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  • Behind the Scenes at Greys Court Woodland, Online

    In this National Trusts video, you’ll meet Leo Jennings, Area Ranger at Greys Court near Henley in Oxfordshire. You’ll learn more about how and why the Trust fells trees, and how it benefits nature in the surrounding area. You’ll also get an insight into all the different jobs rangers do at the National Trust: from managing habitats to helping out the house team now and again. Join Leo as he explains how the Greys Court rangers have been using wood from the estate to create a boardwalk, which will open up new areas for visitors to explore, and improve accessibility for those who find it tricky to navigate the muddier areas of the woodland. You’ll also hear from volunteers about the work they’re doing to help out on the project. We protect and care for places so people and nature can thrive. Everyone can get involved, everyone can make a difference. Nature, beauty, history. For everyone, for ever. The five minute YouTube video may be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTtGljPbkPY

  • Tuesday, April 13, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm – Oxfordshire’s Lost Wonders: Enstone and Hanwell and the Development of 17th C Science in the Garden, Online

    In the seventeenth century Oxfordshire was home to two remarkable gardens that shared a reliance on technology to indulge the enthusiasms of their owners and impress their visitors. The Enstone Marvels are well known, and recent archaeological research has been able to document some extraordinary survivals. The great gardens at Hanwell were the site of a community termed the New Atlantis and excavations there have uncovered remains of a ‘House of Diversion’ together with a unique assemblage of terracotta gardens urns from the period.

    This April 13 talk beginning at 5 pm Eastern is part of the Garden Trust’s online series exploring archaeology with a 17th century bias. This ticket is for this individual session and costs £5, and you may purchase tickets for other individual sessions or you may purchase a ticket for the entire course of 5 sessions at a cost of £20 via the link here.

    Stephen Wass is a researcher, about to complete his D. Phil. on the subject of seventeenth-century water gardens. In addition, he works as a commercial archaeologist. In this capacity most of his projects involve historic gardens and he is currently occupied with a series of archaeological investigations connected with the latest programme of restoration at Stowe Landscape Gardens near Buckingham. He is also working to set up a new research programme alongside the Oxfordshire Gardens Trust into the ‘lost’ Tudor and Jacobean gardens in the county.