Lamplighter’s Marsh
Project Category: Informal community group
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Our Story
This was a large docks railway sidings and landscaped rubbish tip that was abandoned about 30 years ago and had become overgrown with scrub. After a long fight it was designated a Local Nature Reserve (LNR) in late 2017. Working with Bristol City Council Parks department, we have opened it up and surveys have found nationally scarce lichen. We run free expert-led walks in the warmer months and, scrub clearance from October to March. This year we produced a virtual trail in the LNR for sixty Keystage 2 school children to see in their classrooms, before walking the trail. Afterwards they took family members on the trail to show them what they had learnt. We built a bee bank by hand from 13 tonnes of material. We hosted walks for the Being Human national festival and, ecology MSc postgrad students to survey this unusual edgeland.
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