Wyggeston Wood - Maintenance

The Rotary Club regularly instigates work parties to assist in the maintenance of the wood......

WORK PARTIES SCHEDULED TO TAKE PLACE in 2026 

March 21st & 30th 
Maintenance work involves coppicing and shaping hazel stakes.

HISTORY OF WYGGESTON WOOD.

The Charity of Wyggeston’s Hospital acquired approximately 6 acres of scruffy soggy pasture just south of
Kilby back in 2009, right at the end of the year. The plan - to plant a wood for the public to enjoy, to mark the 500th year of the Charity rapidly approaching in 2013.

The next 12 months were spent fencing, ditching, felling, pruning and preparing for planting.
At the start of the next autumn planting season a motley crew of volunteers and trustees, various Lords, Ladies and dignitaries donned their wellies, bent their backs and dug in.
500 trees were planted including field maple, oaks, wytch hazels, common hazel, ash, birch, rowan and a few specials for those of an arboricultural bent to spot. An Avenue of Limes was put in to impress ourselves, even the dreaded crack willow had a role, to dry out the boggiest bits where we worried about roots.

The wood opened, in the Spring of 2013 with much ceremony. 

Over the next 10 years, friends, trustees, rotarians, family, even reformed villains, all got roped in by Andrew or Duncan Lucas to help, prune, stake, mow, wade, film, photograph and dig! The volunteers, maintaining the wood, have been thanked many times; in person, online, by correspondence, by handshakes, by chilli and even by sausage and bacon cobs!