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Path maintenance on the Middlewood Way

April 27, 2014 by Julian

Today we volunteers were out on the Middlewood Way, along with Ed of the Cheshire East Rangers, to carry out some path maintenance.  The task was to remove from the surface of the path some of the grass which has encroached over the past fifteen years or so.  This was on the side of the Way used by walkers and cyclists (horses use the other side), and we had some appreciative passers-by who were able to try out our newly widened path!  Despite the forecast of a rainy afternoon, we had fine sunshine weather all day and – even better – the grass adjacent to the stretch of path on which we were working was a mass of cowslips.  We also had a chance to see the barley and poppy meadow that the Rangers have prepared as part of the First World War commemorations – the meadow ought to be worth coming to see in a couple of months’ time.

Widening the path
Widening the path
Ed and the cowslips
Ed and the cowslips
The barley and poppy meadow
The barley and poppy meadow
The barley and poppy meadow
The barley and poppy meadow
The widened path and cowslips
The widened path and cowslips
Cowslips and SACV volunteers at work
Cowslips and SACV volunteers at work
Widening the path
Widening the path
Widening the path
Widening the path
A stretch of widened path
A stretch of widened path

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