Category: Tipton’s Croft

We used some of the spoil from the lake to improve the drainage at one end of the field, with a new ditch and wildflower meadow seeding. Here’s before, during and after.

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Some work on improving the drainage in one part of the field using muck dug out of the old pond.

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A brief flight up through a break in the low cloud above the field.

A frozen owl and a Garden Orb-Weaver in its web.

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New gates, fences, paths. And no more rusty metal.

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In March 2016 we took ownership of the field and started down a long road of restoration with the aim creating a natural wildlife haven based on a traditional English meadow.

Intensive farming can create a desert-like landscape almost devoid of wildlife. Fortunately the field was soon afterwards abandoned to nature.

Showing the croft (No. 318), with almost exactly the same boundaries as today. Occupied by a Mr Richard Tipton, hence ‘Tipton’s Croft’.

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