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Greensand
Country Festival
May 2019
Event
Guide
Get involved: greensandcountry.com
Introduction 3 Greensand Country An area of distinct, beautiful and loved countryside Following the huge success of the first Greensand Country Festival last year, the Greensand Country Landscape Partnership has an even BIGGER and BETTER programme of events for May 2019. This guide gives you a full list of events and activities taking place across the landscape. For further details and booking information visit www.greensandcountry.com/whats-on Greensand Country covers 40 miles of scenic landscape, which is defined by the Greensand Ridge and reaches three neighbouring counties, from Cambridgeshire in the East, across Bedfordshire and to Buckinghamshire in the West. The area contains all of Bedfordshire’s remaining heathland, more than half of its woodland and more historic parkland than anywhere else in the country. The Festival is a celebration of Greensand Country, and we encourage you to get out and explore the distinct and beautiful countryside on your doorstep. There are a variety of events for all ages and interests, including cookery classes, churchyard tours, history talks, nature walks, treasure trails, photo competitions, art workshops, children’s activities and traditional country crafts. The Greensand Country Landscape Partnership is led by the Bedfordshire Rural Communities Charity and local environment charity, The Greensand Trust, and is funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. It is made possible by National Lottery players; without them we couldn’t fund the project. Contact Us Stay in touch… Visit the website: www.greensandcountry.com team@greensandcountry.com or call us on: 01234 838774 PLEASE BE AWARE THAT BY PARTICIPATING IN THE GREENSAND COUNTRY FESTIVAL YOU CONSENT TO YOUR PHOTOGRAPH BEING USED BY THE GREENSAND COUNTRY LANDSCAPE PARTNERSHIP FOR MARKETING AND PROMOTIONAL PURPOSES.
Trails in Greensand Country 5
Trails in Greensand Country
36 Oak Wood Sculpture Trail, 20 Clophill Heritage Trust Trails,
Rushmere Country Park St Mary’s Old Church, Clophill
Pick up a trail leaflet at Herons View Visitor There are a number of self-guided geotrails, and
Centre and enjoy a self-led trail with family fun nature trails starting from St Mary’s Old Church,
activities. Peep through the ‘viewing frame’ on the Clophill. Visit Clophill Eco Lodges, pick up one of
1.5km trail to see the emerging heathland, which the many trails booklets and discover the history,
continues to evolve at Rushmere Country Park. heritage and geology of Greensand Country.
Once you’ve finished the trail head to the Visitor www.clophillecolodges.co.uk
Centre and claim your ‘Greensand Country’
Treasure. Please note that this trail is not
suitable for pushchairs and wheelchairs.
4 Heathland Wild Play Trail,
www.greensandtrust.org
RSPB The Lodge Nature
Reserve, Sandy
25 Greensand Country Treasure Discover heathland wildlife, enjoy den building
and climbing, cross obstacle paths and climb
Trail, Ampthill Great Park
up a raised platform to get a birds-eye view of
See pages 30 & 31 within this guide and explore heathland at RSPB The Lodge Nature Reserve.
Ampthill Great Park. Find out more about its The heathland wild play trail is situated close
history and the heritage within the heart of to the shop, toilets and car-park, and there are
Greensand Country on this 2km trail. Take your benches and sitting areas for parents to relax
completed trail to The Hub Cafe to claim your on while the children play. Once you’ve finished
‘Greensand Country’ Treasure. the play trail, visit the RSPB shop to claim your
Image: family activity at The Lodge by RSPB (rspb-images.com)
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) is a registered charity:
England and Wales no. 207076, Scotland no. SC037654. LGE-0087-16-17
www.greensandcountry.com ‘Greensand Country’ Treasure.
Greensand Country Treasure is subject to availability. www.rspb.org.uk/thelodge
v e r
*Please note that car parking fees apply at Rushmere Country Park and RSPB The Lodge Nature Reserve, Sandy.
disThce Loodge nature trails
RSPB shop
events & activiti es
RSPB The Lodge nature reserve and gardens
Potton Road, Sandy SG19 2DL
Tel: 01767 693333
rspb.org.uk/thelodge facebook.com/RSPBhertsandbeds
6 Greensand Country 1-31 May Greensand Country on foot 7
19-33 28-33
History Train Guided Walk Walk4Health Ramblers
1, 8, 11, 15, and 22, 27 May Woburn Sands to Ridgmont Bedfordshire Rural Communities Bedfordshire Area Ramblers
Join a guided train journey on the Marston Vale Bedford to Bletchley Rail Users Association Charity (BRCC) coordinates have put together a
Community Rail Line between Bedford Midland members Phil Warner and Richard Butler will lead Walk4Health programmes programme of walks during
Station and Woburn Sands. The guides will walks from either Woburn Sands or Lidlington* throughout Greensand Country. the Greensand Country
provide an insight into the history of the line and to The Ridgmont Station Heritage Centre on 1, 8, Walks are fun and friendly – perfect to Festival. The distance of walks
surrounding area with 11, 15 and 22 May. Meet at Woburn Sands station help you get active, meet new people and explore ranges from a short 4 mile walk to a 12 mile all
local musician (platform one) at 1pm. The walks will be over our distinct & beautiful landscape. Regrettably, day walk.
Geraldine Pearson-Green open country and walkers should wear suitable dogs are not permitted on most walks. You are invited to take part in as many
performing her own footwear and bring hats and water. Dogs on leads To find a walk near you visit walks as you like, as often as you like.
