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Hi everyone.

Just to let you know, there is now a website for the nature reserve http://www.foxhill-bank.org.uk

The site is still in development at the moment, but we thought we'd let you all have a sneak preview before it's officially launched.

Any feedback, negative or positive, would be greatly appreciated.

Likewise, if anyone feels they have relevant info that they would like to see on the site then please don't hesitate in contacting us at [email protected]

Thankyou,

Gary

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Thanks Gary. That looks very interesting.

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Thanks Willow :)

It will be interesting, hopefully, when we get all the info and the photo gallery on there.

Gary

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Hi Gary,
Very interesting site. One point, which may seem pedantic but I think is important, you need to take more care over punctuation. Good luck.

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A bit of a spell check too. It may sound finicky but it does look much more professional when everything is spot on.

The layout is very attractive, not too fussy but interesting.

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Thanks for the info Gary, I will keep it in my "favourites"

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Wow! Thanks everyone :) First time I've posted on this forum, didn't really know what to expect.

Thanks for the comments, I'll be going through the site tomorrow to get all those spelling mistakes and typos sorted out. We've put so much work into the site, I think it was a case of 'couldn't see for looking' lol.

Atarah, thanks, I spent about an hour looking at your facinating site this morning, if you have any photos of Foxhill Bank we'd be only too happy to put them on our gallery page :)

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It's nice in here, think I may become a regular :)

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Great idea - it is a wonderful place. I remember walking over Whiteash as a child and all round Foxhill Bank, and now our house looks over it. It is a great local asset, and deserves to be used and cared for.

Any suggestions about what to do about the oiks with quad bikes who charge around, mostly evening/night, terrifying the wildlife and wrecking the paths?

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well done gary nice site

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Just discovered this thread on a SEARCH for "nature" (no i dont want to get my kit off and run around the fields)... I want to try a bit of nature photography... This thread is 2 yrs old.. anyone know if the site and info is still relevant.. anyone been to this place.. anyone know of other nature places..

I remember as a kid being able to find nature stuff.. frogs and all manner of stuff.. now wouldnt know where... wanna photograph wildlife and anyting interesting... But local

Suggestions as to where and my other question.. ta? :)

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Yup, still going strong.

Myself and Pendy and Gayle all over look it.

I sit in bed watching the herons, and very occasionally kingfishers.

The rubbish bins need emptying and they are building a new viewing platform, other than that it's very nice. Spring is great as it's been well planted with native spring flowers.

Friday night you may well see some wildlife, as young teens meet to court/make a racket.

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Very kind of you but I think i will stick to the paths and outdoor pics.......gulp :)


wasnt too sure what to make of the above so we went down this morning.... really took some finding and when we did I walked around the path and didnt think much of it.... then i saw a board with a map of the area... the board is just about readable its so mucky... anyways it showed two lodges and I missed them on the walk round... so off we went again and we found the lodges..... a lot better...

to think this is litrally a few minutes walk from the cenetaph in town... how many people would know... nothing spectacular and wrong time of year for anything colourfull... but I will post the pics later... I bet some will be surprised at whats so close


and if you have a good uninterupted view of all that and/or a lodge then your a very lucky fella gary :)

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He does. Apparently it is the best platform for viewing dogging activities in the whole of Hyndburn.

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Probably help to find it if they had a map on the website.

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Any more pics on your site Kipax? Looks good.

I did see you wandering about whilst I was sat in bed watching Trisha, but thought if I shouted out of the window I would have frightened both you and the wildlife.:D

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Am doing the pics in a mo to put onsite.. got lots of different ones and some wildlife.... Didn't ya see my missus as well ? :)

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Ironically, although I live closest to the entrance of the reserve the one thing I don't have is a view of it from my house. I'm about 20ft from the entrance but have a gable end pointing at it so envy Garinda's splendid view.

I have to admit that I've lived in Ossy most of my life but didn't know the place existed until about six years ago. I would take a guess that a lot of people in Ossy don't know it exists.

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It is somewhere we came to walk before I moved here.

We were walking through it at Easter two years ago when I'd just moved back home, when we saw the for sale sign whilst looking up from the benches.

Happily because the estate agent was closed over Easter we shoved a note through the door saying we'd like to view it and left our phone number. I was the first person to look round and because houses were selling very fast then made him an offer. I told him I would be paying cash and he even knocked something off the price thinking he was going to get a carrier bag full of notes!:)

Mine and next door are probably the only houses that can see the lodges all year round because there is a gap in the trees. Last night I lay on the sofa with the front door open watching the swallows dive en masse over the water. This morning I awoke and sat up in bed to see the Heron in it's usual place by the little island.

