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Owned in common, free fun for all

April 28, 2017
by Lucy Galvin
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  This time four years ago, Train Wood was up for sale by Norfolk County Council – on an auction list – and its future looked bleak. But a hard fought campaign and the determination of the many who love Norwich’s wonderful secret riverbank woodland – and t
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First survey strikes buttercup gold

April 23, 2017
by Lucy Galvin
BioBlitz, biodiversity, community woodland, Norwich, Train Wood, urban nature
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Did you know there were 20 different kinds of buttercup? Me neither. But thanks to Norfolk Wildlife Trust’s Gemma Walker, the Train Wood plant hunters do now. On Sunday morning she came out bright and early with us on our first ever plant survey. We bumped into all sorts of peop
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Exciting times and excavations of railway history

April 17, 2017
by Lucy Galvin
community woodland, railway heritage
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John Batley of Friends Of Norwich City Station with an update on work to explore the railway heritage of the site… We were back on site this weekend with superb progress on the end of the LNER engine shed. By future removal of the earth/spoil/dredge pile at the end of the shed (
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Trains, trees, birds and bees – our first ever BioBlitz

April 07, 2017
by Lucy Galvin
BioBlitz, community woodland, nature, urban nature, woodland
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It was destroyed by bombs in the war. But now we’re planning to make Train Wood the target of a different kind of blitz. The wood is to be the focus of attention by an army of citizen scientists and experts in nature and railway history later this spring. We’ve teamed up w
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