Many of us have been inspired by the wood and by our visits there. Here is a collection of things inspired by time spent in Oakley Wood or other woodland.
Well, Cathy had us all stumped with her quiz. No-one got it all right. The questions are here, and these are the answers: Acorn Badger Sycamore Woodcock Beech Roe deer Hedgehog Walnut Lichen Wood anemone […]
At our last AGM the evening’s entertainment included a cryptic quiz about the wood to test your brain, devised by our Cathy Kennedy. We’re repeating it here for those who may have missed it. If […]
In case you haven’t made it to the wood recently, here are a few pictures of summer I took last week. The pretty Herb-robert, a type of cranesbill Red campion Hedge woundwort, historically used for […]
It’s a beautiful morning and I’ve come to the wood to collect the memory card from the trail camera. I park at the south-east corner of the wood. As I enter, barely twelve steps in, […]
Anne Chambers has known Oakley Wood for nearly eight decades. Here she shares some of her childhood memories of the wood.
This picture by Ed Phillips is titled “Woodland Dreams”
One of Wendy’s favourite poems, “The Way Through the Woods” by Rudyard Kipling, is superimposed on a photograph she took in Oakley Wood
This wonderful poem by performance poet Hollie McNish captures the value of getting out in the woods beautifully.