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Green Dordon!

Welcome to our new Environment section. Here you can find the latest news about green issues affecting Dordon!

Warwickshire County Council Draft Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plan

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Warwickshire County Council have produced a plan for local cycle and walking ways, and want you to have a say in it!

Click here to see the proposed plans for North Warwickshire!

It's good news for Dordon, as it includes several of the footpaths and cycleways we highlighted in our Neighbourhood Plan, including the Coffin Trail, much loved by the residents of Dordon - it's great to see the County Council thinking along the same lines!

Dordon's own Autumn watch!

Have a look at the footage and photos below, to see some examples of the wildlife living in the woodlands and wild spaces in our Parish!
Many thanks to Paul Fulleylove and Davina Ridley for sharing the images and footage with us! 
Free trees for Schools and Communities! Check out this link to see an exciting new initiative from the Woodland Trust!
 

Tree Planting at Freasley

30/07/2021
Next year in commemoration of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee a tree will be planted on Freasley Common. It seems that Freasley has quite a tradition of commemorative tree planting. An Oak tree was planted for one of Queen Victoria’s Jubilees (in either 1887 or 1897).
Another oak tree was planted in 1935 to celebrate George V’s Silver Jubilee. This was widely reported in the Tamworth Herald. In May the village was decorated with red, white, and blue bunting and a “meat tea” was provided for the villagers. There were donkey rides for the children and Tug o’ War competitions for men and women. The evening ended with a bonfire and fireworks.
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Tamworth Herald May 18th 1935
Later that year in November an oak tree was planted.
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Tamworth Herald 30th November 1935.
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Many thanks to Andrew Dodson for taking this picture of the oak tree planted most likely for George V’s Silver Jubilee.
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Two years later in November 1937 another tree was planted for the Coronation of George VI; although briefly mentioned in the Tamworth Herald no other details could be found.
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A beautiful Copper Beech marks the Coronation of the Queen in 1953.
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Many thanks to Andrew Dodson for the photo.
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If you are in the area this beautiful and historic common, now under the care of the Parish Council, is well worth a visit.
 

The Great Dordon Birdwatch!

14/06/2021
When you next visit one of the green spaces in our village, look out for some of Dordon’s most colourful avian residents! We are lucky to have such a wide variety of birdlife living on our doorstep.
Hopefully the pictures below, of some of the species of birds which have been spotted in Long Street Recreation Ground, will help you to identify our feathered friends. If you hover over the pictures, you will see the names of the birds. See how many you can spot in the hedges and trees around the village!
Many thanks to Adam Archer whose help has been invaluable.

...and also many thanks to the keen-eyed birdwatcher who spotted that our original photograph of a "Blackcap" was in fact a Willow Tit!
Goldcrest
Songthrush
Male Blackbird
Pied Wagtail
Common Whitethroat
Common Chiffchaff
Blackcap
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We believe in Recycling!
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One of the best examples of this is our amazing professional grade kitchen. Although it was a costly enterprise, in fact we got a bargain thanks to a brilliant idea of Councillor Carmel Morson. We took a perfectly good commercial grade kitchen from the Adult Learning Centre in the Shortwoods that would have been scrapped and installed it at the village hall!
Obviously, we had to pay for its removal from the Shortwoods, ripping out our old kitchen, which was not fit for purpose, rewiring, replumbing, fitting new wall coverings and making sure everything was up to new Health and Safety Standards. However, what we now have is one of the best kitchens you will find in any village hall. Over the pandemic it has been put to good use providing meals for the vulnerable and isolated. Now we are reopening, and it is ready for hire!
It's great to think that perfectly good and expensive fixtures were saved and put to use again.

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Great News!
14/05/2021
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Finally... after two years, our iconic oak tree in the middle of Dordon Common now has a Tree Preservation Order (TPO) protecting it for future generations living in Dordon!
​Many thanks to Andy Watkins, Green Spaces Officer for North Warwickshire Borough Council, who came out in the rain in 2019 to survey this tree, and has supported us with advice throughout this lengthy process.
Dordon Parish Council
​Dordon Village Hall
Browns Lane
Dordon
Tamworth
B78 1TL

David Reilly, Locum Clerk to the Council
Tel: 07770 704617
​Email: dordonpc@outlook.com

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