* The spring clean group with the final pile of rubbish collected in Trevor.
Residents of Trevor and surrounding
communities have teamed up to give the woodland of Rhos y Coed a spring clean.
The woodland has been subject to some historic fly
tipping and all sorts of rubbish was found from car bonnets to garden pots.
The
full extent of the litter problem was brought to light following the creation
of a new path through the woodland linking the community centre up with the
canal and enabling people to get up close to the massive meteorite-like
clinker, a piece of historical fly tipping in itself, dating from as far back
as 1870 and a relic of the local iron industry.!
The Clinker Path as it is now known and some new trees
which were planted by the Trevor cubs and beavers a few weeks ago were both
made possible through the Our Picturesque Landscape (OPL) National Lottery
Heritage Fund Project as part of their remit to improve access to the
picturesque countryside.
Following the discovery of the rubbish the OPL team
contacted Keep Wales Tidy, a charity working across the whole of Wales to
protect our environment for now and for the future, to organise the community
Spring Clean event as part of their annual Spring Clean Cymru which is a
nationwide campaign encouraging people across Wales to get together to help
clean up our beautiful Cymru.
A total of 10 local people, including four children gave
up their Saturday morning to help tidy up the woods and improve them for both
people and wildlife and by the end a total of 20 bags of rubbish and other
larger items were collected.
If you feel inspired by these local environmental
heroes and want to do your bit there are lots of other Spring Clean Cymru
events going on until April 23rd, visit the Keep Wales Tidy website
for more information.
Our Picturesque Landscape Project centres on the
landscape of the Dee Valley and the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal World
Heritage Site.
It takes the theme of inspirational journeys that have been, and
continue to be, a feature of the area which is cut by the canal, Telford's A5
and the River Dee. Visitors have drawn inspiration from this beautiful valley
in art and poetry since the 18th century and it continues to draw tourists in
search of the sublime.
Our Picturesque Landscape Project is predominantly
funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. It is a partnership project developed
by the Clwydian Range and Dee Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty,
Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal World Heritage Site, Denbighshire County
Council, Wrexham County Borough Council, Shropshire Council, The Canal &
River Trust, Natural Resources Wales, Cadw, Cadwyn Clwyd, Aqueducks (Friends of
the World Heritage Site) and the Friends of the Clwydian Range and Dee Valley.
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