Bedfordshire Folk Songs and children who are used to country walking are greensandcountry.com/whats-on To find a walk near you visit
at intervals during welcome. Both walks will end at Ridgmont Station Free. No booking required greensandcountry.com/whats-on
the journey. Heritage Centre, where walkers can visit the shop Mike Fayers, Health Walk Manager, Free.
and museum and enjoy drinks and afternoon tea 01234 832619 No booking required
Schedule: at the tea rooms. mikef@bedsrcc.org.uk bedswalkfest@gmail.com
10:30am – Meet at *Walks from Woburn Sands will begin from there, walks
Bedford Midland Mainline Station from Lidlington will take the train from Woburn Sands
10:45am – Introduction to Lidlington and walk back to Ridgmont.
10:55am – Train departs For more information, contact
12pm – Return train departs Woburn Sands Phil Warner on 07769973824 (1, 8, 11 May) or
Richard Butler on 01525 372487 (15 & 22 May)
12:45pm – Arrive back in Bedford
Advance booking recommended for the
Free (Included in cost of Train Fare) Heritage Centre Tea Room. 01525 287120
No booking required
10% discount for rail passengers in the Tea Room.
Higgins Exhibition
The Journey from Bunyan to The Brickworks explores the journeys
of pride, inspiration and hope made by Bunyan who was imprisoned
and persecuted for his beliefs, alongside the difficult journeys made
by those who came to Bedford after the Second World War to work Nordic Walking
at the Bedfordshire brickworks. Walk2Fitness Nordic Walking have put together To find a walk near
The exhibition includes art work created by schools, as well as a programme of walks and taster sessions during you visit
artefacts, songs and a film collected from the community that the Greensand Country Festival. Walks range greensandcountry.
celebrate the legacy and contribution made to Bedford by those that from FREE taster sessions to £8 and booking is com/whats-on
have travelled to live and work here. essential. The distance of walks ranges from short Booking is essential
taster walks to 7.5 miles. Text Elaine on 07894791527
Free, No booking required
The Higgins, Bedford, MK40 3XD
18 Turn your walk into a workout and try Nordic elaine@walk2fitness.co.uk
Walking! All ages and abilities welcome.
For further information on all events visit:
greensandcountry.com/whats-on
8 Week 1: Weds 1 – Tues 7 May Week 1: Weds 1 – Tues 7 May 9
12 21 15 15 28 20
Cultivating Bluebell Walk in Bird Song Walk Animal Orienteering Bedfordshire Geology Wall
Mindfulness Maulden Woods 4 May, 7am – 9am 4 May, 9:30am – 10:30am Brickworks Unveiling
Practice 3 May, 10am – 11:30am Join Central Bedfordshire Join Central Bedfordshire Exhibition 4 May, 11am – 3pm
2 May, 10am – 1pm Join Ampthill Health Walks for Council’s Countryside Team for Council’s Countryside Team for 4 May, 10am – 4pm Bedfordshire Geology Group
this short 3/3.5 mile walk in a walk at Campton Plantation to an animal orienteering event at will unveil its new feature at
An invitation to learn Take a step back into
lovely Maulden Woods, with find out more about Greensand Campton Plantation. St Mary’s Old Church, Clophill
Mindfulness Practice to Bedfordshire’s past at a
hopefully bluebells and wild Country’s singing birds and Free Eco Lodges, which celebrates
cultivate your mind in the special one-day Brickworks
garlic in flower. why they sing. Booking is essential the Earth Heritage of
beautiful setting of the Swiss Exhibition at Ridgmont
Garden at Shuttleworth. Free Free 0300 300 6135 Station Heritage Centre. Greensand Country.
Suitable for beginners. No booking required Booking is essential steve.halton@ Free
0300 300 6135 Free
Meeting point: Maulden centralbedfordshire.gov.uk No booking required
£30 No booking required
Woods, large car park on A6 steve.halton@
Booking is essential
north of Clophill, MK45 3UZ centralbedfordshire.gov.uk
www.shuttleworth.org/events
enquiries@shuttleworth.org
25 12 25 28 36
Parent and Herbs – Introduction to Sustrans Guided Bedfordshire Linslade Wood
Toddler Forest School Cultivation & Use Bushcraft Bike Ride Folk Singer Guided Walk
3 May, 10am – 11:30am through the Ages 4 May, 9am – 1pm 4 May, 10am – 2pm 4 May, 11am – 3pm 4 May, 11:30am
Come and have some fun in the 3 May, 10:30am – 12:30pm From our woodland camp at Join Sustrans for a leisurely Local musician Geraldine Join this guided history and
woods at Ampthill Great Park, A presentation on the use and Ampthill Great Park, learn ride in Greensand Country, Pearson-Green will perform bluebells walk around the
with your toddlers. Activities history of herbs, with samples, the basics and background of taking in the sights and sounds her own Bedfordshire Folk beautiful ancient Linslade
include mud kitchen, den recipes and a quiz with a Bushcraft. Build tarp shelters, and enjoying the natural and Songs at intervals throughout woodland, by local volunteer
building, woodland crafts and herby prize, taking place in the learn knots and receive an local history. the day at the Bedfordshire Dave Booth.
