Members' area Spring 2008  
Up and coming events…
view of Willsbridge Mill from Sunlight Garden

Future events at Willsbridge Mill – put them in your diary NOW!

All events are at Willsbridge Mill, Willsbridge Hill.Longwell Green.

Wednesday 20 February 2008

Spring Quest

Willsbridge Mill
10-12.30pm & 1.30-4.00pm

Follow the trail round Willsbridge Valley and see it springing into life and colour. Help us to make shadow puppets for a spectacular spring puppet show!

Children £4 Adults free

Sunday 9 March 2008

Stepping through time

Willsbridge Mill
2-5pm

Event to launch new geology trail. Travel back in time to find out how the rock was formed beneath our feet. Packed with geological goodies. Rock buns and swamp soup in the café.

Free Entry

How to get to Willsbridge Mill
Willsbridge Mill is just off the Bristol-Bath cycle track.

If coming by car, take the A431 road between Bath and Bristol.  Only disabled parking is permitted in front of the Mill but there is a car park in Long Beach Road at the top of Willsbridge Hill.

Buses – from Bristol, bus 45 from the Horsefair to Long Beach Road stops  hourly on Sunday, or bus 632 from Bristol bus station to Willsbridge Hill stops 35 mins past the hour (every 2 hours from 9.35am).  From Bath, bus 632 runs every 2 hours from 8.35am from Bath bus station to Willsbridge Hill.

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Copies of beautifully illustrated Trust Nature Reserve Guides packed full of fascinating information for the following sites

Avonmouth
Brandon Hill
Stockwood Open Space
Tucking Mill
Plus Burrington Combe

Send SAE to 32 Jacobs Wells Road, Bristol BS8 1DR - 33p for one, 49p for all five

Special permission!

As a Trust member you can get closer to wildlife on several of our reserves where access is restricted because of their sensitivity or for health and safety reasons, by applying for a permit. Application forms are available by contacting Kirsty Forsberg on 0117 917 7270 or email kirstyforsberg@avonwildlifetrust.org.uk.

Permits are needed to visit

Avonmouth Pools
Bathamption Oxbow
Blake's Pools
Clapton Moor (part)
Cleeve Heronry
Littleton Brick Pits
Max Bog
Monk Woods
Priory Farm
Tickenham Hill (part)
Weston Moor (part)
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32 Jacobs Wells Road,
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