schools and long mead local wildlife site
We have been been running environmental visits for schools on Long Mead for over 20 years. In the last two years we have been working with the Eynsham Partnership Academy to set up a Nature Recovery Network between 8 local schools.
Lying along the River Thames by the historic Eynsham Toll Bridge and including one of the last remaining of Britain’s ancient watermeadows, Long Mead is a perfect place to feel the countryside as it used to be – buzzing with insects, filled with the perfume of wildflowers and flitting with now rare native birds.
It is a place to play, to learn, to recuperate and also a place to see how we can preserve and enhance our natural environment for the future. In 2013, Long Mead was commended in the Farming and Countryside Education Awards.
Lying along the River Thames by the historic Eynsham Toll Bridge and including one of the last remaining of Britain’s ancient watermeadows, Long Mead is a perfect place to feel the countryside as it used to be – buzzing with insects, filled with the perfume of wildflowers and flitting with now rare native birds.
It is a place to play, to learn, to recuperate and also a place to see how we can preserve and enhance our natural environment for the future. In 2013, Long Mead was commended in the Farming and Countryside Education Awards.
Long Mead offers the opportunity to see a surprisingly wide range of habitats and ways of working with agriculture and the environment in a tiny 25 acre site: functioning hay meadows, fuel coppices, traditional orchards (with the fascinating histories of individual trees) and the attendant skills of pruning, juice-making, coppicing, pollarding, as well as aspects of nature conservation and environmental surveying. The beautiful setting of Long Mead lends itself to painting, photography, poetry and particularly rural crafts.
Long Mead is within 20 minutes of the centre of Oxford and just off the main road yet, standing in the middle of the water meadow, where you are likely to hear the skylarks calling overhead or the mournful cry of the curlew, you feel lost in a rural idyll.
Long Mead is within 20 minutes of the centre of Oxford and just off the main road yet, standing in the middle of the water meadow, where you are likely to hear the skylarks calling overhead or the mournful cry of the curlew, you feel lost in a rural idyll.
We are open to schools and pre-schools, in association with Natural England.
Visits are free and can be tailored entirely to the requirements of the individual group, whether it be learning conservation techniques, nature painting, primary maths in the landscape, catering to special needs or a simple nature walk…
Booking a visit:
In the first instance please email. No dogs please, except guide dogs.
Visits are free and can be tailored entirely to the requirements of the individual group, whether it be learning conservation techniques, nature painting, primary maths in the landscape, catering to special needs or a simple nature walk…
Booking a visit:
In the first instance please email. No dogs please, except guide dogs.