buntings (not a long-distance migrant, but only a summer visitor to Hambrook) on…

The kissing gate leading into the boardwalk field from the gap in the old railway embankment was vandalised by our cattle last summer. At the time this wasn’t…

On 5th March a valiant team of about a dozen volunteers from the Kentish Stour Countryside Partnership (KSCP) spent a whole day in pouring rain (33mm fell on…

Moved by the loss of the boardwalk, and eager to help protect the treasured marshes and the meadows of Hambrook, musicians, poets and performers from Canterbury and beyond…

It is with great sadness that we have to report the destruction by arson on 19th March of the small pond-dipping platform in a corner of the field,…

Most of the signs are that spring is on the way, with the number of wintering tufted ducks on Tonford Lake declining to seven on the 24th. Some…

A generous local resident has paid for 18 larger trees to be planted. We agreed that a good place for them would be between the Wincheap footbridge and…