Botanical Survey Workshop

June 28, 2026

Swinford Meadows - on the towpath, upstream of Eynsham Lock


United Kingdom

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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 Swinford Meadows - an ancient meadow currently being restored by Nature Recovery Network and Oxfordshire Preservation Trust. See LOCATION on the right for directs 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

Swinford Meadows - on the towpath, upstream of Eynsham Lock



United Kingdom

We will meet at 1.30pm at Swinford Meadow.  Please walk, cycle or use public transport if possible The S1 bus serves Eynsham (25 min walk) The E1 bus stops at Swinford Bridge (10 min walk) If coming from Eynsham, the safest route is to take the footpath to Eynsham Lock …

We will meet at 1.30pm at Swinford Meadow


Please walk, cycle or use public transport if possible

The S1 bus serves Eynsham (25 min walk)

The E1 bus stops at Swinford Bridge (10 min walk)

If coming from Eynsham, the safest route is to take the footpath to Eynsham Lock through the Neyotts Meadow (opposite Long Mead off the Oxford Road) and then follow the towpath up stream. This route is marked by orange dots on the map. It takes 25 minutes from Eynsham Church.



We don't recommend walking over the toll bridge as both the road and the pavement is extremely narrow. 


Parking: it’s will also be possible to park in Swinford top field here https://maps.app.goo.gl/c3vwgbgyn3MEnNn16

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  • Registration
    £15.00
    (ends 06/29/2026)
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