Botanical Survey Workshop

May 24, 2026

Long Mead Local Wildlife Site
Oxford Road
Swinford OX29 4DU
United Kingdom

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We're very lucky to again have leading Oxfordshire botanist, Camilla Lambrick of the Ashmolean Natural History Society of Oxfordshire (ANHSO), join our network to train or refresh volunteers in botanical surveying.

Attending a survey group is an excellent way of honing your plant identification skills. So, if you already have some plant ID skills, and/or are keen to learn, please join the survey team.

Help us record some of the rarer plants around Eynsham that are likely to be threatened by development in the near future.

Based on our NRN principles of building up, over time, a cadre of local people to know and protect the land around us, our experts will help us to identify and record the plants that we don’t know yet. 

This is the second of three botanical workshops, in and around Eynsham.

We recomment wearing appropriate clothes and footwear for the field session. You may wish to bring a notebook and pencil.

Please bring your own drinks - it's looking hot so a water bottle is advised!

Those of you who are not already members of NRN, we'd love you to join (£10 per year) in order to enjoy this workshop and many others for free.

If you'd rather not join just yet, we ask you to pay £15 for this workshop. This is partly because, although we all give our services for free, NRN has significant costs to do what it is doing for our local nature. These workshops are usually oversubscribed and we have found that occasionally people sign up and then don't turn up, depriving someone else of the opportunity.

Please click here and give our local wildlife a present by becoming an NRN member! Not only will you be supporting compost/tool purchase etc. but you will get free access to all our survey workshops and discounted or no rates for workshops that we charge for.

We look forward to sharing some time with you in the Great Outdoors! 

 

Please tell the leader on the day if you would prefer not be photographed.


Featured Speakers

Speaker Dr Camilla Lambrick

Camilla obtained a D.Phil. on the taxonomy of ant-plants or Myrmecophytes, plants that share a mutualistic relationship with a colony of ants.


She worked for BBOWT, and Thames Valley Environmental Records Centre and also helped set up the Oxford Conservation Volunteers, and then the Rare Plants Group of the Ashmolean Natural History Society of Oxfordshire


 




Organizer

Nature Recovery Network & Long Mead Foundation


Date and Time

Sun, May 24, 2026

1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
(GMT+0100) Europe/London

Location

Long Mead Local Wildlife Site

Oxford Road
Swinford OX29 4DU
United Kingdom

Meet at Long Mead barn in our species-rich floodplain hay meadow. Please note there is no parking on site! We invite you to travel by foot, bus or bike if you can. The E1 Bus stops at the Talbot Inn, just outside our gate. We are between the Swinford Toll …

Meet at Long Mead barn in our species-rich floodplain hay meadow.


Please note there is no parking on site!


We invite you to travel by foot, bus or bike if you can. The E1 Bus stops at the Talbot Inn, just outside our gate. We are between the Swinford Toll Bridge and the Talbot Inn (opposite the pub) recogniseable by the row of rusty birds on the gate and a thatch barn in the orchard.


If you need to travel by car please use the Eynsham Sports Pavillion car park (8 mins walk - 1 Oxford Rd, Eynsham, Witney OX29 4HG) or nearby street parking on Wharf Road. 

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Long Mead Local Wildlife Site

Oxford Road
Swinford OX29 4DU
United Kingdom