Leafield Community Woodland
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Our Community Woodland is on Fairspear Road in Leafield, Oxfordshire (grid reference SP313155). We maintain the Woodland at monthly workparties and arrange regular educational events.
Dry path into the Woodland!
December 14, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Dry path into the Woodland!
Apologies, our next Woodland Workparty will be on Saturday, 10 January, 11am - 1pm. Everyone welcome and refreshments provided.
December 13, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Apologies, our next Woodland Workparty will be on Saturday, 10 January, 11am - 1pm. Everyone welcome and refreshments provided.
December Workparty: 6 volunteers planted hawthorn and hazel whips, started spreading wood chips on the path, cleared the ditch, and started trimming an archway at the glade viewpoint, before coffee and mince pies. Our next Workparty is on 11 January, 11am - 1pm, weather permitting. Everyone welcome.
December 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
December Workparty: 6 volunteers planted hawthorn and hazel whips, started spreading wood chips on the path, cleared the ditch, and started trimming an archway at the glade viewpoint, before coffee and mince pies. Our next Workparty is on 11 January, 11am - 1pm, weather permitting. Everyone welcome.
Woodland Workparty tomorrow - 11am-1pm. We plan to bring along barrows to spread wood chippings on the paths, & plant hawthorn / hazel whips. We also hope to cut back ivy from the sunken arch now obscuring the glade viewpoint - spades or shovels, secateurs, rakes and gloves useful. Everyone welcome.
December 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Woodland Workparty tomorrow - 11am-1pm. We plan to bring along barrows to spread wood chippings on the paths, & plant hawthorn / hazel whips. We also hope to cut back ivy from the sunken arch now obscuring the glade viewpoint - spades or shovels, secateurs, rakes and gloves useful. Everyone welcome.
Long lengths of horizontal deadwood have been left to provide a habitat for fungi and insect larvae, and a place for frogs and toads to hide.
December 4, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Long lengths of horizontal deadwood have been left to provide a habitat for fungi and insect larvae, and a place for frogs and toads to hide.
Leafield Community Woodland is open again. JAG Trees have pollarded 1 mature ash, and removed deadwood from a further 3. They also felled 9 young ashes suffering from Ash Dieback, allowing more light to reach neighbouring oaks. Trafalgar Oak was pollarded, following severe damage by squirrels.
December 4, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Leafield Community Woodland is open again. JAG Trees have pollarded 1 mature ash, and removed deadwood from a further 3. They also felled 9 young ashes suffering from Ash Dieback, allowing more light to reach neighbouring oaks. Trafalgar Oak was pollarded, following severe damage by squirrels.
Leafield Community Woodland will be closed for tree surgery work on 2-3 December.
November 26, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Leafield Community Woodland will be closed for tree surgery work on 2-3 December.
Our next Workparty is on Saturday, 13 December, 11am - 1pm, weather permitting. Everyone welcome and refreshments provided.
November 8, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Our next Workparty is on Saturday, 13 December, 11am - 1pm, weather permitting. Everyone welcome and refreshments provided.
October WP - We also moved some of the knapweeds from the wild flower patch out into the wider glade, sowed Ramsons along the Tump edge of the Woodland, by the gates and glade, and planted a few acorns, sourced from the Savernake Forest, Sherwood Forest and Batsford Arboretum.
November 8, 2025 at 2:50 PM
October WP - We also moved some of the knapweeds from the wild flower patch out into the wider glade, sowed Ramsons along the Tump edge of the Woodland, by the gates and glade, and planted a few acorns, sourced from the Savernake Forest, Sherwood Forest and Batsford Arboretum.
October Workparty - 6 volunteers cut back low branches along the outside of the hazel coppice, including the trees grown from seed by Leafield schoolchildren. We reduced the height of hawthorn around the small cherry tree, to allow it more light and space.
November 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
October Workparty - 6 volunteers cut back low branches along the outside of the hazel coppice, including the trees grown from seed by Leafield schoolchildren. We reduced the height of hawthorn around the small cherry tree, to allow it more light and space.
October Workparty: 7 volunteers cut and raked grass from the glade today, and planted 100 bluebell bulbs. Our next Workparty is on Saturday 8 November, 11am - 1pm, weather permitting. Everyone welcome and refreshments provided.
October 11, 2025 at 8:34 PM
October Workparty: 7 volunteers cut and raked grass from the glade today, and planted 100 bluebell bulbs. Our next Workparty is on Saturday 8 November, 11am - 1pm, weather permitting. Everyone welcome and refreshments provided.
Workparty this Saturday, 9am to 11am, weather permitting. We plan to plant some native bluebells and cut the grass in the glade - gloves, spades and rakes useful.
October 7, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Workparty this Saturday, 9am to 11am, weather permitting. We plan to plant some native bluebells and cut the grass in the glade - gloves, spades and rakes useful.
Our next Workparty will be on Saturday, 11 October, 11am - 1pm, weather permitting. Everyone welcome and refreshments provided.
September 13, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Our next Workparty will be on Saturday, 11 October, 11am - 1pm, weather permitting. Everyone welcome and refreshments provided.
September Workparty: not much tidying up to do at this time of year, so 6 volunteers inspected the trees and enjoyed coffee and biscuits in the sunshine. We made a list of winter jobs to be completed, as we will be leaving the hazel coppice to grow until November 2026.
September 13, 2025 at 1:35 PM
September Workparty: not much tidying up to do at this time of year, so 6 volunteers inspected the trees and enjoyed coffee and biscuits in the sunshine. We made a list of winter jobs to be completed, as we will be leaving the hazel coppice to grow until November 2026.
