The most frequently asked questions about our ownership of Dam Mire Wood Read more
It's been nearly a year since we held our grand opening of Dam Mire Wood, kindly gifted by resident Mike Hambrey and time we gave you an update on what we have been up to. Read more
It was a lovely change to be out with the volunteers in sunshine at Dam Mire Wood on Monday. We worked hard all morning trimming the tops of a hawthorn hedge and were very excited to be joined by Class 3 from Threlkeld School in the afternoon to plant a new 60m hedge. Read more
On the hottest day of the year, our volunteers joined us at Dam Mire Wood in Threlkeld. With lots of breaks for water and shade, we were clearing the grass from around the trees which are now in their second summer. Read more
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This is a two hectare piece of land gifted to Friends of the Lake District by member and local resident Prof Mike Hambrey.
The generous gift of the land makes this Friends of the Lake District’s most northerly piece of land but to enable it to be accessed and enjoyed we now have to build a bridge to cross Kilnhow Beck and create a new path to the land.
Friends of the Lake District was one of the handful of charities to benefit from money gifted to the 'Friends of Blencathra' following the unsuccessful attempt to buy the mountain. We're really pleased that we're able to part-fund this work with that legacy money and put the generous donations to work in the shadow of Blencathra.
We have already been on site working with West Cumbria Rivers Trust and Threlkeld School children to plant over 1000 trees and to install 'leaky dams' which help to slow the flow of water across the land.
We'll be adding regular updates here so do check back to see the progress of the work. We'll be capturing timelapse and drone footage too so that you can keep up to speed with our contractor Dan Boardley as he creates a new path to the land an builds a bridge to cross Kilnhow Beck. We'll also make updates available via our newsletters so do sign up at the foot of this page if you want to receive updates from us.
This week the volunteers were at Dam Mire Wood at Threlkeld. It was a wet, cold and very muddy day and a new task for us… planting wetland plants... which may have appreciated the conditions more than we did! Read more
It is a bumper year for berries on not only the hawthorn trees, but also the alder at Dam Mire Wood. Apparently it's the biggest crop of hawthorn berries or haws as they are called in the last 20 years since records began Read more
Using words written on paper leaves by visitors to our Dam Mire wood opening day, member Johanna Alberti has written this short poem reminding us all about our wonderful day in Threlkeld and how much this wood means to people Read more
On Monday we returned to Dam Mire Wood at Threlkeld for a workparty. What a different place to two weeks ago when we had our grand opening! All was quiet except for the birds singing and insects buzzing. Read more
On a day of spring sunshine, local photographer and filmmaker Terry Abraham and six young photography competition winners from Threlkeld Primary School cut the ribbon on a new bridge over Kilnhow beck and declared Dam Mire Wood open! Read more
Friends of the Lake District wants Dam Mire Wood to be a place the community and public can enjoy. We would love to know what you would like to see on the property and how you would like it to be used. Read more
We are delighted to have received confirmation that our land at Dam Mire Wood in Threlkeld has been registered and included on the Queen’s Green Canopy (QGC) map. A volunteer planting effort of 100 trees at the site makes this our second entry on the Queen’s Green Canopy (QGC) map. Read more
On a dull and drizzly day at Dam Mire Wood in Threlkeld yesterday, hardy volunteers arrived from Keswick, Cockermouth, Mungrisedale and Watermillock to lend a hand and begin the transformation of the two hectare piece of land gifted to Friends of the Lake District by member and local resident Prof Mike Hambrey. Read more
We picked a glorious morning to spend an hour with Mike Hambrey who kindly gifted us Dam Mire Wood to do some hedge planting. Read more
Five hard weeks of work in two minutes! Timelapse footage of the access work carried out by our brilliant contractor 'DB Contracts' at Dam Mire Wood, Threlkeld. Read more
After five hard weeks of work, our contractor Dan finished work on the new access to Dam Mire Wood at Threlkeld today. We are delighted with how the path is coping with all the wet so far. It has been brilliant to be working with DB Contracts and they have done a superb job for us on a difficult site. Read more
Dam Mire Wood Update: Last week really tested our contractor Dan Boardley and colleague Andy due to the severe weather conditions Cumbria experienced. Read more
Dan from DB Contracts (pictured) and Nick worked long hours last week to try and beat the rain forecast. Instead of a muddy highway, the new path now looks like a graded path fitting more naturally into the contours of the banking. Read more
The weather has been kinder this week which has seen Dan and Nick of DB Contracts making great progress with the path works. The line of the path is nearly all cleared and work has focused on getting a hardcore base down. Read more
Following the granting of planning permission and river crossing permits, access work could finally begin on site. Read more