by Gavin | Oct 26, 2024 | Environment, News
The Astbury Mere Country Park has recently been awarded the Community Woodland Gold Award “Community Woodland of the Year” This award encourages and rewards woodland projects that benefit communitiesand is looking for woodland which has been established and managed...
by Gavin | Jul 25, 2024 | Environment, News
A large part of the work undertaken by the Astbury Mere Trust is managing the Park’s woodlands, ensuring it is a safe environment for visitors. The trustees would like to explain some of the tree felling in the park a number of visitors have noticed. Ash trees...
by Gavin | Apr 24, 2022 | Environment, News
What could be nicer than to be taken for a free ride around Astbury Mere in a rickshaw with somebody else doing all the work. All you have to do is admire the view and feel the wind in your hair. Maybe stop for a hot drink, maybe see some friends for a chat. All this...
by Gavin | Jul 5, 2021 | Environment
Answer : The female lays eggs between late April and early May. Both sexes incubate the eggs, which hatch after 35-41 days. The young birds, or cygnets, sometimes ride on their parents’ backs and remain with the adult birds for four or five months. Cygnets...
by Gavin | Jul 5, 2021 | Environment
Margaret, one of our trustees, took a look around the park during the spring. These is what she saw: “During lockdown, we’ve all seen more closely the gradual changing of the seasons with the first tentative snowdrops, the catkins and the pussy willow. The...
by Cat2020 | Jan 10, 2021 | Environment, News
The outbreak of COVID-19 has turned many people’s world’s upside down, social distancing, furlough, homeschooling, working from home etc are all terms and practises we have had to get used to over the last year! But it is as important as ever that we do...
