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WE were originally planning to walk part of the Dorset Coastal path with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dougs, but his car took sick and died, so we decided to save the coastal path for another day and went to Stonehill Down and Kilwood Copse instead.
The view is wonderful from the top of the down and there were a number of butterflies as well.
Kilwood Copse is one of the Dorset Wildlife Trusts more recent aquisitions (we donated £200 towards the purchase), so we definitely wanted to see it. It's an interesting area of coppice woodland close to Stonehill Down (reserves close together make good conservation sense) and the Trust have started work on it already. It looks as though one of the immediate tasks will be clearing rubbish as old fridges and the like have been dumped there in the past. It'll be nice when there's some proper footpaths too - but it's still a lovely area with dappled sunlight coming through the trees and ferns and moss on old fallen trees.
dougs, but his car took sick and died, so we decided to save the coastal path for another day and went to Stonehill Down and Kilwood Copse instead. The view is wonderful from the top of the down and there were a number of butterflies as well.
Kilwood Copse is one of the Dorset Wildlife Trusts more recent aquisitions (we donated £200 towards the purchase), so we definitely wanted to see it. It's an interesting area of coppice woodland close to Stonehill Down (reserves close together make good conservation sense) and the Trust have started work on it already. It looks as though one of the immediate tasks will be clearing rubbish as old fridges and the like have been dumped there in the past. It'll be nice when there's some proper footpaths too - but it's still a lovely area with dappled sunlight coming through the trees and ferns and moss on old fallen trees.