more. Suitable from walking. beautiful setting of the Swiss introduction to fire. Free Brickworks Exhibition at £4
£6 per child Garden at Shuttleworth. Adults from £25, Booking is essential Ridgmont Station Booking is essential
Booking is essential Under 18 from £20 01733 319981 Heritage Centre. www.greensandtrust.org/
£10
www.marstonvaleforest Booking is essential Booking is essential Volunteers-MidsEast@ Free whats-on
school.co.uk www.shuttleworth.org/events bookings.ntcbushcraft.co.uk sustrans.org.uk No booking required
info@marstonvaleforest enquiries@shuttleworth.org info@ntcbushcraft.co.uk
school.co.uk
For further information on all events visit:
greensandcountry.com/whats-on
10 Week 1: Weds 1 – Tues 7 May Week 1: Weds 1 – Tues 7 May 11
Flitton Family Fun Run
6 May, 10:15am – 2pm
• A 5K cross country run around Flitton &
Flitwick Moors for over 13 yrs
29 21 25 • A Junior 1 mile run around Flitton Moor for 8
to 12 yr olds
Animal Edge Spring Flowers in Introduction to • A kids 200 meter run for under 8 yr olds
Open Day Maulden Wood Bushcraft Time: 10:30am for races (Prize-giving at
The White Hart, Flitton from 12:30pm)
4 and 5 May, 10am – 2pm 5 May, 10:30am – 12:30pm 6 May, 9am – 4:30pm
Cost:
Visit Animal Edge’s open day A guided walk with the From our woodland camp at
• 5K: £8 for pre entry (£10 on the day)
at its small animal farm in Greensand Trust Ecologist to Ampthill Great Park, enjoy
• Junior 1 mile: £3
Millbrook, with access to feed explore the woodland when it a full day of Bushcraft. Learn
• Kids: Free
and pet farm animals, enjoy pony is looking its best with spring the basics, build tarp shelters,
rides and take part in outdoor flowers and to learn more about learn knots and receive an Booking is advised
craft activities. its wildlife, history and woodland introduction to fire and Registration on the day at Flitton Church
management. sharp tools. Hall, 9am - 10:15am
£5 per child (adults free)
flittongreenfield.bedsparishes.gov.uk
Booking is advised Adults £4, Children £2 Adults from £45, Under 18
flittonflit@gmail.com
www.animaledge.co.uk Booking is essential from £30
Meeting point: Flitton Moor, Brook Lane,
Info@animaledge.co.uk www.greensandtrust.org/ Booking is essential 23 Flitton, Beds, MK45 5EJ
whats-on bookings.ntcbushcraft.co.uk
info@ntcbushcraft.co.uk
41 26 9
Make a Willow Ball BHS Lidlington Ride Ickwell May Day 24 4
5 May, 10am – 4:30pm 5 May, 10am – 12pm 6 May, 10am - 4pm
Enjoy a day in the woods, Bring your horse to enjoy A traditional annual festival
with the crowning of the May
Humphry Repton Talk Geo Rocks Walk
between Campton and Upper the British Horse Society’s
Gravenhurst, making a willow guided ride around Lidlington. Queen and dancing around the 6 May, 7pm – 9pm 8 May, 10am – 12pm
ball. Learn how to make a The route from Marston maypole. A selection of stalls, Join Beds Gardens Trust in Ampthill Join Bedfordshire Geology Group for this
beautiful willow sphere to Forest Centre to Lidlington is refreshments and entertainment to find out details of Humphry Repton’s gardens Geo Walk to discover the geology and ancient
decorate your home or garden. approximately 7 miles. are available at Ickwell Green. at Woburn Abbey, Moggerhanger Park, Hazells environments at RSPB The Lodge Nature Reserve.
£70 Free (£15 refundable deposit Free. No booking required and Battlesden. Adults £2, Children £1
Booking is essential required upon booking) www.ickwellmayday.co.uk £5 Beds Garden Trust members, £6 non-members Booking is essential
www.wassledine.co.uk Booking is essential coordinator@ickwellmayday. 07919158622
Booking is advised
info@wassledine.co.uk robina@chatham.uk.com co.uk bev.fowlston@gmail.com
www.bedsgardenstrust.org.uk
secretary@bedsgardenstrust.org.uk
For further information on all events visit:
greensandcountry.com/whats-on
12 Adventures in Greensand Country Week 2: Weds 8 – Tues 14 May 13
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• Attract more birds The Therapeutic Basket Making for Stories of the
• High quality ingredients Garden Beginners Landscape
• Homemade on our Chicksands farm 9 May, 10am – 12pm 11 May, 9:30am – 5pm 11 May
A presentation and ‘Make & Enjoy a day in the woods, Join Full House Theatre as they
• Recyclable packaging Take’ session on the benefits and between Campton and Upper discover the stories of Ampthill
• Free next day delivery use of essential oils to improve Gravenhurst, making a willow Great Park and its exciting
wellbeing, taking place in the basket. Learn how to make a history.
• Direct from our farm beautiful setting of the Swiss small round basket in a day. Free
Garden at Shuttleworth. £70 Booking is essential
To order go to £20 Booking is essential www.fullhouse.org.uk
www.ivelvalleybirdfood.co.uk Booking is essential www.wassledine.co.uk info@fullhouse.org.uk
www.shuttleworth.org/events info@wassledine.co.uk
enquiries@shuttleworth.org
We are proud to be in the heart of Greensand Country
A Day in
12 25 24
The Woods
Tai Chi in the Apps, Maps & Kelchner Brewery
Courses/events Swiss Garden Compasses Course Tour
10 May, 10am – 11:30am 11 May, 10am – 4pm 11 May, 11am – 1pm
Willow weaving
Woodworking A wonderful soft exercise and Are you baffled by maps, Tour of the Kelchner Brewery,
Wellbeing calming meditative movement confused by compasses and including explanation and
in the delightful outdoor daunted by digital devices? This tasters. Kelchner Brewery is
setting of the Swiss Garden one day course, in Ampthill, based at Unit D, Station Road
at Shuttleworth. Suitable for will help you get the most out Industrial Estate, Ampthill,
beginners. of planning and navigating your MK45 2QY.
wassledine.co.uk £10 next walk.
