Meeting Reports June 2025

Leaders : Colin Howes & Jo Carreck
Other Attendees : 
Meet :  1.30 pm off Stoops Lane DN4 7PH (SE 612 006).
Duration of meeting : about 2 hours. Distance ¾ mile max.
Aims: Bolton Field, a one-time sand Quarry, wedged between Bawtry Road (the old A1 of Coaching Days, Dick Turpin and all that) and the ancient Stoops Lane (which since the 1960s became an artery of local urban development), so why is this dog-walk and kick-about futter field of any interest to the Nats ? … Well Geoff and Jo Carreck certainly found it of interest, discovering some remarkable plants, putting this mere field on the map as a potential local wildlife site.

The Local Authority has planted groups of broadleaved trees, leaving strategic areas un-mown in summer, allowing wild plants to flower and set seed, mow access paths through the vegetation, and are keen to find out, from us, what biodiversity has moved in.

Take photographs of anything you find of interest, bring identification guides and try to list the species you see, and we shall see what we can discover.