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Tiggywinkles Wildlife Hospital a Chiltern Hero Summer Walks ISSUE 224 • SUMMER 2017 www.chilternsociety.org.uk • CHILTERN SOCIETY MAGAZINE Tiggywinkles wildlife hospital A Chiltern hero Summer walks HERITAGE • CONSERVATION • ENVIRONMENT • WILDLIFE • LEISURE ISSUE 224 • SUMMER 2017 www.chilternsociety.org.uk • CHILTERN SOCIETY MAGAZINE In this Tiggywinkles wildlife hospital A Chiltern hero Summer walks HERITAGE • CONSERVATION • ENVIRONMENT • WILDLIFE • LEISURE Juvenile muntjac with bandaged leg issue (Photo: Tiggywinkles) NEWS & VIEWS 3 EDITOR 5 4 FROM THE CHAIRMAN FOOD AND 4 SOCIETY GIN ANNOUNCED DRINK 15 NEWS IN BRIEF WALKS Building Design Awards, Bucks Open Studios 17 THE BADGER – VILLAIN OR VICTIM? 18 MEET OUR NEW TRUSTEES 18 HS2 – WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? 19 NEW CHILTERN WAY GUIDEBOOK 20 AN INSPIRATION TO ALL Beekeeping demo at Raan’s Farm Peter Brown meets Peter the Pilgrim 24 CARE FARMING Introducing a unique local social enterprise 6-7 25 INSPIRATIONAL GARDENS 35 CYCLE FOR THE SAMARITANS TIGGYWINKLES HERITAGE 12 STUDHAM John Hockey explores another Chiltern village 21 STORYTELLER’S SOURCES REVEALED At the Roald Dahl Museum 26 A CHILTERN HERO Alison Beck remembers an ancestor’s self-sacrifice An unusual patient CONSERVATION SPECIAL 28 SOCIETY CONSERVATION NEWS MEMBER OFFERS 19 ENVIRONMENT see page 40 NEW CHILTERN 14 DELIVERING MORE HOMES WAY GUIDE But at what cost, asks Mike Chadwick of the Planning Group 30 BUILDING A GREEN FUTURE Could Chesham lead the way, asks Michila Critchley 38 BREXIT STRATEGY Gill Kent hopes for more even-handed farming policies 39 DENDRO DAY The Bucks Tree Club enjoys a great Hedsor Tower start to 2017 2 Chiltern 224 Early birds From the Editor Richard Bradbury It was a few minutes after 6am on a still morning in early spring. The chill in the air was clearing my sleepy head. I was deep in the woods on the Ashridge Estate, standing in silence listening to the birds. They were certainly in fine voice. WILDLIFE ‘Hear that? Definitely a nuthatch,’ said our guide, my namesake Richard. I wondered 6 ANIMAL WELFARE 24/7 Bob Stuart visits Tiggywinkles at his ability to distinguish one trill from another. He explained that although the 16 OBJECT OF WONDER dawn chorus, which had started some time George Stebbing-Allen waxes philosophical about Vanessa atalanta before, was more spectacular, the resulting cacophony made it much harder to identify 36 JUST BEE CAUSE the individual birds contributing to it. Local brewer backs Friends of the Our small group, who’d been brought Earth campaign together by the Society’s walks designer 37 ELUSIVE EMPEROR FOUND IN BUCKS! Andrew Clark, wandered slowly through the woods, pausing regularly to listen when LEISURE Richard’s keen ear tuned into yet another different call. It soon became clear that, Long-tailed tit (Photo: Tom Stevenson) 5 LAND OF MEAT AND HONEY in terms of our knowledge of the subject, Walkers enjoy a taste of the we were a mixed bunch, from Richard Richard was able to fix him in the sights of Chess Valley and one or two others who had a high a powerful telescope, which gave several of 8 CHECKENDON WALK level of expertise, to those, like me, who us the chance to have a good look at this 10 SOCIETY EVENTS & ACTIVITIES could at best be described as ‘enthusiasts’. magnificent bird. Summer 2017 Consequently it was fascinating to listen to In the two hours or so that we spent at the exchanges between people who knew Ashridge the list of birds we encountered 22 FRINGE BENEFITS much more than I did. I found it particularly grew considerably, and included blackcaps, The work of PhotoGroup member Clive Ormonde helpful when a sound was described in tree creepers, great spotted woodpeckers, layman’s terms, such as Andrew likening the long-tailed tits and what was proclaimed the 23 PUZZLE PICTURE call of a great tit to a bicycle pump inflating ‘bird of the day’, a pair of willow warblers, as 27 THE MILK CART BOADICEA a tyre. I hope I’ll remember some of the well as several other species I’m sure most A heart-warming reminiscence things I learned, not only about how to spot of us see in our gardens on a daily basis, like from WWII birds from the way they look or sound, but robins and blackbirds. Eventually, as joggers 32 CHESS VALLEY WALK also from their movements and the location and dog walkers started to join us on the in which I see them. woodland paths, we headed to the National 34 PEACEFUL PEDALLING In the northeast Chilterns, with the As the sky brightened we began to rely Trust café for a well-earned breakfast. Cycle Group on our eyes as much as our ears. Again the I can’t recall when I was last out walking regular bird watchers had the edge. Not so early in the morning. To be frank, I’m 35 FLATTEN THE CHILTERNS only did they have better binoculars, they more of a night owl; but there’s