info@wassledine.co.uk Free
01462 711815 Booking is essential £10 Booking is essential
07794 013876 www.shuttleworth.org/events Booking is essential www.kelchnerbrewery.co.uk
enquiries@shuttleworth.org www.bedswalkfest.co.uk kelchnerbrewery@gmail.com
Bedswalkfest@gmail.com
We are proud to be in the
heart of
14 Week 2: Weds 8 – Tues 14 May Week 2: Weds 8 – Tues 14 May 15
25 30 1
35 22 Introduction to Nature Detectives Humphry Repton
Bushcraft at Flitwick Moor in Waresley
BHS Aspley Woods Ride Made in Maulden Festival 12 May, 9am – 1pm 12 May, 10am – 2pm 12 May, 11am for 11:30am
11 May, 2pm – 4pm 12 May, 12pm – 5pm From our woodland camp at Borrow an explorer backpack in Waresley Village Hall,
Bring your horse to enjoy the British Horse Visit St Mary the Virgin Church and Church Ampthill Great Park, enjoy a and turn into a nature detective. 2pm Tour
Society’s Aspley Woods Ride. Guided horse ride Hall, Maulden for the Made in Maulden Festival, morning of Bushcraft. Receive Discover the nature that lives Morning lecture on Repton’s Red
(6 miles), a gentle walk/trot ride in a small group. showcasing local crafts, a plant sale, cakes, produce an introduction to cutting tools, on Flitwick Moor & make your Book with afternoon guided tour.
and refreshments. There will also be a dedication of a whittling challenge and fire. own mini-beast.
Free (£15 refundable deposit required upon £10 for lecture;
booking) the rebuilt sandstone wall by Bishop Richard. Adults from £25, Under 18 £3 £10 for tour - £15 for both
Booking is essential Free from £20 Booking is advised
Booking essential for tour
lizannhopkins@aol.com No booking required Booking is essential www.wildlifetrustbcn.org
Call 01767 650432 and
www.stmarysmaulden.org bookings.ntcbushcraft.co.uk Toddington@wildlifebcn.org
07747072340
rev.l.klimas@btinternet.com info@ntcbushcraft.co.uk
jack.eleanor@gmail.com
New for 2019!
31 42 12
BHS Bluebell Ride Children’s Cooking Yoga and Meditation
12 May, Start times Workshop Practice
between 12 May, 10:30am – 13 May, 10am – 11:15am
9:30am and 11:30am 12:30pm A slow, flowing yoga practice
Bring your horse to enjoy In this fabulously fun cooking suitable for all ages and abilities,
Greensand Festival 2019 at The Swiss Garden the British Horse Society’s workshop at Steppingly Village and taking place in the lovely
outdoor setting of the Swiss
popular Bluebell Ride, starting Hall, the children will get to
This May, the Swiss Garden will be hosting six wonderful activities as part of the Greensand Festival: from Eversholt. Routes of Garden at Shuttleworth.
make 2 delicious savoury
Cultivating Mindfulness Workshop on Thursday 2 and Friday 31 May approximately 7.5 and 12 miles. loaves from scratch, each £10
Herbs Presentation – Cultivation & Use through the Ages on Friday 3 May one presented and baked in a Booking is essential
£15 in advance (by 3 May)
The Therapeutic Garden: Essential Oils & Wellbeing on Thursday 9 May terracotta Flowerpot. www.shuttleworth.org/events
or £20 on the day
Tai Chi on Friday 10 May enquiries@shuttleworth.org
Yoga and Meditation Practice on Monday 13 and Monday 20 May Booking is advised £15 per child
Foot Reflexology Sessions on Friday 24 May tinyurl.com/bhsbluebell19 (under 5s must be
accompanied by an adult)
The Swiss Garden, Old Warden, Beds, SG18 9EP 01767 627933 www.shuttleworth.org/events Booking is essential
cook-stars-bedford.class
4kids.co.uk
Greensand Country Festival Guide HP v2.indd 1 19/02/2019 09:53:42
For further information on all events visit:
greensandcountry.com/whats-on
16 Week 3: Weds 15 – Tues 21 May Week 3: Weds 15 – Tues 21 May 17
11 25 25
BHS Willington to Parent and Toddler Ampthill Photo Walk
Old Warden Ride Forest School 18 May, 9:30am –
12:30pm 39 3
15 May, 10am – 12pm 17 May, 10am – 11:30am
Bring your horse to enjoy Come and have some fun in the For anyone looking to get
the British Horse Society’s woods at Ampthill Great Park, better photographs whilst Dachshund Group Walk Eastern Ridge and Parkland Walk
Willington to Old Warden with your toddlers. Activities out and about on countryside
guided Ride. Most of the 7.5 include mud kitchen, den walks, get tips on composition, 19 May, 11am – 2pm 21 May, 6pm – 9pm
miles ride will be in walk and building, woodland crafts and framing and creative ways to Join Bedfordshire Dachshunds for a lovely A circular 6.75miles evening walk between Everton
trot, however some canter more. Suitable from walking. use your camera or phone to walk in the Greensand Country. This is a gentle & Gamlingay; including the Greensand Ridge Walk
opportunities may be taken. get standout shots. countryside walk on public footpaths taking you up & historic parklands, hosted by Bedfordshire Rural
£6 per child
£3.50 to the Jolly Coopers for refreshments. Communities Charity.
Free (£15 refundable deposit Booking is essential
required upon booking) www.marstonvaleforest Booking is essential Free Free
Booking is essential school.co.uk Nickhallphotographic.co.uk No booking required Booking is essential
lindsaymeasures@gmail.com info@marstonvaleforest nickhallphotographic@ Meeting point: Waterslade (Garden Club and mikef@bedsrcc.org.uk
school.co.uk gmail.com Allotments) Silsoe, MK45 4ES Meeting point: Meet at St Mary’s Church,
Church End, Everton, SG19 2JZ
25 14
Sustrans Guided Introduction to Shefford History Day
Bike Ride Bushcraft 18 May, 10am – 4pm 12 24
16 May, 10am – 2pm 18 May, 9am – 1pm Based at Shefford House, this
Join Sustrans for a leisurely From our woodland camp at local and family history day will
ride in Greensand Country, Ampthill Great Park, enjoy a include a short walking tour, a Yoga and Meditation Practice Gertrude Jekyll Talk
taking in the sights and sounds Bushcraft session dedicated family history Q&A session and 20 May, 10am – 11:15am 21 May, 7pm – 9pm
and enjoying the natural and to fire. Learn what it is, how to a display of historical pictures Join Beds Gardens Trust in Ampthill to find out
and maps of Shefford. A slow, flowing yoga practice suitable for all ages
local history. create and control it. and abilities, and taking place in the lovely outdoor details of Gertrude Jekyll’s only commission for a
Free Adults from £25, Under 18 Free setting of the Swiss Garden at Shuttleworth. garden in Beds at Ickwellbury.
