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I think my very favourite part of Stoke Park is the orchard, which lies on the south eastern flank of Purdown, in the south of the estate. As you step out from the shade behind the wall that separates Stoke Read More

We’re in the news! Our dew pond restoration work has been written about on the Bristol Mayor’s blog, the BBC News website and the Bristol Post. We’re restoring two dew ponds in Stoke Park. One in the Pale Plantation and Read More

This December I was lucky enough be one of 16 volunteers who spent a day with Chris and Tina from the Rural Skills Hub learning the centuries old craft of hedge laying. More information about which hedges we are laying Read More

Written by Nicky Hodges, Stoke Park volunteer and member of Bristol Naturalists’ Society. All images taken by Dylan Peters, wildbristol.uk Invertebrates are numerous and varied. These are all the creatures that don’t have a backbone (mammals, birds and other larger Read More

Volunteering sessions in Stoke Park are every Thursday morning, and the first Saturday of the month. We cover a lot of things in those sessions. It’s a big park, and there is a lot that needs doing. Here’s a summary Read More

Thursday 13th October 2022 From October onwards, we clear laurel from the woodlands in Stoke Park, following the embargo over spring and summer due to nesting birds. Focus has been on Long Wood in the north east of the Park Read More