Wickets Brood Morris Men coppicing hazel for new staves.

As part of the handover to H&MWT, their Green Team have been working at Gobions. Here is an example of their coppicing.

A great year for bluebells in Gobions

A few amateur photos. More to be added from the experts shortly

A few shots of the wood at 09:30 on Sunday 19th November 2006

With the recent purchase of an industrial mower, we are able to keep the pathways clear with far less effort. We hope everyone enjoys the easier access this machine provides.

Gobions looked wonderful after the snowfall of Wednesday night 28 January. All schools had a 'Snow Day' on the Thursday and many took the chance to enjoy the woodland.

The team was out planting holly bushes south of the old bridge, minus Bernard, who was unable to join in.

More than 60 friends of Gobions Woodland Trust gathered at the Brookmans Park Hotel on Saturday night, June 21, 2003, to pay a tribute to Michael Jonas MBE. Michael was recognised in last week’s Queen’s honours list for his 'Services to Nature Conservation in Hertfordshire.' He was the driving force behind the local community’s purchase of Gobions Wood in 1985, which has been enjoyed by the local community ever since.

Views of the woods in early May 2003

A number of plaques are positioned around Gobions Woodland. They have been erected by Gobions Woodland Trust following requests from local supporters and organisations. This is a selection of the plaques along with pictures taken close to where they are placed. This photo gallery is in four parts to speed download.

Views of the woods in April 2003 including some of the workparty undertaking remedial work on one of the lagoon dams.

On Sunday, February 23, 2003, a team of 17 volunteers turned out to plant an avenue of oak, alder and holly in Gobions to mark the millennium. The trees, six oak, four alder and six holly now form an avenue running north to south across the upper Leach Field. The following is a picture gallery of the event. All images have been heavily compressed to assist download speeds.

On Sunday October 27, 2002, winds of up to 80 miles per hour hit the south east of England and swept through Gobions Woodland tearing down many trees and ripping off many branches. These pictures were taken shortly before two volunteers from Gobions Woodland Trust cleared the paths of the debris left behind by the strong winds.

Following our first Heritage Lottery Fund grant of £22,200 towards formulating a restoration and management plan for Gobions Wood, consultants, Landscape Design Associates, produced reports on the history and ecology of our land. The two sketch maps,

A short survey of flowering plants and shrubs was undertaken in Gobions on April 16, 2002. A walk from the Gobions Open Space car park to Gobions woods recorded 49 species in flower. The study was undertaken as part of a Workers' Educational Association (WEA) class run by Brenda Harold. The sketches above are taken from the links provided from the the Vascular Plant Image Gallery to the collection of images from C.A.M. Lindman's Flora with kind permission from Project Runeberg (Sweden). Copyright for all processed images belongs to Dr. Gerhard Keuck, 1999. The photographs are copyright of Thomas Schoepke.

Various views of the woods, mainly of bluebells. Includes some photos of the workparty laying paths.

The following pictures were reproduced from glass slides belonging to the Potters Bar & District Historical Society. They were donated to the North Mymms Local History Society (NMLHS) which offered them to the Brookmans Park Newsletter to put online so that more people could enjoy them. The captions are exactly as they appear on the original glass slides.

Every year a survey of birds, seen in a 10 km area around Brookmans Park, is compiled by Rupert Pyrah and published in the Gobions Woodland Trust Friends'Annual Report. The illustrations on these pages are from Morris's British Birds of 1891.

The butterflies on this page and three more were recorded in Gobions Woodland during the 1999 Butterfly Survey Field visits.

Gobions Wood is one of the best sites in Hertfordshire for fungi, but because some fungi are poisonous for humans to eat and perhaps also because they seem to appear overnight, they receive a bad press, as do nocturnal animals like bats and badgers. Many fungi thrive on dead wood and, perhaps for this reason, when they appear on living trees it is assumed that they are harmful to the tree, when they are in fact just ‘doing their own thing’ and playing a vital role in the ecosystem. Here is a collection of illustrations of fungi seen in Gobions taken from THE OBSERVER BOOK OF COMMON FUNGI by E M Wakefield
Copyright (c) Frederick Warne Co., 1954
Reproduced by kind permission of Frederick Warne & Co