2nd and 3rd March 2021: the new interpretation panels in Adel Woods

Installing the interpretation panel by the side of the path down to the Slabbering Baby

As part of the Wilderness on Your Doorstep project in the Meanwood Valley, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, Adel Woods was allocated three interpretation panels to be sited by the path into the woods from Buckstone Road, on Adel Moor and on Crag Lane near Adel Crag.

After a long delay due to covid 19, they have at last been installed by David Preston and Louise and Emma of the Parks and Countryside ranger team.

On Tuesday, 2nd March, they installed the panel on the path from Buckstone Road(see pictures above) and the panel on Adel Moor (see pictures below).

Installing the interpretation panel on Adel Moor.

They installed the final panel on Crag Lane on Wednesday 3rd March.

The interpretation panel on Crag Lane, near Adel Crag.

They look great! So thank you to everyone involved in applying for the grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, to Dan Malster who organised the design of the panels, to Steve Joul who assisted in clearing the locations for them, and to David, Louise and Emma who installed them – and of course to everyone else who played a part in the long journey from imagining their existence to their installation.

I should say that the lottery funding also covered the cost of installing an interpretation board at Adel Whin on Eccup Lane. Adel Whin isn’t part of the area looked after by FOAW but here is a picture of David installing the panel.