Booking is essential from £20 No booking required £5 Beds Garden Trust members,
towncouncil@sheffordtown. £10
01733 319981 Booking is essential Booking is essential £6 non-members
Volunteers-MidsEast@ bookings.ntcbushcraft.co.uk co.uk Booking is advised
www.sheffordtown.co.uk Visit: www.shuttleworth.org/events
sustrans.org.uk info@ntcbushcraft.co.uk enquiries@shuttleworth.org www.bedsgardenstrust.org.uk
secretary@bedsgardenstrust.org.uk
For further information on all events visit:
greensandcountry.com/whats-on
18 Map of Greensand Country Map of Greensand Country 19
Waresley 1
Everton Gamlingay
HUNTINGDON
3 2
Sandy 4 Potton Cockayne
Hatley
Moggerhanger 5 RSPB
Park A1
Sandy Wrestlingworth
10 7 Beeston
Bedford Willington 11
Centre 18 8 Upper
Bedford Ickwell 9
19 D Caldecote
Train Station OR Shuttleworth 12 6
DF
BE 13 Old Biggleswade Dunton
Wilstead
Warden
17 (Vineyard) Swiss
Garden
26 Marston Forest Haynes 16 Rowney E
Centre
Warren STEVENAG
Cranfield
25 A6 A6 layby Campton 15
34 14
Ampthill Maulden
ES 21 Wood Shefford
K EYN Brogborough 27 Lidlington Great Park 20 Clifton
ON M1 28 Clophill
MILT Ampthill
33 Ridgemont Station Millbrook 22 Maulden
(Animal Edge) 29 24 Meppershall
Woburn Ridgmont Flitton 23
Sands Steppingly 42 Silsoe
30 Flitwick 41 Gravenhurst
Aspley 35 Woburn 39
Safari Park
Woburn 31 M1
Everton LUTON
32
Woburn (Ride) 40 Westoning
Abbey
Great Brickhill Harlington
A4146 Heath & Toddington
Reach A5
Soulbury 36 Rushmere
Rushmere
Country Park
37
Tiddenfoot 38 Leighton
BuzzardWeek 4: Weds 22 – Tues 28 May 21
25 13 20
Introduction to Warden Abbey Clophill to
Bushcraft Vineyard Westoning Walk
22 May, 9am – 1pm Tour and Tasting 25 May, 9:30am – 1pm
From our woodland camp at 25 May, 10:30am Enjoy a 7.5 miles’ linear
Ampthill Great Park, enjoy a and 2pm walk through the beautiful
morning of Bushcraft. Greensand Country. Led by
The vineyard is bursting into
Receive an introduction to tarps local volunteer David Sedgley,
life at this time of year, and
and tents. the Flit Valley Walk will include
you can discover the secrets
20 years caring for the Greensand Ridge Adults from £25, Under 18 details of the natural habitat
of its medieval history as well
from £20 and history along the route.
as hear about English Wine
Booking is essential and how volunteers look after Free
The Greensand Trust thanks everyone who has helped us raise and invest over £17 million in the local bookings.ntcbushcraft.co.uk the vineyard at this exciting Booking is essential
environment since 1999. We receive no core funding, so everything we achieve is thanks to your support! info@ntcbushcraft.co.uk community project. Tour finishes dsedgley@talktalk.net
For more information and ways you can support us visit www.greensandtrust.org with a tasting of two of our wines. Meet near Westoning
Village Hall to take transport
£10, Booking is essential
to start of the walk
www.wardenvineyard.org.uk
12 18 36
Country Park Reflexology Taster Bedfordshire Woollen Woods
Session Brickworks Day at Rushmere
24 May, 10:30am – 3pm 25 May – 3 June
Proud to be a gateway to Greensand Country A 20-minute reflexology session
25 May, 11am – 4pm
Come and enjoy a fun day of Following the success of last
based in the Swiss Garden at music, talks, activities and year’s event, Woollen Woods
Shuttleworth’s lovely Garden sharing your memories of all – a trail featuring knitted
View herons nesting in Spring Room. Individual sessions things brickworks related at woodland creatures native
from our outdoor café terrace, discover booked directly with the The Higgins, Bedford. to Greensand Country – will
fairy doors and the Giant’s Chair along our Sculpture therapist.
Free return to Rushmere Country
Park.
