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Fromus Valley's medieval history — We have a recently updated, detailed history of the medieval Kelsale Park.  It transports you back to the days when the park was the centrepiece for a family of l...

I took these photos at the weekend — grasses on Meremead,  buttercups and bovines on Newclose, and I think it’s water plantain flowering on the round pond.  

As metal detection by individuals, or with their co-habitees, is now permitted, I've been at Fromus today to detect the soil removed from the ditch in Mere Meadow. Well, not much to report.  One mini...

    Our landscape archaeologist, Guardian John Rainer, has shown that, after the Great Dam was breached so many years ago and most of Roger Bigod's large Pond surged out, his successors dug a d...

Here are some photos I took earlier in the week — apple blossom over the river, oaks coming into leaf, one of the cattle having a good back scratch, and some cuckoo flowers in Mere Meadow.      ...

                                              April 2020                                                        

Dear Friends, I just wanted to let you know that I've been visiting Simpson’s Fromus reserve recently without the necessity of driving.  I cycle to Kelsale Lodge, take the footpath to the top end o...

Today, after being protected against internal parasites and other ills (a subdermal jab in each shoulder), the Trust's core herd of rare breed British White cattle — our placid bull, Drakkar, and th...