KEY: Circular route Public footpath Byway Park entrances Parking Information point Footbridge Toilets Café Play area The Cut Countryside Corridor KEY: Circular route Public footpath Byway Park entrances B Parking in We ) f s 5 ie i t E Information point n 9 ld d L a 0 FB ne R Footbridge 3 o A a ( Toilets d Café ( B 3 Play area h Garth Pond s Community 0 a 1 l p Orchard 8 Tinker’s Copse S ) e i n Th e e i r Larks Hill G l l e e w id e est R Harv N ) i Garth Meadows er iv Jock’s Copse i (r ut C FB e Th i B FB o How to get there l t o Jock’s Lane i FB By bus – the nearest bus stop for n Piggy Wood s Recreation Ground Jocks Lane is at Moordale Avenue e L v i a Anneforde Place on Binfield Road. The nearest stop r n D e for Larks Hill is at Newport Drive. t r o ne By car – Jocks Lane car park, p k’s La w Joc e B Jocks Lane, Binfield, RG12 2BH. N i n Larks Hill car park, off Harvest f d i e a l Ride, Warfield d o N (grid reference: SU 87052 70812) R R o d W l a On foot/cycle –from Bracknell, e d i f walk north on Quelm Lane and r a E cross Harvest Ride, turn right into W S Larks Hill. See map for alternative entrances. © Crown copyright and database rights 2015 Ordnance Survey 100019488 The Cut Countryside Corridor The Three Copses – Jock’s, Temple and Tinker’s Explore bluebell woodlands and wildflower meadows These closely linked areas, located in through a range of walks around The Cut river from Binfield are valued as wildlife habitats and Jock’s Lane in Binfield to Newell Green in Warfield. Photo © Rob Solomon places for a quiet stroll. The woodland is mainly oak and hazel with a variety of Photo © Marie-Anne Phillips Facilities woodland flowers, such as wood anemones * *Disabled access for Larks Hill and bluebells. All 3 copses used to be loop and Jock’s Lane. set in an open rural farmland landscape. House building in the 1990s enclosed the woodland, which had been derelict and The Cut unmanaged for quite some time. An old air Rising in North Ascot, The Cut flows Cowslip, Primula veris strip prior to 1930s ran between Jock’s and for around 14 miles (23 km) through Tinker’s Copse. Winkfield, Warfield and Binfield before The name ‘Jock’ refers to a Scottish heading northeast to Bray, to join the Swift, vagrant who frequented the copse in the River Thames. © Fitzpatrick Woolmer Apus apus early 1800s (per R Mosses). Temple Copse Wild Service Tree, Photo © Rob Solomon is classified as Ancient Woodland, which Larks Hill Sorbus torminalis Named after the skylark, this public Honey bees on apple blossom (left). Garth Meadows means that it has been wooded for at least open space contains grazed pasture, Ripening pears (right). On a clear day there are fine views looking 400 years. arable fields and a community orchard. south across the meadows and the skyline Traditional management practices are A sarsen (sandstone block) boulder of Bracknell town centre. Cattle are grazed used to keep the orchard healthy and known as The Quelm Stone is an in the meadow during summer to slow Did you know…? the nearby hive is looked after by a local unusual feature that can be found down the growth of grass and scrub. This Garth Meadows is thought to be bee-keeper. near the path running to the west of encourages a diversity of wildflowers like named after Thomas Colleton Garth the site. ‘Quelm’ is derived from the Skylark, Alauda arvensis cowslip, meadow vetchling and ragged of Haines Hill, who was Master of Two paddocks are grazed on rotation robin. In turn, this attracts butterflies, bees Bracknell’s local fox hunt from 1852 with cattle during summer and dogs can old English word ‘cwelm’ (a spring or a stream). Quelm also means ‘to kill’ - and farmland birds such as linnets and to 1902 and who had ‘The Garth’ be walked in the alternative field or kept kestrels. The two paddocks are grazed on Hunt named in his honour. on a lead. suggesting the nearby presence of a hanging place or gibbet. It is believed rotation with cattle during summer and by some that it served as a former dogs can be walked in the alternative field Bullfinch, Tinker’s Copse parish boundary marker. Larks Hill or kept on a lead. Pyrrhula pyrrhula Garth Meadows Photo © Marie-Anne Phillips Photo © Rose Wicks.