Whalley Forest Garden started in the summer of 2011 when Chris and Doreen Gathercole first set eyes on the site. A featureless and degraded field is now a wonderful wild area with rapidly-maturing fruit trees. The Forest Garden was designed and planted in 2011 by Chris Gathercole and Trevor Wynne.
The site was further developed by Trevor Wynne and Martin Nuttall.
Project founderr Chris Gathercole says 'This is a great site for a forest garden - about two acres of open field and woodland on a south facing slope. We' planted the site for planting and creatied a couple of ponds but your ideas for how we develop it further will be most welcome.'
Directions
By road/footpath from the centre of Whalley
Travelling towards Clitheroe, turn left at the mini roundabout (to Mitton and the Railway Station)
Go past the station entrance (on your right) and under the railway bridge.
Turn right immediately after the bridge, take the left fork towards the Tennis Club but go past the club house towards the cricket field. Go past the cricket ground (now on your left). The forest garden is dead ahead, park up before the trees. Meet by the shipping container/tool store.
By train from Blackburn and Manchester: walk down the ramp and when you reach the road, turn right and you are at the entrance to the cricket ground. Then follow the directions above. From Clitheroe: turn right once you are out of the station, walk down the road until you meet the main road, turn right under the bridge and immediately right again into the playing fields. Then follow the directions above.
Address
At the back of Whalley Cricket Club
BB7 9RH.
More location details
Latitude/Longitude (N/W) 53.8268, -2.4112
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