4 PREENSHEAD -This Daughter moved to Severn Gorge Traditional Cache
4 PREENSHEAD -This Daughter moved to Severn Gorge
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Welcome to the Severn Gorge Countryside Trust Geocaches
"This cache came from the "Mother Cache" in North Wales.
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The Severn Gorge Countryside Trust manages 260 hectares of land on a 999 year lease, which includes over fifty per cent of the land within the Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site which was the seat of the Industrial Revolution.
The Severn Gorge Countryside Trust works to balance the conservation and enhancement of landscape, wildlife and public access, and also to reinforce the cultural importance of the special areas under its management.
All of our landholdings are open to the public to explore and enjoy, and a network of waymarked paths and trails have been established through the woods and meadows of Ironbridge, Coalbrookdale, Jackfield, Coalport, Madeley, Barrow and Broseley.
Preenshead
Preenshead is the only area of land actually owned by the Trust, the others being managed on a long lease. This 4.8 hectare (12 acre) wood was purchased in 1997.
Records show there has been woodland here for hundreds of years, clues to which are wild garlic (ramsons), wood anemones, bluebell and the rare wood barley, all species associated with old woodland. The area is also home to a relatively high population of breeding bullfinch.
Despite its ancient pedigree, the wood today contains few trees more than 60 years old, a state of affairs brought about by an almost complete felling during the 1940s. Preenshead is adjacent to the Severn Valley Way (a former railway line and now a major walking and cycling route) and close to the village of Jackfield. Although the woodland itself is difficult to access, surrounding footpaths can be explored in some detail in the Trust's publication: Jackfield & Coalport: Five Historic Guided Walks.
Jackfield & Coalport: Five Historic Guided Walks.
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Snyyra ZBFFL GERR