Botanical Survey Workshop

June 28, 2026

Long Mead Barn / Community Meadows around Eynsham
Oxford Road
Swinford OX29 4DU

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Attending a botanical survey training 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. 

We will be surveying Changeable Furlongs - one of our restoration meadows that we distributed green hay on last year. Catriona has noticed this week that some interesting things are coming up and so we’ll be setting out quadrants to record them before the hay cut.

See LOCATION on the right for directions and a map.

Conservationist and meadows specialist Catriona Bass will also be joined by Joe Grainger-Hull, local botanist and senior ecologist at independent ecological consultancy BSG Ecology.

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

Please wear appropriate clothes and footwear for the field session. You may wish to bring a notebook and pencil.

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.

This event is part of Great Big Green Week - Supported by Oxfordshire County Council.


Featured Speakers

Speaker Catriona Bass




Organizer

Nature Recovery Network & Long Mead Foundation


Date and Time

Sun, June 28, 2026

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

Location

Long Mead Barn / Community Meadows around Eynsham

Oxford Road
Swinford OX29 4DU

Meet at Long Mead Local Wildlife Site at 1.30pm Meet point: Long Mead Local Wildlife Site Google maps link: https://maps.app.goo.gl/E1qemHJho4q3b45t8 What3words: ///vowing.keeps.cackling Please travel by foot, bus or bike if you can. The E1 Bus stops at the Talbot Inn, just outside our gate and the S1 bus stop in the village …

Meet at Long Mead Local Wildlife Site at 1.30pm





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Please travel by foot, bus or bike if you can. The E1 Bus stops at the Talbot Inn, just outside our gate and the S1 bus stop in the village is a short walk away.


If you need to travel by car please use the Eynsham Sports Pavilion car park (1 Oxford Rd, Eynsham, Witney OX29 4HG). 


Long Mead Barn is between the Swinford Toll Bridge and the Talbot Inn (opposite the pub) recognisable by the row of rusty birds on the gate and a thatch barn in the orchard.


Changeable Furlongs community meadows are on the same side as the pub, walk from the Talbot car park along the footpath alongside Siemens factory and across Duke's Meadow.


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Long Mead Barn / Community Meadows around Eynsham

Oxford Road
Swinford OX29 4DU