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PICTURE GALLERYSt James Church in Weddington

The Green Fields of Weddington are important to ALL residents: young and old...

Click on the links below to view the picture galleries of the Fields. If you wish to submit a photo to this gallery please email us at: info@saveweddington.org.uk

Residents' Pictures submitted for the Village Green Application in 2012

Residents' Pictures of Weddington Fields

The Wildlife of Weddington Fields

SWORD Supporters in action at local events and meetings

Recent Flooding in Weddington Fields

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Residents' Pictures of Weddington Fields

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Morning in Weddington

(c) Nellie Vin 2011

Weddington's younger generation enjoying the Fields. New Year's Day 2011*****

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Residents' Pictures submitted for the Village Green Application in 2012

Horseriding outing on the fields, 1964

G Smith

Horseriding outing on the fields, 1964

G Smith

Horseriding outing on the fields, 1964

G Smith

Winter in the Fields, 1984

G Edwards

Autumn in the fields, 1992

G Edwards

Child and granddad playing with model aeroplane in fields 2007

John Brookes

Child playing in fields, 2007

John Brookes

Child playing in fields, 2007

John Brookes

Walker, November 2010

Matt Gardner

Church Fields in winter, 2011/12

G Edwards

Access gate from Church Lane with nature walk signs, 2011

Ray Small

Dog walker, 2011

Steph Broughton

Dog walker, 2011

Steph Broughton

Dog walking on bridleway, March 2011

Matt Gardner

Dog walking on bridleway, March 2011

Matt Gardner

Child on path, March 2011

Matt Gardner

Family walking in fields. May 2011

Joanne Sara Michie

Child and cows in field, May 2011

Joanne Sara Michie

River boundary of land, May 2011

Joanne Sara Michie

Public bridleway and Green Track sign, June 2011

Nigel Graves

Bridleway across the fields, December 2011

Nigel Graves

Snowman building in Weddington Church Fields, Jan 2012

Sonja Burtenshaw

Snowman building in Weddington Church Fields, Jan 2012

Sonja Burtenshaw

Snowman building in Weddington Church Fields, Jan 2012

Sonja Burtenshaw

Walking in Weddington Church Fields, Jan 2012

Sonja Burtenshaw

Walking in Weddington Church Fields, Jan 2012

Sonja Burtenshaw

Nuneaton Ramblers Club in Weddington Church car park about to set off on walk across the fields, March 2012

Jennifer Brookes

Bridleway and kissing gate below Weddington Nature

Walk access, 2012

Nigel Graves

Nuneaton and Bedworth Council Green Track signs on the land, March 2012

Nigel Graves

Bridleway under bridge. Steps up to Nature walk on left (recently refurbished with wooden sidings), March 2012

Nigel Graves

Father and son in Church Fields, March 2012

Dave Michie

Bridleway and kissing gate below Weddington Nature

Walk, March 2012

David Michie

Family by protected Oak tree in Church Field, March 2012

David Michie

Father and son by protected Oak tree in Church Fields, March 2012

David Michie

St James Church in Weddington as seen from

Church fields, March 2012

David Michie

Children playing in Oak tree in Church Fields, March 2012

David Michie

Dog walker in Church Fields, March 2012

David Michie

Children with bikes in Church Fields, March 2012

David Michie

Walker on kissing gate below Weddington Nature Walk, March 2012

David Michie

Two local dog walkers in Church Fields, March 2012

David Michie

Local family walking into Weddington Church Fields from Caldecote, March 2012

David Michie

 

The Wildlife of Weddington Fields

St James' Church in the mist

St James' Church and Weddington fields snowscape*

The River Anker flows through Weddington meadows

This field mouse is a current resident of the development site!*

Baby field mice living in the fields proposed for development*

White-letter Hairstreak. This is severely endangered and its population has decreased by 63% in the past decade*

Brown Argus butterfly - a rare sight in Weddington fields*

A Comma butterfly - another local resident of the proposed site*

A Redwing bird that currently makes its home in the development area*

The Common Blue: a small butterfly, rare in Weddington due to loss of breeding habitat*

More young field mice residents of the development site*

A Common Darter - a more unusual Weddington resident!*

A Fieldfair bird that lives in the Weddington development area*

Large Skipper butterfly pictured in Weddington's green fields*

Weddington Nature Walk

A Red Admiral butterfly in Weddington*

This Ringlet butterfly breeds on the old railway embankment and the Weddington fields next to it*

The Small Copper is another tiny yet wonderfully marked butterfly that breeds on the fields that will be destroyed by the development*

Small Skipper - a rare but welcome visitor to Weddington*

Purple Hairstreak. This species has declined in the UK by 23% over the past ten years*

However, they still breed on the ancient oaks in the area of the proposed development. They can be seen on hot still summers evenings spiralling around the tree tops.

The River Anker flowing through Weddington fields

A view of Weddington fields and St James' Church which will be lost under the proposed development*

 

SWORD Supporters in action at local events and meetings

SWORD Residents' Meeting 12th January

Dr Alan Srbljanin, Chair of SWORD

Councillor Bill Sheppard and Keith Kondakor (Nuneaton Friends of the Earth)

Marcus Jones, MP for Nuneaton

Outside the Town Hall before 17th August planning meeting

(c) Nuneaton News

(c) Nuneaton News

The Grim Reaper turns up to support SWORD!

Outside the Town Hall before 17th August planning meeting

(c) Nuneaton Telegraph

Outside the Town Hall at 29th June public council meeting

Outside the Town Hall at 29th June public council meeting

Supporters gather in Weddington Church Fields to hand over petition in May

Local cows show their support for the SWORD campaign...

They even blockaded diggers in the fields!

SWORD Cows stage a lie-down protest

Postcard produced in 2012 by SWORD to promote Public Inquiry on 17th January

Rear of SWORD postcard

 

Recent Flooding in Weddington Fields

Pictures of the 1999 flood which submerged the fields across the road from the development sites and also flooded the development site fields. This flood came from water running down the slope from Higham on the Hill - with no flood prevention measures to stop it. Hallam do not appear to understand this flood risk in their consultation documents!

 

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More flooding in the fields in Weddington next to the River Anker (thanks to Martin Mumper):

 

 

 

Pictures marked * are copyright Steven Cheshire 2010, for which grateful acknowledgement is given.

 

Pictures marked ** are copyright Tim Clamp 2010, for which grateful acknowledgement is given.

 

Pictures marked *** are copyright Steph Broughton 2010, for which grateful acknowledgement is given.

 

Pictures marked **** are copyright Mr & Mrs K Smith 2010, for which grateful acknowledgement is given.

 

Pictures marked ***** are copyright Fiona Cooper-Woods 2011, for which grateful acknowledgement is given.

 

Pictures marked ****** are copyright Kay Hope 2011, for which grateful acknowledgement is given.

 

Pictures marked + are copyright Steph Broughton 2011, for which grateful acknowledgement is given.

 

Pictures marked ++ are copyright Jenny Brookes 2011, for which grateful acknowledgement is given.

 

 

The habitat and wildlife shown above enrich the living environment of Weddington's residents, and will be destroyed by the housing estate that is proposed. But they cannot speak out for themselves. That's why YOU need to. Don't lose these natural treasures forever. Help put these plans to the SWORD!

 

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