Planted in the 1990s on an ex-agricultural site, Nightingale Wood is a new community woodland that supports a large variety of wildlife, especially birds.

And if you visit as darkness falls, you may spy the eerie green gleam of glow-worms on the grassland. With both woodlands have been thinned in recent years, thinning will continue, if appropriate at the time, on a five year cycle for conifers and 10 year cycle for broadleaves.The satire was heightened by Gibbons's mockery of purple prose, whereby she marked the most florid and overwritten passages of the book with asterisks, "for the reader's delectation and mirth". Mama is a very calm, kind hearted mum of Hen but when she gets drugged, she does not get to spend time with her daughter unless Henry sneeks into her room near the end of the book. The settlement developed around the 11th century church of St Mary Magdalene, which still has the original walls of the nave, the north and south doorways and the font. Such lines as "my thoughts, like purple parrots / Brood / In the sick light" [88] come dangerously close indeed to the overblown rhetoric she satirized in Cold Comfort Farm: "How like yaks were your drowsy thoughts".

Henrietta moved from London to Hope-house and she misses London so much that when she does something she remembers the times in London.The Bell family also paid for the building of the schoolhouse, completed in 1873 with a bell tower, and the ‘Reading Room, which eventually became the Village Hall. She found the writing overblown and the plotting ridiculous, [25] and decided that her own first novel would be a comic parody of the genre. Overscourt contains almost 50% broadleaf species and approaching 20% conifer species; whilst at Nightingale Wood broadleaves account for three quarters of the trees planted, and only 9% conifer. This means the sites will see an increase in the variety of both native broadleaf species and conifer species being planted.

As her own productivity dwindled and finally ceased altogether, she kept a commonplace book in which she was recording her thoughts and opinions on literature as late as 1988.Gibbons published three novels during the war: The Rich House (1941), Ticky (1942) and The Bachelor (1944). This perhaps could have been mitigated at the time of planting through the use of mixtures and is something that will be introduced in the near future when some areas will be either replanted or underplanted using a more diverse range of species and will be covered in a new Forest Plan to be written in the near future that will ensure a much healthier, diverse and thriving woodland for the future of both wildlife and the community. This book is all about a mystery, where Henrietta finds lots of clues to find out about the evil Dr Hardy and where he is taking her mother. South Marston is not mentioned in the Domesday Book but has Saxon origins, mentioned as Merston in 1204. Explore the wide open areas with your four legged friend, or take some time for yourself within the peaceful broadleaved woodland.