Bickershaw Country Park is a key site located within Wigans Greenheart Regional Park, and now it has a royal connection.
Wigan Rotary Club celebrates the recent planting of a Royal Oak, grown from an acorn gathered on one of the royal estates.
Over 400 trees were donated by the Woodland Trust to Wigan Rotary Club, and were planted at the Bickershaw site in conjunction with the Lancashire Wildlife Trust.
On hand to plant the special tree was the Mayor of Wigan Borough, Councillor Myra Whiteside, together with Councillor and Rotarian Eunice Smethurst, a former Mayor of the Borough whose ward shares coverage of the country park with the current mayor, and several members of the Wigan Rotary Club.
On hand to help with the planting of all the trees was Rotary Vice President Terry Hogan, who said Wigan Rotary Club is very keen on trying to help improve the borough, and make it a better place to live and work. We are delighted to be able to undertake this planting, and help restore the former pit area to one that can be used by the community
Greenheart Manager Martin Purcell thanked Wigan Rotary Club for organising the donation and planting and said With help like this from the boroughs community we can make Bickershaw Country Park into something the borough can be rightly proud.
This mixed native hedgerow planting will help to make Bickershaw an even more special place to visit and improve habitats for birds and wildlife.
The project is one of a series by the Woodland Trust as part of the charitys Jubilee Woods Project, which will plant six million trees, of native British species, across the country.
Front, L-R : Mayors Consort John Hurst, Wigan Rotary Vice President Terry Hogan, Mayor Councillor Myra Whiteside, Greenheart Manager Martin Purcell, and Liz Smith from Lancahsire Wildlife Trust
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