Friends of Gedling House Woods (schools pack)

Here is a (virtual) walk through a wood on the north-east periphery of Gedling Village. These woods & meadows are well looked after by local residents, and they try to help, so here is a taster of what you may see during your journey:–

Text (for Translators):– > Beautiful things to see today
> Small white wood anemones are in flower in the woods. You can see them as you look among the trees from the bottom path of the woods just above the first meadow (the meadow nearest to Wood Lane).

Overhanging the second meadow, but growing in the woods, is an elm tree which has a lovely shade of light green ‘foliage’. On close inspection you can see that what look to be leaves are in fact clusters of seeds.

The third or top meadow has some cowslips and primroses. These can also be seen in the glade (by the log seat) and at the side of pathways throughout the woods. Notice also purple, mauve and white violets and bright yellow celandines.

The hedgerow includes blackthorn bushes with white flowers. These flowers will eventually form sloes. You cannot make jam or chutneys with sloes, as they are very bitter, but they can be used to flavour gin.

The bluebells are coming into flower and there is a particularly good display in the woodland furthest away from Wood Lane. English bluebells look delicate, have drooping bells and are fragrant. The Spanish bluebells have strong stems, the flowers are more erect and they have no perfume. There are also wood anemones in this area.
Enjoy your walk!

The walk was made at about 3pm on Wednesday, 19 April 2017. Try to imagine sunshine & lots & lots of birdsong. It is only a short walk, really. Here is one of the maps of the location. We shall be walking to the right (maybe later some folks will picture some of the other routes):–

Here is the kissing gate to get into the walk. Click the link below, then either press the start button (▶) for auto-change (a little quick, maybe?) or keep pressing the right chevron (>) at top of page and you can pass along the entire walk. Have fun!

Press here to load the start of the Walk through the Woods

Extra Walk:

Wednesday 26 April 2017:
Here is another, longer, walk that starts near the end of the previous walk and, at first, returns in the reverse direction then turns to the right and continues close to the meadows, eventually returning near to the start of the first walk. There’s also a little surprise partway through (3 frames) with a couple of rabbits frolicking on the path (one of them is suicidally bold & remains in view until the last minute, whilst the other shows normal levels of caution):–

Press here to load the start of Walk2 through the Woods

Update 3 July 2022

Mapillary has changed it’s download URLs & therefore all links within my diaries that use photos stored in Mapillary are broken. I’m slowly going through to update them. The new URLs are terrifyingly long, but show OK on my screen (and I hope also on yours).