Champagne celebration at Swan Lane tidy-up following award win
A bottle of champagne which was given with the Newmarket Community Environment/Heritage Award and enjoyed by some of the volunteers who met for a tidy-up of the wild flower area…
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Botanical survey at Swan Lane identifies diverse range of plants
A botanical survey was carried out by a Cambridge botanist on the wildflower area at Swan Lane and 41 different plants were identified. The area will be strimmed in a…
Autumn tidy-up of the river
A number of volunteers, over several days, cut back and tidied up the vegetation at Swan Lane Bridge, Brookside and the Duck Pond.
Improvements to river flow and bank stability at Brookside and Church Lane
At the end of August and beginning of September volunteers spent two mornings improving the river flow speed in Brookside/Church Lane by placing 5 bags of 40 mm and 20…
Birch faggots donated by The Jockey Club
The Jockey Club, when they stripped out the National Hunt jumps at the end of the season, kindly donated to the Exning New River Association over 100 birch faggots. The…
Wildlife camera captures kingfisher, heron, otters and more
Our wildlife camera has been very active over the winter months, in several locations in the village, and has captured mallard ducks, moorhens, the kingfisher, the heron, little egrets, grey…