Hedgehog Visitors
This picture was taken recently in my garden. This hedgehog has been a constant visitor along with a couple of others over the past few weeks.
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Bilton Beck Bridge – Victim of the November Gales
The Bilton Beck Bridge spanning the Bilton Beck in Nidd Gorge was built by the Nidd Gorge Project; managed by Harrogate Borough Council/Countryside Commission from 1983 – 1992.
The Sex Life of Pteridophytes
Let us venture back to the Palaeozoic Era (about 570 million years ago), at the start of which plant life began.
Nidd Gorge and Knaresborough Forest
The river Nidd takes its name from a Celtic word which is believed to mean ‘the shining one’.
Barber Line Engine
Video showing the Barber Line steam engine
NIDD GORGE ARCHAEOLOGY
Throughout the Nidd Gorge area there is evidence of almost continuous human activity, from pre-history to the 21st century.
Bird Boxing – why do it?
The Bilton Conservation Group has been putting up and maintaining bird boxes throughout Nidd Gorge (Willow Woods, Sir Johns Wood, Bilton Beck Wood and Scotton Banks woodland) almost continuously since 1985.
Spruisty Packhorse Bridge – Community Project 2009 - 2012
Members will recall our joint project with Knox Valley Residents’ Association (2009 – 2012) to lift all the stone setts on the footway and refurbish the oak bollards across Spruisty Bridge and the