Trail, walk the dog, bring your bike – we’ve something for £15 No booking required
Booking is essential www.thehigginsbedford. (£3 car park fee)
everyone with over 400 acres of woodland,
www.shuttleworth.org/events gov.uk Free, No booking required
heathland and meadows to enjoy. ann.abrams@btinternet.com thehiggins@bedford.gov.uk www.greensandtrust.org/
rushmere-country-park
Linslade Road, Heath and Reach, Beds LU7 0EB
www.greensandtrust.org/rushmere-country-park
Registered Charity no. 107705522 Week 4: Weds 22 – Tues 28 May Week 4: Weds 22 – Tues 28 May 23
25 18 6
Spring Foraging Brian Kerr Talk Guided Trail Run 29 20
Course 26 May, 2:30pm/3:30pm 26 May, 9:45am – 1pm
26 May, 12pm – 3:30pm A 1 hour talk by Brian Kerr Join Runaway Adventures for
Animal Edge Open Day Teddy Bear Hunt
Join The Foraging Course forms part of the of the Higgins a run that will explore some 27 May, 10am – 2pm 27 May, 11am – 1pm
Company at Ampthill Great exhibition, From Bunyan to of Greensand Country’s best Visit Animal Edge’s open day at its small animal Join us in Bluebell Wood Clophill for a children’s
Park to discover the wild edibles Brickworks at The Higgins features, including Biggleswade farm in Millbrook, with access to feed and pet teddy bear hunt – bring a packed lunch and after
growing in Greensand Country Museum in Bedford Common, River Ivel, The Lodge, farm animals, enjoy pony rides and take part in you’ve hunted for bears enjoy a story while
and learn how to identify them. Free parts of the Greenwheel. outdoor craft activities. you eat.
£35 No booking required £8 Early Bird, £10 two weeks £5 per child (adults free) £5 per child (adults free)
Booking is essential before the event Booking is advised Booking is essential
www.foragingcoursecompany. Booking is essential www.animaledge.co.uk clophillecolodges.co.uk/events
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info@foragingcoursecompany.
co.uk
20 25 17
Clophill Sunday Teas Introduction Summerfields’ 11-16 Years Activity Day.
26 May, 2pm – 4pm to Bushcraft Miniature Railway 28 May, 9am - 4:30pm
Join Clophill Heritage Trust 26 May, 9am – 1pm 26 and 27 May,
at Clophill Eco Lodges at St From our woodland camp at 10:30am – 4pm A day recreating arrival at a new camp.
Mary’s Old Church, Clophill for Ampthill Great Park, learn We’ll be shelter building, fire lighting,
The railways in Haynes are a
hot or cold drinks, lunches and the basics and background of campfire cooking and lots more including
popular visitor destination for
delicious homemade cakes. Bushcraft. Build tarp shelters, challenges and games.
children and parents alike. Fares
Free learn knots and receive an taken on 27 May will be donated 11-16 years only
No booking required introduction to fire. to Keech Hospice Care. £30
clophillecolodges.co.uk/ Adults from £25, Under 18 Booking is essential
From £2
events from £20 info@ntcbushcraft.co.uk
No booking required
Booking is essential ntcbushcraft.co.uk/11-16
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bookings.ntcbushcraft.co.uk 07855 805756
info@ntcbushcraft.co.uk
For further information on all events visit:
greensandcountry.com/whats-onGreensand Week 5: Weds 29 – Tues 4 June 25
Country Festival
May 2019 Great Days Out by
Train this Spring!
Panacea
History Through Word & Song Trains Museum 25 22 24
1, 8, 11, 15, 22 and 27 May John Bunyan Museum BEDFORD
The Higgins Bedford Introduction to Walk the new Nature Detectives
Meet at 10:30, event starts at 10:45 BEDFORD
Enjoy a guided train journey on the Marston Vale Line between Vue St Johns Bushcraft Central Geotrail at Coopers Hill
Bedford Midland and Woburn Sands as part of the Greensand Cinema 29 May, 9am – 1pm 29 May, 11am and 2pm 30 May, 10.30am – 12.30pm
Country Festival. Learn about the history
With activities of open
including the Line with Kids World
gardens, churchyard tours,
Laser World From our woodland camp at Join Bedfordshire Geology Family Event. Discover the nature
local musician Geraldine Pearson-Green
history talks, natureperforming
walks, her own
treasure trails, children’s
Ampthill Great Park, learn Group for a guided walk in the that lives on Coopers Hill. £3
Bedfordshire folk songs duringactivities
the journey.
and traditional Normal rail fares apply.
country crafts, there’s Kempston
something for everyone at the
Hardwick the basics and background of heart of Greensand Country. 1pm - 3:30pm, 13-18 year olds.
Greensand Country Festival.
Bushcraft. Learn about friction Discover the geology and earth Join South Beds Youth Rangers
Kimberley College fire and build your own bow heritage around the village of for an afternoon of wildlife
drill set. Maulden. surveying and practical
Plus free guided walk from Woburn Sands Station to Ridgmont Stewartby
Get involved: greensandcountry.com Adults from £25, Under 18 from Free conservation.
Station Heritage Centre on 1, 8, 11, 15 and 22 May
£20 Booking is advised Free
Approx. 5m suitable for all abilities
Millbrook Booking is essential bev.fowlston@gmail.com Booking is advised
For further info go to Ridgmont Station
Heritage Centre bookings.ntcbushcraft.co.uk Meeting point: The George www.wildlifetrustbcn.org
www.greensandcountry.com/whats-on/ The Forest Centre info@ntcbushcraft.co.uk Inn, Maulden, MK45 2DF Toddington@wildlifebcn.org
HULA Millennium Country Park
Frosts Lidlington
BIRMINGHAM Garden Animal Rescue
NEW STREET Centre
Ridgmont
Woodland
Walks Aspley
MILTON Woburn Guise
KEYNES Sands
New Bank Holiday Service
Central Bow Wyevale Starts 27th May!
Brickhill Garden Centre
BLETCHLEY Fenny Bank Holiday services return after
Stratford 50 years! 17 12 20
MK Dons FC
Bletchley Join us to celebrate at Ridgmont Station
Park Heritage Centre - visit the British Transport Summerfields’ Stories of the Clophill Plant
LEIGHTON Police vehicle & find all about their work! Miniature Railway Landscape
BUZZARD Heritage Centre & Tea Room open as usual.
