Contact details for Hedgelaying Association

Contact: community@wyevalleyaonb.org.uk
For more information regarding our activity

Training Courses for the Public

 Practical Hedgelaying Instruction Day 

 Saturday November 24^th 2012.

Tutor Andy Williams

Cost £50

 Hazel Wattle Hurdle making introduction day

  Saturday March 2nd 2013.

Tutor Andy Williams

 

Cost £50

Both courses will be held in Flaxley. For any further details of these courses contact:

Andrew Williams

Tel 01452 760899, 07905 547618

Places should be prebooked so to secure your place send a cheque to:

Andrew Williams

Peglars Farm

Flaxley

GL14 1JW

Training Day at Pope's Hill

Thursday 8 November 2012

A training day was held for hedgers to network and have a go at the Midland Style of hedgelaying.

Our thanks to Chris Parsons of the Dean Meadows Group for allowing this event to take place on his land.

Bruce readying his saw for action

 

Dave, Hartley and Bruce hard at work

 



The finished job

 

Bruce and Dave next to their finished hedge

Hartley making a few finishing adjustments

 

Andy and Haydn

 

 

 

 

Hedgelaying Competition

Langattock October 28 2012

 

 

Members take part in the annual hedgelaying competition held in the Langattock area.

 

 

 

Judges viewing the work

 

Haydn Holder in the thick of it

 



The competition



Wye Valley and Forest of Dean Hedgelayers Association

These photographs date for the 1950's and were brought to a hedgelaying awareness day held in January 2012 at Bracelands Adventure Centre.

The Wye Valley AONB unit organised the day to test the interest in forming a local hedgelayers association. The photographs below document that day.

The overgrown hedge at Bracelands

 

 

Cutting back

 

 

Preparing the stakes with a billhook

 

And an axe

Material prepared

Dave Jackson Assessing the next pleacher

On with the task

John Flower with his axe

Alison filling in the gaps

Simon Johnson

 

Job done

 

The day was attended by the Wye Valley AONB volunteers, who were tutore by Dave Jackson, John Flower and Simon Johnson.