Spring Hunt, Maldon, Essex
Sun 2 March 2025
Anne and Dennis Kell
Maldon offers a range of habitats from urban to coastal and should yield a cross-section of overwintering and early spring flowers. Details of starting point, parking etc to be…
Sun 2 March 2025
Anne and Dennis Kell
Maldon offers a range of habitats from urban to coastal and should yield a cross-section of overwintering and early spring flowers. Details of starting point, parking etc to be…
Sun 30 March 2025
Stephen Clarkson
Meet at 10:30 in the car park for Weeting Heath Nature Reserve, Norfolk, IP27 0QF; Grid Ref: TL757881. A donation for parking would be welcomed by the warden. The area we will…
Tue 29 April 2025
Jillian Macready
Meet at 10:30 in Bury St Edmunds, inside the Abbey Gardens, at the Iron Bridge over the River Lark. The nearest town centre car park is Ram Meadow, Cotton Street, IP33 1XT. It is…
Thu 1 May 2025
John Martin
Meet at 10:30, park at Grid Ref: SJ55723627; what3words: ///means.faced.alternate. This is on a side road just off the A49. Prees Heath lies between the A49 and A41 roads to the…
Sat 17 May 2025
John Wakely
Meet at 10:30 at the Maulden Wood car park, Maulden Wood which is accessed via Deadman’s Lay-by off the A6, MK45 2AP; Grid Ref: TL07253942; what3words:…
Sat 17 May 2025
Jackie Hardy
This will be a joint meeting with North Worcestershire Flora Group and the Wild Flower Society. Meet at 10.30 at the Tiddesley Wood Car Park. Tiddesley Wood, Worcestershire…
Thu 29 May 2025
Moira Smith and Moira O’Donnell
A Come and Find Meeting Meet at 10.30 in the free public car park, CR3 5QS; Grid Ref: TQ316567; what3words: ///lame.dairy.hint, at the end of Fox Lane (through the height…
Wed 4 June 2025
Roger Heath-Brown
Meet at 10:30 at the Wheel Orchard car park in Goring, Grid Ref:SU599806; what3words: ///recount.coil.digit. Hartslock is a BBOWT downland reserve with spectac ular views over…
Fri 6 June 2025
Heather Silk
This is a repeat of the Field Meeting offered in 2024 which had to be cancelled due to bad weather and hence a slippery chalk slope. Heather has now realised that there is a path…
Thu 12 June 2025
Steve Porter
Meet at 10:30 in the car park at Chatsworth House, DE45 1PP; what3words: ///unicorns.questions.rests. The kiosk will be aware of our visit. Details of bus and train travel are…
Sat 14 June 2025
Dave Shaw and Julie Clarke
Meet at 10:00 in the visitor car park at Gait Barrows, LA5 0JF. Entrance to car park: Grid Ref: SD47837763; what3words: ///divers.snaps.jetted. Voluntary car parking charges can…
Fri 20 June 2025
Howard Hardy and Pauline Wilson
Meet at 10:30 at the car park, Grid Ref: ST937710; what3words: ///sunk.casino.gentle is at the lock site near Pewsham. Access is from the lane that leads to Chippenham Farm Sales…
Sat 21 June 2025
Marion Chappell
Meet at 10:30 in the Rufford Station Car Park, Rufford, L40 1TB; Grid Ref: SD46731565; what3words: ///refuse.recitals.grudging. This will be a walk of about 3 miles to look…
Mon 23 June 2025
Kathy Meakin and Pauline Wilson
Meet at 10:00 at the Stinchcombe Hill Golf Club car park, GL11 6AQ. More details will be provided later. Facilities available in Club House. This is a meeting with a difference.…
Sat 12 July 2025
Sheila Wynn
Meet for a 10:30 start at the Crosby Leisure Centre, Mariner Road, Crosby, L23 6SX; Grid Ref: SJ307989; what3words: ///weds.camp.seated. Parking at the Leisure Centre is free.…
Sat 12 July 2025
Gareth Bursnall and Priscilla Nobbs
Meet at 10:30 at the Holywell Tea Chalet, King Edward’s Parade, Eastbourne BN20 7XB. This in the Meads area of the town on the lower promenade at the foot of Beachy Head.…
Sat 19 July 2025
Wendy English and Tanya Eyre
Meet at 10.30 in Jugger Howe layby. Parking is free. Latest finish will be 3.30 pm. Postcode: YO22 4QH; Grid Ref: NZ945002; what3words: ///mondays.wimp.rashers. Driving north from…
Thu 24 July 2025
Jane Lowe
Meet at 10:30 at the Moat Pond Car Park, GU8 6LW; Grid Ref: SU899416; what3words: ///final.whisk.slides Thursley NNR is one of Surrey’s largest fragments of heathland, with bog,…
Sat 2 August 2025
Martin Godfrey
Meet at 10:00 at the car park at the end of Wootton Drive. This is just off the A5013, Eccleshall Road, off Junction 14 on the M6, at ST16 1PU; what3words: ///voted.goods.advice.…
Sat 2 August 2025
Owen Fawcett and Sheila Wynn
Meet at 10.30 at the Lowry Statue, next to the Knott End Slipway at the end of Bourne May Road. Grid Ref: SD346485. Parking is free in the adjacent Quail Holme Road Car Park,…
Sat 23 August 2025
Geoffrey Hall
Meet at 10:30 at the Common at the junction of the A205 South Circular Road and Circular Way, SE18 4HR; Grid Ref: TQ431776. Woolwich Common has Sickle Medick Medicago sativa ssp.…
Thu 28 August 2025
Alan Leslie
Meet at 9:30 by the building at the bus stop at the Madingley Road Park and Ride site on the west side of Cambridge, CB3 0EX; Grid Ref: TL425594. We will be heading for sites on…
Sat 30 August 2025
Peter Gateley and Sheila Wynn
Meet at 10:30 at Maghull Station Car Park, Station Road, Maghull, L31 3DE; Grid Ref: SD383015; what3words: ///boast.attend.taker. The station CP is officially for rail users, but…
Sat 13 September 2025
Marion Rider
Meet at 10:30 at the Staple Hill car park, GU24 8TU; Grid Ref: SU974648; what3words: ///impose.search.keys. A late season meeting, as we specifically hope to see the rare Marsh…
Sat 25 October 2025
Sheila Wynn and Julie Clarke
Meet at 10.30 in the parking area outside Shoreside Primary School on Westminster Drive, Ainsdale, PR8 2SB; Grid Ref: SD30691188; what3words: ///unfounded.forced.clouding. It is a…
Sun 26 October 2025
Anne and Dennis Kell
We will revisit the area covered in the Spring Hunt and explore the urban and coastal habitats to see what is still flowering at this late season. Details of starting point,…