August Workparty - 5 volunteers cut back overhanging branches from the paths and cleared grass from the wild flower patch. Our next Workparty is on Saturday, 13 September, 11am - 1pm, weather permitting and refreshments provided. Everyone welcome.
August 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM
August Workparty - 5 volunteers cut back overhanging branches from the paths and cleared grass from the wild flower patch. Our next Workparty is on Saturday, 13 September, 11am - 1pm, weather permitting and refreshments provided. Everyone welcome.
Our next Workparty is this Saturday, 9th August, 11am -1pm, weather permitting and refreshments provided. We will be making sure paths are clear, and the wildflower strip will probably need a bit of a sort out - gloves, shears, secateurs, loppers and trowels useful.
August 7, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Our next Workparty is this Saturday, 9th August, 11am -1pm, weather permitting and refreshments provided. We will be making sure paths are clear, and the wildflower strip will probably need a bit of a sort out - gloves, shears, secateurs, loppers and trowels useful.
14 adults and 7 children enjoyed our Bug Hunt, spotting a wide range of bugs and creepy crawlies, including a Forest Bug (and a shy frog).
August 7, 2025 at 10:58 AM
14 adults and 7 children enjoyed our Bug Hunt, spotting a wide range of bugs and creepy crawlies, including a Forest Bug (and a shy frog).
Bug Hunt tomorrow, at Leafield Community Woodland, 11am - 1pm on Saturday, 26th July. Everyone welcome - children must be accompanied by a responsible adult.
(Bug predator photographed at a previous Bug Hunt. Common toads eat slugs, worms, spiders and insects)
(Bug predator photographed at a previous Bug Hunt. Common toads eat slugs, worms, spiders and insects)
July 25, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Bug Hunt tomorrow, at Leafield Community Woodland, 11am - 1pm on Saturday, 26th July. Everyone welcome - children must be accompanied by a responsible adult.
(Bug predator photographed at a previous Bug Hunt. Common toads eat slugs, worms, spiders and insects)
(Bug predator photographed at a previous Bug Hunt. Common toads eat slugs, worms, spiders and insects)
We plan to tidy up the Woodland this Saturday 12th July, 11am -1pm. It's going to be warm and sunny but there is always plenty of shade! Shears, secateurs, loppers, pruning saws and gloves, useful.
July 9, 2025 at 7:38 AM
We plan to tidy up the Woodland this Saturday 12th July, 11am -1pm. It's going to be warm and sunny but there is always plenty of shade! Shears, secateurs, loppers, pruning saws and gloves, useful.
Apologies ... our next Workparty is on Saturday, 12 July, 11am - 1pm. Everyone welcome.
June 16, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Apologies ... our next Workparty is on Saturday, 12 July, 11am - 1pm. Everyone welcome.
4 volunteers cleared overhanging branches from the paths, and enjoyed the sunshine - Marbled white butterfly spotted by the field path, and Meadow browns in the glade.
Our next workparty is on Saturday, 13 July, 11am - 1pm, weather permitting - refreshments provided and everyone welcome.
Our next workparty is on Saturday, 13 July, 11am - 1pm, weather permitting - refreshments provided and everyone welcome.
June 14, 2025 at 1:18 PM
4 volunteers cleared overhanging branches from the paths, and enjoyed the sunshine - Marbled white butterfly spotted by the field path, and Meadow browns in the glade.
Our next workparty is on Saturday, 13 July, 11am - 1pm, weather permitting - refreshments provided and everyone welcome.
Our next workparty is on Saturday, 13 July, 11am - 1pm, weather permitting - refreshments provided and everyone welcome.
June Workparty this Saturday, 14th June 11am -1pm. We plan to tidy up the woodland, cutting back foliage from walkways / viewpoints and weeding the wild flower patch - gloves, shears, loppers, secateurs and trowels, useful.
(Red campions in the Woodland this week)
(Red campions in the Woodland this week)
June 11, 2025 at 7:53 AM
June Workparty this Saturday, 14th June 11am -1pm. We plan to tidy up the woodland, cutting back foliage from walkways / viewpoints and weeding the wild flower patch - gloves, shears, loppers, secateurs and trowels, useful.
(Red campions in the Woodland this week)
(Red campions in the Woodland this week)
Join our Bug Hunt at Leafield Community Woodland, 11am - 1pm on Saturday, 26th July, weather permitting. Everyone welcome - children must be accompanied by a responsible adult.
(Roesel's bush cricket photographed at a previous Bug Hunt)
(Roesel's bush cricket photographed at a previous Bug Hunt)
June 7, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Join our Bug Hunt at Leafield Community Woodland, 11am - 1pm on Saturday, 26th July, weather permitting. Everyone welcome - children must be accompanied by a responsible adult.
(Roesel's bush cricket photographed at a previous Bug Hunt)
(Roesel's bush cricket photographed at a previous Bug Hunt)
Our Community Woodland is open to visitors every day, unless closed for tree surgery, or other major maintenance work.
May 29, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Our Community Woodland is open to visitors every day, unless closed for tree surgery, or other major maintenance work.
Our tree planting project began in 1997, with the aim of planting trees in our Parish. This idea grew into Leafield Community Woodland. Money was raised by villagers to purchase the land, and trees were grown from local seeds by Leafield school children.
May 29, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Our tree planting project began in 1997, with the aim of planting trees in our Parish. This idea grew into Leafield Community Woodland. Money was raised by villagers to purchase the land, and trees were grown from local seeds by Leafield school children.