Open Day, on Sunday, at Pendeford Mill, near Wolverhampton. A managed wood since the 13th century

People will be able to get a rare glimpse of one of Wolverhampton’s nature reserves on Sunday. An open day is being held at Pendeford Mill, a site of valuable environmental and historical significance. The 59 acres of naturally-managed countryside date back to the 13th century and provide a stable and protected habitat for wildlife on the fringe of Wolverhampton, with an ever-changing array of flora and fauna on show. More details at http://bit.ly/LcelRz.  

 For Pendeford Mill and other countryside events in and around Wolverhampton, follow link http://www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/BFF01928-D09C-4CB2-9295-75493F3A2103/0/CountrysideEventspg233mb.pdf

Pendeford Mill wood bares comparison with Lesnes Abbey Woods, near Thamesmead London http://www.panoramio.com/user/2865482/tags/Lesnes%20Abbey%20Woods.   also managed since the 13th century.  

Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park (revisited)

Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, a group on Flickr.

Historic Landscape Characterisation divides the landscape into character types. But then you need to draw an arrow, of direction. Ontologically "Everything is in the act of becoming". It is perpetually on the cusp of existence, only to be converted into a memory. "Now" is infinitely small, and the past infinitely big. The common understanding of "now" actually includes a fair chunk of what is past and gone, never to reappear. Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, as the name implies, is a cemetery but is administered by the local council as a nature reserve for the purposes of recreation and education. So what is its "Type". Take a look at the photos and you decide. Not that having overlapping "Types" invalidates Historic Landscape Characterisation. Here, normally, a decision is made over which Type is "dominant". Would you say that THCP is predominantly a recreational park? a nature reserve? or a cemetery?...
Whatever it is, it is one of my favourite spots in London. Birdsong at dusk and dawn is as good as I've heard anywhere and the place is full of flowers (and trees and ivy). If you stand in the middle you can barely hear traffic!

Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park

Panoramio photos (handy map / aerial photos)

Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, a set on Flickr.