The Environment

Jubilee Wood maintenance...

Plans and associated documents can be viewed in advance of the meeting on North Northamptonshire’s website, this is a Waste and Minerals Application:...

A case of avian flu has been confirmed at Hemington. As a result Huntingdonshire District Council have advised that Great Gidding is in...

A few photos taken during the winter lockdown. The weather and scenery kind of convey the current mood I think!(Paul Crank)...

Two caring Great Gidding residents have been supporting the local hedgehog hospital and have just released two hedgehogs into one of their gardens....

The Jubilee wood has been a great place to visit during the long days of CV19 lock down and it will continue to...

It’s been the driest, hottest April on record which has been good news in some ways as we struggle to cope with the...

Over the last few days several village residents have come together to facilitate the parish wide litter pick. Its disapointing to have to...

The July Knowledge Share – Sunday 14th from 2.30pm ‘Nature & Well Being’ – “A Journey through the senses” With an opportunity to...

April ‘April showers bring May flowers’ Let’s hope that this isn’t strictly true or we won’t be seeing so many Jubilee Wood wild...

February in Jubilee Wood   John Clare loved ‘the youth of each green thing: The grass, the trees, the bushes and the moss’,...

Spring Dragonflies & Damselflies at Jubilee Wood in 2018 During a couple of visits to the Jubilee Wood pond in May 2018, five...

19/12/18 Back Lane – Great Gidding Fly tipping, one of the scourges of modern day rural living where the less gifted feel a...

October can be an unpredictable month weather wise, and this year we’ve already seen gales, exceptionally high temperatures and early on, rainfall of...

Annual Maintenance Blitz The usual maintenance tasks, hedge trimming, lopping and strimming in the Jubilee Wood. We do this to keep the open...

Jubilee Wood April was quite a month of extremes in terms of weather, but nature has a way of forging on regardless whilst...

This is an interactive exercise for digital camera users, a chance to get your photograph on the village website.   Along the eastern...

As the summer seems to have gone on its own holiday we had better consider the autumn harvest of fruit and specifically apples....

Well we are now into the spring equinox & many of us will be enticed into the countryside by the sheer pleasure it...

A photographic essay of how Chapel End pond was reclaimed back to an attractive environmental pond  from being an unloved, overgrown shallow  pit....

Title: Wassail Location: The Jubilee Wood, Great Gidding Start Time: 19:30 Date: Thursday 16th February 2017 Time we had another Pagan adventure in...

The dividing hedge between the wood and the allotments has recently been expertly laid in the traditional Midlands style. The hedge being mainly...

An excellent turnout for the annual trim and tidy of the pathways and hedges around the Jubilee Wood. Another is planned for next...

The first cycling Tour Of Cambridgeshire took place in June 2015 The route on public roads that were closed specifically for the race...

A selection of photographs detailing the demolition and the development of Top Farm Having reached the end of a useful life as a...

Pruning and litter purge in the Jubilee Wood 23rd January Winter maintenance is required in the wood to keep it visitor friendly and...

Paul, who runs Catalyst Video Services based in Great Gidding, spent the evening of July 23rd videoing the rapeseed harvest on Michael Trolove’s...

For three consecutive  Saturday mornings in November a team of volunteers have been trimming the sides of the main path in the Jubilee...

2014 has seen an apparent successful breeding season for Barn Owls in the Gidding Parish. At one location I tried to film some...

Another very successful History Day was held at Great Gidding Village Hall on the 18th of October. Lots of visitors attended, some bringing...