Dates of Meetings 2008-9

Sunday 12 Oct 2008 10.00am SU 039 857
Webb's Wood
Fungus Foray. Malcolm Storey and Peter Marren
Turn in to Wood Lane off B4042 at Callow Hill. Turn right to the wood and then left into the car park. Morning only.


Saturday 25 October 2008 2.00pm Melksham church hall
Botanising on Italian Volcanoes. An illustrated talk by John Presland A brief look at the floras of Pompeii and Stromboli and a closer look at Mt. Etna.
Melksham Church Hall: SN12 6JX (ST905637) From roundabout near town hall go 50m along High Street in Bath direction. Pass King’s Arms and Grecian façade of United Reform Church on right. Immediately turn right by Nixon & Shaws Opticians into a narrow drive – Watson’s Court – which leads to a small car park and entrance to church hall on right behind church. If full use Pay & Display car park a little further along High Street on left.

Sunday 2 Nov 2008 1.30pm Bentley Wood SU 239 297
Fungus Foray Ted Gange
A joint meeting with local groups and a chance to collect and identify the material.
Bentley Wood – Meet at Livery Gate (SU239297) to the east of the minor road running between East Grimstead and Winterslow. We shall drive further into the wood to the selected sites

Saturday 22 November 2008 2.00pm Urchfont Village Hall
Plantlife’s ‘Important Plant Area’ project. An illustrated talk by Beth Newman
Beth will describe how sites for the Important Plant Areas scheme are identified and mapped
Urchfont Village Hall, Church Lane. SN10 4QT (SU040573) From the B3098 turn north in Urchfont into High St, signed to Potterne Wick. Pass the pond on your right and turn right into Peppercombe Lane at a signboard “Peppercombe and Village Hall”. Then turn right into the car park - space for 20 cars

Saturday 6 December 2008 2.00pm Langford Lakes – Witshire Wildlife Trust Centre
Flowers of Spitzbergen. An illustrated talk by Barbara Last
Langford Lakes Reserve SP3 4NH – The reserve entrance is off Duck Street (SU037370) – immediately south of the bridge over the river. Duck Street runs south from Steeple Langford to Hanging Langford.

Saturday 10 January 2009 2.00pm Melksham Church Hall
The Flora of Essex and Research into Black Poplars inNorth Wilts. An illustrated talk by Ken Adams
Melksham Church Hall: SN12 6JX (ST905637) From roundabout near town hall go 50m along High Street in Bath direction. Pass King’s Arms and Grecian façade of United Reform Church on right. Immediately turn right by Nixon & Shaws Opticians into a narrow drive – Watson’s Court – which leads to a small car park and entrance to church hall on right behind church. If full use Pay & Display car park a little further along High Street on left.

Saturday 24 January 2009 2.00pm Crown Centre, Devizes
Monitoring SSSI Downland for Natural England - Anne, Sue, Richard, Joy and Sharon
Crown Centre, Devizes. SN10 1BL (SU003614). Please use public parking. The centre is at 39 St John’s Street and is accessed via a narrow entrance approximately opposite the entrance to Wine Street. The meeting room is on the first floor
Saturday 7 February 2009 10.30am Bentley Wood SU 239 297
Woodland Mosses – fieldwork and ID. Leader: Sharon Pilkington.
There will be a fire and hot drinks in the barn and an opportunity to examine and label specimens. If you have a binocular microscope which uses natural light, please bring it if you can.

Saturday 28 February 2009 2.00pm Marlborough College
Sawfly identification and habitats. An illustrated talk by John Grearson
Marlborough College Science laboratories (SU183687). 120m west of the bridge over the A4 at the west end of Marlborough. Turn south in to the car park. The laboratory is immediately behind the large Memorial Hall

Saturday 7 March 2009 2.00pm St Andrew’s Church Hall, Devizes
AGM followed by ‘Yorkshire Revisited’ – memories of our visit in 2008.
St Andrew’s Church Hall, Devizes. SN10 1NJ (SU005612) The Hall is next to the Church, which is in Long Street, the opposite side to the Museum and nearer to the town centre. Park in the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust car park, which is behind the Church

Saturday 21 March 2009
Tim Wilkins An Introduction to Lichen Identification and Ecology
A joint field meeting with Plantlife members. Venue TBA near Salisbury. Details at AGM, by phone or in Plantlife events programme.

Saturday 6 June 2009 – Wed 10 June 2009
June 7 – 9 in the field.
Devon - organiser Anne Appleyard
Summer Residential Field Visit to Totnes area, South Devon
Please return the reply slip sent to members before Dec 1st if you would like to come