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Oughtonhead Common Leaflet Local Nature Reserve Icknield Ways and the Chilterns. the and Ways Icknield Local Nature Reserve Contact CMS for more information more for CMS Contact Footpath links with Hambridge and Hambridge with links Footpath Supported by Supported for wheelchair users and the less mobile. less the and users wheelchair for Meet like-minded people like-minded Meet • walks. Extensive surfaced paths suitable paths surfaced Extensive walks. Learn new skills skills new Learn • www.hertsdirect.org/CMS Tel: 01462 459395 01462 Tel: www.hertsdirect.org/CMS Enjoy a choice of River and Commons and River of choice a Enjoy Help maintain & improve the nature reserve reserve nature the improve & maintain Help • environment. For more information contact us at: at: us contact information more For environment. Why Volunteer? Why communities in Hertfordshire to help them care for and enjoy the enjoy and for care them help to Hertfordshire in communities The Countryside Management Service (CMS) works with works (CMS) Service Management Countryside The 01462 474000 01462 Tel: www.north-herts.gov.uk protection of the environment. Contact us at: us Contact environment. the of protection to balance the need for sustainable development with the with development sustainable for need the balance to managed by North Hertfordshire District Council. The Council seeks Council The Council. District Hertfordshire North by managed Oughtonhead Common Local Nature Reserve is owned and owned is Reserve Nature Local Common Oughtonhead Traveline on 0871 200 2233 or www.intalink.org.uk or 2233 200 0871 on Traveline and Burford Way/Swinburne Ave. For travel details contact Intalink contact details travel For Ave. Way/Swinburne Burford and By Public Transport: Public By Nearest bus stops are on Bedford Rd Bedford on are stops bus Nearest Path clearance Path • the site via Redhill Rd/Oughtonhead Lane but parking is limited. is parking but Lane Rd/Oughtonhead Redhill via site the Gate and seat installation seat and Gate • at Swinburne Ave playing fields car park. Access also available to available also Access park. car fields playing Ave Swinburne at Burford Way which runs into Swinburne Ave. Parking is available is Parking Ave. Swinburne into runs which Way Burford Wet ditch and river bank maintenance bank river and ditch Wet • Bedford. Approximately 1 mile from the town centre turn left into left turn centre town the from mile 1 Approximately Bedford. Hedgelaying and hedgerow planting planting hedgerow and Hedgelaying • By Road: By From the centre of Hitchin follow the A600 towards A600 the follow Hitchin of centre the From and add to diversity of habitat of diversity to add and Produced byFitzpatrickWoolmerDesign-01634711771 Coppicing scrub to encourage re-growth encourage to scrub Coppicing • 0.5 miles (approx) miles 0.5 2 A 0 5 6 0 6 5 5 To Luton To A 6 tasks includes: tasks B Stevenage O F F To A1(M) & A1(M) To L and make it welcoming for visitors. Typical management Typical visitors. for welcoming it make and E Y 2 R A D O Bus Stop Bus 0 = 6 in the best condition, attract a diversity of wildlife wildlife of diversity a attract condition, best the in A P Car Park Car D A O R N O T Key R I regularly to carry out conservation tasks to: keep the site site the keep to: tasks conservation out carry to regularly P 2 miles of the centre of Hitchin of centre the of miles 2 D Friends of Oughtonhead Common Oughtonhead of Friends The get together get REDHILL ROAD REDHILL A 5 A 5 5 0 5 O SWINBURNE AVENUE AVENUE SWINBURNE 6 B R ancient grazing Common within Common grazing ancient Volunteering Opportunities: Volunteering A D • • Hitchin • 5 R 0 5 • P O To Barton To D F • A Unwind in the tranquillity of this of tranquillity the in Unwind B D U O R F R E O R D B W N A Y Common O W T E = S T R M I I L L Oughtonhead L P A N E 0 HITCHIN 0 • Ickleford • 6 A • Pirton • Common N To Bedford To Oughtonhead How to get there get to How Oughtonhead Common HITCHIN Welcome to Oughtonhead Common The Reed and Sedge Beds: These are permanently wet Hedgerows and Bushes: Mainly around Local Nature Reserve. areas, except in the driest of summers. Frogs may start the edge of the Common, these provide mating as early as February but by March frog spawn and important food and shelter The site, to the west of Hitchin (see directions map), hatched tadpoles will be present. In summer they are alive for wildlife. In spring comprises the Grazing Common and the River Oughton with bird activity with Reed and Sedge Warblers Blackthorn, Hawthorn and running along its northern edge. nesting here. Elder provide a profusion of • A surfaced path follows the river and provides white blossom to be the River Walk. Wet Grassland and Wet Ditches: followed by late summer • The Commons Walk follows a grassy path around the These wet areas are what most of and autumn fruit. edge of the Common (see centre map page for full the Common used to be like. Male Orange Tip Along with Buckthorn description