As part of routine maintenance, BT dispatched a company of tree surgeons recently to remove obstructions around and between two telegraph poles on Kingsford Lane.
After a few phone calls, and a meeting on-site, we agreed the best course of action was to remove to ground level the young oaks which were growing up through the line. This would prevent the need for further maintenance in the short term. It was agreed also to merely reduce the height of some of the hawthorn which was causing an obstruction.
Stepping back from the area of work, there is an obvious line of hawthorn which would’ve once formed a hedged field boundary.
There are the remains of hedgerows in other places at the site, now swamped by young tree growth. Elsewhere, the remains of stone walls are now lost to the same process of ecological succession.
To conserve this remaining hedgerow as a testament to Kinver’s pastoral history, and to create an added ecological niche, we will look to managing this relic hedge over the next few years.
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