something On an e-bike could train them more rapidly on what, to magical and restorative about that time of 40 MEMBER OFFERS the naked eye, were black specks flitting the day, especially when you experience it 42 WALKS PROGRAMME about 20 or more yards away. By the time in a setting that allows you to share it with I’d located the relevant branch – or even the the natural world. I realised afterwards that right tree – the little varmints had vanished. for a brief period all my petty day-to-day A wonderful exception, however, was a song concerns and worries about the state of scan here for thrush, who obligingly sat on the same limb international politics had been forgotten. www.chilternsociety.org.uk for several minutes, singing his heart out. I’m so glad I went. DEADLINES REPRODUCTION OF IMAGES It is not possible to guarantee that items received after The photographs in this magazine must not be the deadline will be included in the next issue, unless a reproduced elsewhere, except with the express prior arrangement has been made with the Editor. permission of the photographer via the Editor. If you do not wish your photographs to be used in other SENDING COPY AND PHOTOGRAPHS Published quarterly by The Chiltern Society Society publications, please make this clear when you Please email text as Word attachments. Pictures should send them. EDITOR: Richard Bradbury • 01494 793049 be sent as jpg attachments. High resolution images Email: [email protected] are required for publication, although low resolution The Society does not necessarily accept images can be sent as samples in the first instance, if responsibility for the views of contributors or the ADVERTISING: Sophie Elkan claims of the advertisers. Email: [email protected] preferred. Please indicate the quality of images sent, entitle your pictures and delete any numbers. DESIGN & TYPESET: Clickdraw • 01525 374270 PRINT: Hartgraph • Amersham on materials DEADLINE FOR ISSUE 225 (SEPTEMBER 2017) produced by environmentally friendly processes. Items to the Editor by: Monday 26 June • Published: Saturday 26 August email: [email protected] 3 Progress report From the Chairman David Harris I’m pleased to announce the co-option of two new trustees, Bob Cartwright and Peter Duxbury. Bob will be getting involved with Gin’s a conservation on our sites and is seeking to develop a project based on the commons of the Chilterns. Peter’s taking up the role of Volunteer Co-ordinator and is helping Gavin Johnson, our tonic! Head of Conservation & Development, on the forthcoming Landscape Project – Health and Says Victoria Blane, Wellbeing, as well as supporting our health & safety regime. I’m confident that between them Head of Marketing they’ll enable the Society to make great strides in these areas. Read more and Membership about them on p 18. We’re thrilled to announce an exciting We’ve found it very difficult to replace Work continues in support of new collaboration with local gin Christine Breden, who used to be a the Chilterns Conservation Board’s distillery Wayfarers in Beaconsfield. trustee and for many years ran our Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) bids Wayfarers have offered to distil our Central Conservation Group, meeting regarding Chilterns Hillforts and very own Chiltern Society seasonal on Saturday mornings and focusing on Chilterns Landscape. You’ll be hearing gin. maintaining ponds. Not only did she much more about these in the months lead, she also stored the tools for the to come. In addition we’re progressing What makes this gin extra special is Group. Consequently we’re not only with the development of our own that the combination of botanicals looking for a new leader, we’re also Education Project to involve schools incorporated into it have been desperate to find an additional storage in the countryside. If your local school sustainably sourced from wild plants facility in the central Chilterns area. would like to work with us on this found in the Chilterns. This means If you can help, or think you know of do get in touch. We’re hoping that that when you try it, you really someone who could, do get in touch. following a successful pilot, this will will be experiencing a taste of the We’ve recently embarked on a major also be the subject of a grant proposal Chilterns! What’s more, they’ve very fundraising and membership campaign, to the HLF so that the project can be generously agreed to donate profits leafleting areas around proposed new extended throughout the Chilterns. from the sale of the gin directly to us – developments. Our aim is to raise With regard to HS2, when all so when you buy it, you’ll be investing sufficient funds to pay for a fixed-term appears lost, they appear to have got in the preservation of the Chilterns professional planner, to supplement themselves in a contractual muddle, countryside.
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