Identification Walk
Leighton Buzzard
Railway Family & Quiz Booklet available. 29 May, 10:30am – 4pm 29 and 30 May 30 May, 10am – 12pm
10% discount for rail passengers in the Tea The railways (there are Join Motus Dance Company Join this two-hour stroll through
Room! Free entry to Heritage Centre. Open three separate rides at the in the picturesque Swiss the beautiful Greensand
GroupSave & 10:00 - 4:00. Or why not take the opportunity Summerfields’ site) are a popular Garden, for exciting stories of Country led by Clophill Heritage
Senior Saver to visit one of the many other attractions visitor destination for children Shuttleworth and its history. Trust’s local horticultural expert.
along the Line or a walk between stations? and parents alike.
Rail Tickets: Heritage Centre also open daily 10:00 - 4:00
Free (included in Swiss Garden £3
Tuesday - Saturday From £2 entry fee) Booking is essential
Great rail fares for families!
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BHS Willington to All about Owls Family Forest Earth Day Moggerhanger Bioblitz and
Old Warden Ride 31 May, 10:30am – School Taster 31 May, 12:30pm – Park Plant Fair Mini-environmental
30 May, 6pm – 8pm 12:30pm 31 May, 10am – 12pm and 3:30pm 2 June, 10am - 4pm fair at Rushmere
Bring your horse to enjoy Join Teaching Talons in Ampthill 1:30pm – 3:30pm Come and try a variety of Moggerhanger Park will hold 2 June, 11am – 3pm
the British Horse Society’s for this indoor workshop. Meet Come and have some fun in the countryside crafts such as its plant fair in the Walled Visit Rushmere Country Park
Willington to Old Warden two owls and examine and woods at Ampthill Great Park, willow hurdles, fire lighting, Garden. Visit the Garden for a family-fun day of nature
Ride. Most of the ride will be dissect a wild, Bedfordshire owl building dens and shelters, fire shelter building and more at Rooms Café where you will activities and guided walks,
in walk and trot, however if all pellet! What will you find? lighting, trying some woodland Clophill Eco Lodges, plus the find lots of fun and family exploring rare heathland
riders are happy, some canter £4 per child arts and crafts and more. café will be open serving hot & friendly activites. Enjoy habitats, including a tour of the
opportunities may be taken. (accompanying adult free) Suitable for all ages. cold drinks. tours of the grounds and Ice new Heathland Sculpture Trail.
Free (£15 refundable deposit Booking is essential £6 per child Free House by Beds Gardens Trust,
Free
required upon booking) council@ampthilltown Booking is essential Booking is essential additional cost.
(£3 car park fee)
Booking is essential council.org.uk marstonvaleforestschool.co.uk clophillecolodges.co.uk/ £3 (Under 16’s Free) No booking required
lindsaymeasures@gmail.com 01525 404355 info@marstonvaleforest events No booking required www.greensandtrust.org/
school.co.uk info@ClophillEcoLodges.co.uk www.moggerhangerpark.com rushmere-country-park
25 41 12 24
Ampthill Bat Walk Storytelling in the Cultivating Old Warden’s Lost
30 May, 9pm – 10pm Woods Mindfulness Practice Abbey Exhibition
40
Enjoy an evening guided walk 31 May, 2pm – 4:30pm 31 May, 10am – 1pm 1 June, 10am – 4pm
through Ampthill Great Park Enjoy a walk through the woods, An invitation to learn Based on ‘Time Team’ style
using bat detectors. Wear between Campton and Upper Mindfulness Practice to geophysics, find out how Westoning to Clophill Walk
suitable clothing and bring Gravenhurst, full of stories, cultivate your mind in the Warden Abbey may have
a torch. 2 June, 2pm – 5pm
which will take us to a secret beautiful setting of the Swiss looked c.1370 at St Andrew’s
£4 glade, where you will join our Garden at Shuttleworth. Enjoy a 7.5 miles’ linear walk through the beautiful Greensand
Church, Rectory Lane,
Booking is essential woodland tea party. Suitable for beginners. Country. Led by local volunteer David Sedgley, the Flit Valley Walk will
Ampthill, MK45 2EL.
council@ampthilltown include details of the natural habitat and history along the route.
£7.50 £30 Free
council.org.uk Booking is essential Booking is essential Free
No booking required
www.wassledine.co.uk www.shuttleworth.org/events Booking is essential (to secure you place on return transport)
Photo from LBPC dsedgley@talktalk.net
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Butchers & Delicatessen
Café serving home-cooked food
Delving into Heritage Day
• Fruit and veg stall The Origins and Development of
• Store cupboard goodies
FAR M SHOP & CA F É • All profits support local rural communities Monastic Heritage in Greensand Country
Date: Tuesday 16 July 2019
Description: Day-long conference with a range of speakers and
optional guided walk
Venue: The Sculpture Gallery, Woburn Abbey
Charge: £15 per person (Student Concessions: £5 per person)
Greensand Country has a rich medieval monastic heritage with several sites clustered together
in the area surrounding the Greensand Ridge. Why are there so many monastic sites and what
impact do they have on the landscape today?
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£3.50? Designed Landscape Specialists, we will explore the unique heritage of monastic sites in
Tues - Sat: 8:30am – 5pm 01234 831222 £3.50 Greensand Country. This will be an informal conference with the opportunity to take part in a
Sun: 10am – 4pm thebarncardington.com guided walk around the gardens at Woburn Abbey.
The Greensand Country Landscape Partnership is proud to be working with The Sculpture
Enjoy The Best of Bedfordshire
Gallery at Woburn Abbey to deliver the second of three annual ‘Delving into Heritage Days.’
Each year, we explore a difference landscape theme that makes up the distinctive ‘landscape
character’ of the Greensand Country area.
