DULWICH UPPER WOOD PROJECT

29th October 2009 to 30th September 2010

This project aims to provide participants with knowledge of environmental conservation techniques and traditional woodland crafts so as to encourage the preservation of the Dulwich Upper Wood (South London) nature reserve site for future generations.

Environmental Conservation Techniques and Traditional Woodland Crafts will include:

• Wildlife surveys/species identification

• Small tree felling/Coppicing

• Hedge Laying
  
• Dead Hedge Creation and Maintenance
• Traditional Wooden Fencing
  
• Glade Maintenance
• Wildlife Pond Maintenance
• Bird and Bat box creation

Site History


The present day composition of Dulwich Upper Wood can be traced back to the Great North Wood (12th to 15th century) and the rapid land use changes in the Crystal Palace area since the mid 1800s.

Within the wood lie two old woodland boundaries – a line of ancient coppiced and pollarded trees and a ditch – marking subdivisions of the Great North Wood.


In 1981, the Dulwich Society along with the Greater London Council and the London Borough of Southwark arranged for the Trust for Urban Ecology (TRUE) to manage the wood as a nature park

(for more information visit TRUE website: http://www.urbanecology.org.uk/index.html)