Choppit and Tidyup

4 Goodgymers helped their local community in Bristol
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Dushyant Goel
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Bristol

Sunday 5th October

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A simple one today. Clear a path along the bottom of the embankment that we have previously climbed like mountain goats. More work to do clear brambles but we made a good start. Short report today as I’m going on a plant hunt.

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Royate Hill
Two disused railway embankments linked by a brick viaduct to make a city centre nature reserve

The railway embankment creates a varied local topography with long and short, steep and gentle slopes. The habitats on the site range from limestone flora on the embankment top, to flower rich grassland, developing woodland and scrub on the embankment sides. Species such as ox-eyed daisy, mouse eared chickweed and bee orchid have been recorded at the site. Hedgerows, a stream and an old orchard are also present within the reserve boundary. The embankments were constructed in the early 1870's to form part of the Clifton Extension Railway. They span 450 metres in a shallow curve from Edward Street in the north west, to Clay Bottom to the east, crossing Royate Hill and the Coombe Brook at their centre. The site was compulsorily purchased by the former Avon County Council in 1996, following a five-year high profile campaign by local people to save it from development.

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Dushyant Goel

Mon 6th Oct at 9:04am

I can attest to the mountain goat part. There was a lot of bleating.

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