The Barn at Cardington is delighted to be wines, which is a community-run vineyard also Booking is essential. Last year’s conference was very popular so we advise booking tickets
supporting the Greensand Country Festival. supported by BRCC. early to avoid disappointment. Tickets available from Monday 10th June but you can
We are a social venture supported by request to be emailed further information and a booking reminder at the beginning of
Our café serves a wide range of breakfast
Bedfordshire Rural Communities Charity June by contacting team@greensandcountry.com NOW.
and lunch options and there is always a great
(BRCC), which also manages the Greensand
selection of locally made cakes. The café makes The conference is also an opportunity to find out more about our Community Heritage Grant
Country Landscape Partnership, and run on
a great place to meet friends young and old. Schemes and how you can apply to the Greensand Country Landscape Partnership for funding
a non-profit basis. The aim of the venture is
to help encourage local food producers by Check out our website for all the fantastic to investigate and promote local heritage. Have a look at our website – greensandcountry.com
providing a retail outlet and to support the products we sell that can’t be purchased at – to discover more about events, activities, training courses and projects being delivered by the
work of BRCC. a supermarket and help support our work in Greensand Country Landscape Partnership.
Bedfordshire – thebarncardington.com
Our lamb, beef, pork and game are all sourced
from local farms in Bedfordshire and our Bedfordshire Rural Communities Charity
chicken comes from a high welfare producer (BRCC) is the leading community development
in Suffolk. We also have an in-house bakery agency working across Bedfordshire. As well
which produces home-made scones and rolls as The Barn and Old Warden vineyard, we help
and we have our deli which provides a wide support local communities through initiatives
range of artisan cheeses and other delicacies. such as Good Neighbour Schemes, helping to
protect the green environment through the
For those who enjoy exploring hand crafted
Greensand Country Landscape Partnership
drinks, we have a great range of locally
and managing Community Rail Partnerships. If
produced wine, beer, cider and gin. We are
you would like to know more see our website -
the main retail outlet for Warden Abbey
bedsrcc.org.ukAmpthill Great Park - Treasure Trail There are several knolls known as “clumps
on lumps” . These were designed to give the
2019 is the 40th anniversary of Kit William’s
book Masquerade, which sparked a national
This is a magical place; rich in history with tales of kings, queens, a castle, impression of height, having a flat top on treasure hunt for the Golden Hare amulet,
war heroes, buried treasure, a golden hare, the famous landscape architect which a tent could be erected to admire the buried in the shadow of Katherine’s Cross.
spectacular views created by Brown. He
Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown...and it is even home to a sleeping dragon. also group-planted individual tree species Q9. What was the highest position Katherine of
for further effect. Along the ridge you will Aragon held whilst married to Henry VIII?
Take a tour through the trail and let the Continue Northwards towards Laurel Wood see Pine and Beech trees.
treasures of this park reveal themselves! (also known as the Darkenings) Walking past Katherine’s Cross you will come
to the Carriage Drive. Turn right and follow
Start from Central Car Park (where the Hub Q7. Water was a great feature of the path down and around to the left admiring
As you walk towards Laurel Wood you will
Café is). Take the ‘ride’ (path) which threads its Capability Browns Landscape. What the beautiful views, until you reach a kissing
see a tall tower known as the Standing. This
way through Russett’s Plantation. is the name of the lake you can see gate into Westminster Field. (For a short-cut,
was a hunting tower in the Royal Deer Park.
halfway up the hill? walk down the hill to the kissing gate).
Rides were designed by Capability Brown
Q4. There is no trace of the Standing today. Turn left towards the war memorial cross. Q10. Here you will find a poem, which is one of
for summer and winter carriage outings as the
What would this hunting tower have seven erected on the Greensand Ridge to
wooded area gave both shade and
been made of? Ampthill Park was a military training camp commemorate what Royal occasion?
shelter for the more ‘delicate’ residents.
Follow the path round to the left onto the ridge established by the 11th Duke of Bedford.
When you reach the crossroads, take the path past Breakheart Hill. It is so quiet here that you would never know
Q8. 2,235 men joined of their own free will that Westminster Field lies on the edge of a
on your left into the play area. (If you have a Q5. What magnificent house are Len and under voluntary enlistment. When did major railway tunnel where the mainline trains
dog, follow the fence to your right until you Betty facing? compulsory service become law? speed through just a few metres away.
reach another gate into the park).
As you walk along the ridge the view of the Head to Katherine’s Cross near the ridge.
Q1. What lies asleep beneath the Bedford Vale unfolds.
Walk along Westminster field towards the
storyteller’s chair? Q6. With only 4 of 135 chimneys remaining as road. Turn left over the bridge by the 5-bar
The area between the two crosses is the site
Q2. In the playground, you can see the evidence of its past, what was made here? of Ampthill Castle. It was more of a fortified gate into the main park heading uphill towards
remains of the base of a building from As you walk further along the ridge you will stately home built in the 1420s but there is three mature beech trees. Go through the
World War II. What year did this war see more work by Capability Brown. no trace of it above ground level today. West car park to pick up the other end of the
finish? (Clue: Look on the wooden archway). shelter belt to where you started this journey.
Fill in your answers in the grid then re-arrange
After World War II Ampthill Great Park the letters in the red squares to make a word
accommodated a prisoner of war camp. or two. Then go to the Hub Café to claim your
treasure. Good luck!
Exit the playground via the North East
gate (there is a compass on the map of Answer Grid Re-arrange the letters in the grey
squares to find the treasure
Ampthill Park) and continue east
towards Russett’s Lodge. 1
2
Russett’s Lodge was originally a pair of 3
cottages and then used as a hunting lodge 4
in the Royal Deer Park. The stone façade 5
on North side is an addition by either 6
Capability Brown or Sir William Chambers. 7
8
Q3. What birds have set up home in 9
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