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ASHFORD RIVERSIDE
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Ashford International Passenger Station
KSCP volunteers helped plant a small area outside the
station in November 1999. The area should be good for wildlife and will
contribute to the Ashford Green Corridors.
In 1998 the KSCP installed a huge mural in the station
encouraging people to visit the local countryside. The mural was painted
by local artist Phil Murphy.
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The launch of the Ashford International Passenger Station
mural
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Bucksford Mill
The Environment Agency and a developer agreed to the
enhancement of 80m of riverbank for crayfish in August 1999. The KSCP
installed rocks behind chestnut poles in order to create crevices for this
threatened species.
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Volunteers building crayfish habitat at Bucksford Mill
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The River Great Stour is one of only a few rivers in the
south-east that has a population of the native white clawed crayfish. The
introduced American signal crayfish has decimated our native population
due to a fungus which it carries. The signal crayfish has been introduced
for farming, but fortunately not in the River Stour catchment.
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Beaver Green Infants School
The KSCP helped to create a school wildlife area with
the construction of a pond from May to June 1999. In 1995 volunteers and
schoolchildren planted 200 trees.
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Pond creation at Beaver Green Infants School
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Victoria Park
Twenty riverside deflectors were installed with the help
of the Environment Agency (EA) in 1999. These will improve fish spawning
by moving silt and creating gravelly areas.
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Excavated bay at Victoria Park...
February 1999... |
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With other works that the KSCP, EA and Ashford Borough Council have
carried out, fish habitat is generally good in Ashford, and in many ways
better than rural stretches of the river just below Ashford.
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...and September 2000
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Fish species that might be seen in the river include brown trout,
bullhead, eel, gudgeon, perch, pike, roach, stickleback and stone
loach.
In 1995 the National Rivers Authority and the KSCP excavated bays along
the River Great Stour to enhance riverside habitat.
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Bucksford Manor
A log pile otter holt was constructed by KSCP volunteers
in 1997.
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Queen Mother Park, Henwood
KSCP volunteers help to plant some of the 2000 trees on
this site in 1994.
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Watercress Fields/Victoria Park
The first project that the KSCP led was the planting of
2000 trees on this site in November 1992, with the newly formed Ashford
Conservation Volunteers. In 1994 volunteers also planted 60m of hedge.
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Trees planted in 1992 on Watercress Fields, coming on well
in 2000
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