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Mar 2022
New woodland with 2,000 trees planted in Bilton
Over 2,000 trees have been planted on the edge of Nidd Gorge to form a new woodland for people to enjoy.
Bilton Conservation Group was helped by employees from Belzona Polymerics as well as members of Knox Valley Residents’ Association and the Scout movement to plant the trees at Bilton Fields during February.
Sixteen native broadleaf species were planted, including a specimen of the rare wild service tree.
The woodland is sponsored and paid for by the Society of the Holy Child Jesus, a Catholic congregation of women that was founded in 1846.
Scout volunteers planting a tree
Four nuns, representing the order, came from Oxford and France to help on the second day.
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Bilton Conservation Group has planted over 20,000 trees in Bilton Fields since 1985.
Keith Wilkinson, of Bilton Conservation Group, said:
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