Today we will be helping BBOWT at Inkpen Common, doing scrub clearance, treating stumps to prevent regrowth, cutting some heather to spread in a bare area and having a bonfire.

Inkpen Common is about a mile and three quarters from the centre of Kintbury. If you’re coming into Kintbury from the A4, turn left off the High Street into Inkpen Road and follow it up the hill, veering right where Laylands Green joins the road from your left. About half a mile further on, you pass a churchyard on your left, just before a staggered crossroads with Forbury Lane to the left and Kinbury Road to the right. Continue straight on, and after about a quarter of a mile, the road forks by a small triangular patch of grass. Take the right fork signposted Inkpen Common and after about half a mile you’ll reach a crossroads with a left turn to Heads Lane and a right turn to a bridleway. The entrance to the Inkpen Common reserve is on the left, just past Heads Lane, in front of a post box. BBOWT have requested that we park at the left-hand side of the road beyond the post box. We’ll go into the reserve by the post box and walk to the work site from there.

If you’re coming from Newbury via the Enborne Road, take the second turning on the left after leaving Hamstead Marshall, signposted Inkpen and Ham. Take this road, Forbury Lane, until you reach a staggered junction with a churchyard on your right. Turn left onto Inkpen Road and follow the directions from Forbury Lane/Kintbury Road as described above.

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