Saturday 29th April 2017 10:30am SU 2370 6562 Wednesday 7th June 2017 10:30am Saturday 24th June 2017 10:30am Savernake Forest Bishopstone Down and Nightingale Wood BSBI Atlas Recording Day Tidcombe Area SU25/35 Leader: Martin Buckland Leader: Richard Aisbitt Organiser: Sharon Pilkington A gentle amble along the many tracks of Savernake to get A two part day visiting chalk downland in the morning, with Join us for another of our popular recording days to our 2017 botany interests flowing. Come and see what we a planted woodland and Brook Meadow, (with a stream, generate records for the BSBI Atlas 2020 project. This time can find. wet marshy areas and a small lake) in the afternoon. we’re focussing on an interesting but little-recorded area close to Hampshire border. It is a very rural area and there Meet at the entrance to Birch Copse where Three Oak Hill Meet in Bishopstone Village by the pond, SU 245 836, nearest postcode SN6 8PS. Some parking is available will be opportunities to survey chalk downland, farmland, Drive and Grand Avenue meet. Parking is just off the edge ancient woodland and village habitats, among others. of the road. SU 2370 6562. alongside the pond but visitors may need to use local streets. Please park responsibly. Depending on numbers attending, we will split into small The Forestry Commission car park is at SU 206 882 for groups and head off to different sites. All maps, recording Saturday 13th May 2017 10:30am ST 8493 7185 Nightingale Wood in the afternoon. cards and instructions will be provided but if you have a GPS please bring it. Monks Wood and Colerne Park SSSI Meet initially at 10:30am in the public car park off Tidworth Sunday 11th June 2017 10:30am ST 983 906 Leader: Sharon Pilkington Road, Ludgershall A3026 at SU2640 5081. Nearest This SSSI is a large ancient ash woodland on the Jurassic Cloatley Meadows SSSI postcode SP11 9FF limestone of NW Wiltshire. It is at its best in May and we Leader: Martin Buckland (07758 284786) will see many of its specialities including Toothwort, A visit to this Wiltshire Trust reserve on the edge of Sunday 2nd July 2017 10:30am SU 1696 6102 Ramsons, Wood Anemone, Wood Spurge, Pignut and Braydon Forest, comprising hay meadows, pasture, hopefully Green Hellebore. The wood also includes Jones’s Mill hedgerows and copse. Some fields show the undulations limestone grassland and wet grassland habitat and springs of one of the finest examples of ancient ridge-and-furrow in Leaders: Paul Darby and Jane Brown in the adjacent By Brook valley. the north of the county. A much requested repeat visit to this Wiltshire Trust Paths within the wood can be very muddy and steep so From the Malmesbury to Cricklade road (B4040), turn off Reserve. Jones’s Mill is a fen, made up of alder carr, please come prepared. for Hankerton in the village of Charlton. In Hankerton turn ponds and wet grassland. Its peaty soils are fed by natural From Biddestone Village, take a road named Weavern right into Cloatley road, (signed for Cricklade and Minety). springs and the Salisbury Avon flows through its centre. Lane that heads in a south-westerly direction (the The reserve entrance and car park are on left after one From Pewsey centre, take High Street (B3087) towards churchyard will be on your right) for approximately 1 mile mile, about 100 metres after the garage at ST983906. Milton Lilbourne and Burbage. Drive through Pewsey and and park at ST 8493 7185. Nearest postcode SN16 9LQ turn left down Dursden Lane, just before a painted cottage. Cross over railway bridge and reserve entrance is on left close to small parking area. Nearest postcode SN9 5JN Sunday 21st May 2017 10:30am Saturday 17th June 2017 10:30 am Woodborough Hill, near Pewsey Meadows at Mere Sunday 23rd July 2017 11:00am ST 338 224 Leaders: Paul Darby and Jane Brown Leader: Penny Lee Fivehead Arable Fields near Langport, Somerset A walk to Woodborough Hill where it is hoped we will see A new area for the Society to visit. Penny discovered these hundreds of Green-winged Orchids and other chalk wet, unimproved hay meadows whilst recording for the Leader: Sharon Pilkington specialities. Atlas in 2016 and believed it worthy of a visit for us all. An out-of-county meeting to visit a very special arable plant In Woodborough take Church Road heading north; bear left Park in Castle Street car park (free) just west of the George site. Fivehead is a Somerset Wildlife Trust Reserve and at the Church into Church Lane and shortly after left again Inn and Market Cross at ST 8110 3235; nearest postcode Plantlife Important Plant Area and is renowned for its at a thatched cottage. Meet at Woodborough Parish rooms BA12 6JE (B3092). Alternatively park in the Salisbury community of rare arable plants. Highlights of our visit just down on the right. SU 1126 5998. Nearest postcode Street car park on the B3095 at ST 8144 3242; nearest should include Broad-fruited Cornsalad, Shepherd’s- SN9 5PH. postcode BA12 6HB, where loos are available. Walk down needle, Corn Buttercup, Corn Parsley, Slender Tare, Church Street from the Market Cross to the west side of St Spreading Hedge-parsley, Corn Parsley and many others. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael’s Church and meet there opposite the old Vicarage Parking is limited but should be possible with care on the at ST 811 322. verge of Cathanger Lane in the vicinity of the reserve entrance at ST 338 224. NOTE: 11:00am start. Friday 26th May to 31st May 2017 The Burren – Residential Trip -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday 6th August 2017 10:30am SU 262 174 Sunday 17th Sept 2017 10:30am ST 932 875 Lord’s Oak and Penn Common Malmesbury Leaders: Dave Green and Pat Woodruffe Leader: Martin Buckland A trip to the New Forest to examine acid bog and common. A trip around the town and along the Avon should provide a We hope to see Small Fleabane and Pillwort. If there’s time whole range of plants from ruderals to river. we will visit Furzley Common where we should also see Meet at Station Road car park, Old Station Mews. Ivy-leaved Bellflower and Intermediate Bladderwort ST 932 875. Nearest postcode SN16 9JT. Meet at Lords Oak car park just south of Landford Bog (VC11) at SU 262 174. From there it is a very short drive to Penn Common, which is in VC8. Sunday 1st October 2017 10:00am (Morning only) SU237287 Saturday 19th August 2017 10:30am Bentley Wood – Fungus Foray Wiltshire Botanical BSBI Atlas Recording Day. Mere and the Deverills Co-ordinator: Ailsa McKee ST83 WBS has once again been invited to join with the Friends of Organiser: Sharon Pilkington Bentley Wood and the Salisbury & District Natural History Society Society for a fungus outing. The plan is to identify fungi in Our second recording day this year to generate records for the wood and finish by 1pm. Be prepared for uneven the BSBI Atlas 2020 project. ST83 is a very rural and muddy ground and wear sturdy footwear and suitable rather interesting-looking square in South Wiltshire. It is clothes. well-endowed with steep chalk downland (including the spectacular Mere Down and White Sheet Hill) but there will The meeting point is off the East Grimstead to West also be opportunities to look at farmland, rivers and Winterslow road opposite Ben Lane. Drive to the small streams, woodland and urban habitat. Depending on car park at the top of Howe Farm Track, SU237287. numbers attending, we will split into small groups and head off to different sites. All maps, recording cards and Contact details for outings: instructions will be provided but if you have a GPS please bring it. Richard Aisbitt 07745 510456 Martin Buckland 07758 284786 Meet initially in Mere on White Road B3095 near the Fire Jane Brown 07804 857938 Station at ST 817 327. Nearest postcode BA12 6EX. Paul Darby 07919 810458 Dave Green 07900 248992 Saturday 2nd September 2017 10:30am SU 056 714 Penny Lee 07948 336660 Field Meetings 2017 Ailsa McKee 07527 422048 Yatesbury Sharon Pilkington 07801 627449 Leader: Martin Buckland Pat Woodruffe 07966 963537 An area not visited by the Society before but we will Please note that all meetings in this programme encounter old bridleways, waysides and arable. Come and are all day so bring a packed lunch. see what we can find! Part and parcel of our visits includes recording but From the A4 between Calne and Beckhampton take the this should not affect the enjoyment of the meeting For further information, contact road north to Yatesbury. After three quarters of a mile the road bears sharp right however head forward into Noland for anyone. Those meetings solely for recording Martin Buckland Road and meet and park at the row of Poplar trees just to are headed ‘BSBI Atlas Recording Day’ but all are still welcome to attend. Tel: 07758 284786 your left at SU 056 714 Nearest postcode SN11 8YB Email: [email protected] Please be aware that dogs are not permitted at meetings. We welcome members’ friends to our Every effort is made to inform members of risks meetings, beginners and experts alike …. and difficulties associated with visits. Please remember to bring suitable clothing, footwear and, if necessary, sunscreen. http://www.wiltsbotsoc.co.uk.