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Two hour ramble with coffee and croissants breakfast. Meeting at the car park off Bilton Lane, Harrogate HG1 3DH.

£2.50 per person. Booking essential at http://woodlandtrust.org.uk/events

A place that’s greater than the sum of its parts. Nidd Gorge and surrounding landscape, made famous by Rob Cowen’s stunning book Common Ground, is a beautiful urban wilderness. But this ‘edgeland’ and its ancient woodland is now under threat from relief road plans.

The Bilton Conservation Group 2018 Calendar is now available. If you would like a great stocking filler for Christmas please get in touch.

We have kept the price down to £5 and can deliver free across Harrogate District.

Download the PDF for full details of the meeting.

Download the Summer 2017 newsletter here.

Volunteers are urgently wanted to help the Bilton Conservation Group with clearing large patches of Himalayan Balsam in the area of Grange Quarry- (behind Pets at Home/B&Q off the A59 Skipton Road).

Volunteers are urgently wanted to help the Bilton Conservation Group with clearing large patches of Himalayan Balsam in the area of Grange Quarry- (behind Pets at Home/B&Q off the A59 Skipton Road).

Volunteers are urgently wanted to help the Bilton Conservation Group with clearing large patches of Himalayan Balsam in the area of Grange Quarry- (behind Pets at Home/B&Q off the A59 Skipton Road). We are meeting up on 29 July 2017 at 10am and will finish at approximately 12mid-day.

The Great British Clean will be held across the U.K. this March.

Our late and much respected member Ian Wallace was a renowned botanist who had performed many botanical surveys as a volunteer with the National Trust at Fountains Abbey and throughout Nidd Gorge with the Bilton Conservation Group.