Hedge-laying Workshop - Day Two

Feb. 22, 2026

Swinford Meadows
Meet at Wharf Rd
Eynsham OX29 4BP

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Part Two of our Hedge Laying workshop weekend where we'll be getting practical!
 
Come and learn how to lay a hedge with the Oxford Conversation Volunteers (OCV) as part of our Hedge in Time Project, an initiative inspired by local Farmer Robert Crocker that aims, over time, to connect up our villages with a network of hedgerow wildlife corridors.
 
OCV will be helping us to lay the hedges in Swinford Meadows across the river from Long Mead Wildlife Site. Oxford Preservation Trust has kindly leased Swinford Meadows to Long Mead Foundation and Nature Recovery Network for us to restore for our local wildlife. 
 
  • Saturday 21st Feb - Join OCV's hedge-laying training workshop & practical - 10am - 3pm. Please REGISTER.
  • Sunday 22nd Feb - Hedge Laying Day at Swinford Meadow - all welcome - 10am - 3pm Please REGISTER
 
Past participants of our hedge-laying workshops are particularly encouraged to join in as, in line with our NRN mission, we are wanting to build, over time, our own local expert hedge-laying team.
 
If you have no experience of hedge laying please first attend the training workshop on Saturday 21st February.
 
Use the map below to get to Swinford Meadows. We will be laying the hedge between Swinford Pastures North and South. Safest access, unless it is flooding is along the towpath there is a gate into Swinford Pastures from Swinford Meadows. Please look for email updates this week and see directions under location instructions and map below. If you are late, follow the white dotted line across the Neyotts Meadow to the Lock and up the towpath. Call the phone numbers on the map in case of difficulty.
 
 
 



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Nature Recovery Network


Date and Time

Sun, Feb. 22, 2026

10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
(GMT+0000) GMT

Location

Swinford Meadows

Meet at Wharf Rd
Eynsham OX29 4BP

We'll meet at Wharf Road behind Siemens then set off promptly at 10am along the Oxford Road (B4044), over the Toll Bridge through Swinford and continuing until an access gate via the B4044. We will be laying the hedge in Swinford Pasture. Please note there is no vehicle access into …

We'll meet at Wharf Road behind Siemens then set off promptly at 10am along the Oxford Road (B4044), over the Toll Bridge through Swinford and continuing until an access gate via the B4044. We will be laying the hedge in Swinford Pasture. Please note there is no vehicle access into the field and the road can be dangerous. 


Please travel by foot, bus or bike if you can. The E1 Bus stops at the Talbot Inn and the S1 bus stops in Eynsham village, a 10 minute walk away. 


If you need to travel by car please park in Wharf Rd, Eynsham, Witney OX29 4BP.

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Swinford Meadows

Meet at Wharf Rd
Eynsham OX29 4BP