of these walks). Plants, like the delicate Ladies and Ivy berries, these attract many winter birds to the Ladies Smock Smock flowering in early spring What you might see in different parts of the site: Common including Fieldfare and Redwing. In early spring, and the Southern Marsh Orchid flowering in early summer, bright yellow Lesser Celandine flowers under the The River: The clear waters prefer these wetter areas. In summer bare bushes taking arise from chalk springs you may see various species of advantage of plentiful running out of the Chiltern Dragonfly and Damselfly and the sunlight. Spring butterflies Hills to the west. The river has colourful Burnet Moth which include Orange Tip, the yellow a rich plant community which Water Crowfoot often feeds on the flowers of Brimstone and Speckled Wood thrives in the pure water. Summer Marsh Thistle. Throughout which prefers the dappled shade flowering and one of the most attractive is the year you should see English around the Common’s edges. Stream Water Crowfoot, a relative of Longhorn cattle grazing in Speckled Wood the buttercup. Woven fences have the grassland. Woodland: Trees around the site and Burnet Moth been erected in some places woodland to the north of the river are along the river bank to protect Dry Grassland: In winter, large flocks of Finches feed on seed home to many birds. In early spring these plants, which can easily in the grassland and adjacent farmland. In summer, the Chiffchaff, a bird that sings its be damaged by dogs. At any wildflowers attract many grassland species of butterfly such name, will be heard setting up its time of the year, if you are as Meadow Brown and Ringlet and you may hear a Green territory and Great Spotted quiet, you may see a flash of Woodpecker with its unmistakable “yaffle”. Woodpecker can often be seen or turquoise as a Kingfisher heard in the tops of trees darts by. Photos courtesy of Terry Cavner, Gert Ellstrom, drumming for insects. Kingfisher Phil Lumley, Nick Upton and N. Herts Museum Service. Great Spotted Woodpecker Local Nature Reserve Icknield Ways and the Chilterns. the and Ways Icknield Local Nature Reserve Contact CMS for more information more for CMS Contact Footpath links with Hambridge and Hambridge with links Footpath Supported by Supported for wheelchair users and the less mobile. less the and users wheelchair for Meet like-minded people like-minded Meet • walks. Extensive surfaced paths suitable paths surfaced Extensive walks. Learn new skills skills new Learn • www.hertsdirect.org/CMS Tel: 01462 459395 01462 Tel: www.hertsdirect.org/CMS Enjoy a choice of River and Commons and River of choice a Enjoy Help maintain & improve the nature reserve reserve nature the improve & maintain Help • environment. For more information contact us at: at: us contact information more For environment. Why Volunteer? Why communities in Hertfordshire to help them care for and enjoy the enjoy and for care them help to Hertfordshire in communities The Countryside Management Service (CMS) works with works (CMS) Service Management Countryside The 01462 474000 01462 Tel: www.north-herts.gov.uk protection of the environment. Contact us at: us Contact environment. the of protection to balance the need for sustainable development with the with development sustainable for need the balance to managed by North Hertfordshire District Council. The Council seeks Council The Council. District Hertfordshire North by managed Oughtonhead Common Local Nature Reserve is owned and owned is Reserve Nature Local Common Oughtonhead Traveline on 0871 200 2233 or www.intalink.org.uk or 2233 200 0871 on Traveline and Burford Way/Swinburne Ave. For travel details contact Intalink contact details travel For Ave. Way/Swinburne Burford and By Public Transport: Public By Nearest bus stops are on Bedford Rd Bedford on are stops bus Nearest Path clearance Path • the site via Redhill Rd/Oughtonhead Lane but parking is limited. is parking but Lane Rd/Oughtonhead Redhill via site the Gate and seat installation seat and Gate • at Swinburne Ave playing fields car park. Access also available to available also Access park. car fields playing Ave Swinburne at Burford Way which runs into Swinburne Ave. Parking is available is Parking Ave. Swinburne into runs which Way Burford Wet ditch and river bank maintenance bank river and ditch Wet • Bedford. Approximately 1 mile from the town centre turn left into left turn centre town the from mile 1 Approximately Bedford. Hedgelaying and hedgerow planting planting hedgerow and Hedgelaying • By Road: By From the centre of Hitchin follow the A600 towards A600 the follow Hitchin of centre the From and add to diversity of habitat of diversity to add and Produced byFitzpatrickWoolmerDesign-01634711771 Coppicing scrub to encourage re-growth encourage to scrub Coppicing • 0.5 miles (approx) miles 0.5 2 A 0 5 6 0 6 5 5 To Luton To A 6 tasks includes: tasks B Stevenage O F F To A1(M) & A1(M) To L and make it welcoming for visitors.
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