Sunday, 16th February 2025: litterpicking and path clearing

Despite it being a rather cold and damp morning, we had an amazing turn out of twelve Friends (including a toddler) and a spaniel!

Nine of us chose to do a litterpick and two of us to do some path clearing.

The litterpickers

The litterpickers split into two teams. One team picked up litter along Crag Lane, along the track to the cricket pavilion, and then along Buckstone Road and across the Village Green.

The other team focused on the Village Green, the area around the edge of the Village Green, and the playground area.

Between them they picked up nine bags of litter. A fantastic achievement.

Path clearing

We two path clearers made our way along Crag Lane and onto the “diagonal” path on the right, just before Old Leo’s carpark. A short way up this path, a tree had fallen and although part of it had been cleared from the path, it was still making the path very narrow.

Having cleared away the many branches, we made our way further up the path and trimmed back a holly bush which was growing over the path.

We then made our way westwards along the path towards the former rugby field and tackled another large tree which had fallen across the path.

The trunk of the tree was too big for us to tackle, but we were able to clear away many of the branches.

Finally, we made our way down to Crag Lane, and towards the picnic area. Part way along we cleared away the branches of another fallen tree.

Whilst on Crag Lane we took the opportunity to have a look at some improvement work which Leeds City Council is carrying out to its surface.

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Friends of Adel Woods were formed in 2009 to help maintain Adel Woods and encourage people to enjoy them. We meet one weekend morning a month to carry out various jobs or ”work parties”, and we also put on educational events such as bat walks, fungal forays and birdsong walks.

We are a very friendly group and welcome new members who want to help preserve our special woods, enjoy fresh air and exercise in the woods, and make new friends. If you would like to take part in our activities, keep an eye on our Home Page and come along to one of our work parties.

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