I feel very lucky living here, nice views and smashing neighbours, something I never had whilst living in cities.:)

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Nice informative site, with the corrections mentioned by others it'll be even better, love the gallery bit and can't wait until there is more images in it.

I may well go have a snoop around this weekend.

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You sure that bl**dy heron's not plastic???? :p ;)

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Not unless someone flies it like a kite as we see it flying over our house regular :)
It has a few feeding sites, its on the nature reserve, flies up to the "Antley syke" mid morning - see another thread about this :confused: goes to the bubble factory lodge and see if flying towards Accrington from there, don't know where it lands though, seems to be heading in the direction off haggs lodge but thats only a guess. We see it last night on someones rooftop and was eyeing up the property owners fishpond :) or it was after a mate as he also has a plastic heron next to his pond.

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It was a looong way away when i took the pick... the other side of the lodge and then back some near top of trees. 420mm lens and still had to crop all the way in..

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Am definitely going to try and find this place during one lunch time next week and take a look. Will I need wellies, usually have stilettoes on at work and don't wish to leave behind in what looks like marshy ground ?.:eek:
A refreshing glass of lemonade would be welcome Garinda :)

Think that Heron comes to visit my lodge later, see it most days, their very timid, slightest movement and its off ... woe betide another Heron though if it tries to land on its territory .. look delicate, don't they ? Wanna'see 'em fight :Banane36:

Plastic :rofl38: that's was very funny H-R. Thought of Garinda waking up every morning and believing was real and turns out to be plastic.

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What is a lodge and what is it for ?

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fighting is bad, you shouldn't want to see fights, you naughty girl.

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I think originally it was a lodge for a print works at Church. It tells you the history on the website I think.

No, the Heron ain't plastic, unless it has batteries and also flies off after Trisha has finished.

Why don't Herons deliver something interesting, like Storks do? Instead of just flying off somewhere else looking out for a well stocked pond?:rolleyes:

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yes but what is a lodge, to me a lodge is a building on the entrance to the estate here.

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An expanse of man made water, bigger than a puddle, smaller than a lake, get it ? Textile industries always had to have water available for various processes along the line, mainly when the boilers were steam driven, but bleaching needs plenty.

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1. a. A cottage or cabin, often rustic, used as a temporary abode or shelter: a ski lodge. b. A small house on the grounds of an estate or a park, used by a caretaker or gatekeeper. c. An inn.
2. a. Any of various Native American dwellings, such as a hogan, wigwam, or longhouse. b. The group living in such a dwelling.
3. a. A local chapter of certain fraternal organizations. b. The meeting hall of such a chapter. c. The members of such a chapter.
4. The den of certain animals, such as the dome-shaped structure built by beavers.

v. lodged, lodg·ing, lodg·es
v. tr.

1. a. To provide with temporary quarters, especially for sleeping: lodges travelers in the shed. b. To rent a room to. c. To place or establish in quarters: lodged the children with relatives after the fire.
2. To serve as a depository for; contain: This cellar lodges our oldest wines.
3. To place, leave, or deposit, as for safety: documents lodged with a trusted associate.
4. To fix, force, or implant: lodge a bullet in a wall.
5. To register (a charge or complaint, for example) before an authority, such as a court; file.
6. To vest (authority, for example).
7. To beat (crops) down flat: rye lodged by the cyclone.

v. intr.

1. a. To live in a place temporarily. b. To rent accommodations, especially for sleeping.
2. To be or become embedded: The ball lodged in the fence.

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You are right, it doesn't really make sense and isn't listed in the dictionary.

Perhaps we just use it locally? Most mills up here had their own lodges.

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You are correct, Garinda !! This is a disgrace !! Think the word has been used long enough now to warrant an entry in the dictionary.

Better report it immediately. :eek:

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Actually, I remember reading it the other day now on a site explaining a walk down here. we've got a house in the sticks with a small lake at the side, it called it a lodge, unless it was on about the house. It's not something we say here, merevale(meravale) hall estate has two large lakes, ones called a lake the other a pool.

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My explanation of a Lancashire lodge-

A small man-made lake.
Constructed by damming a natural waterway and usually used by industry.

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rindy your avatar is disgusting

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Why? It's St. Sebastian, a similar tourtured soul as myself.:D

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yer Your treated better than anyone I know. When did anyone ever fire arrows in to your flesh.

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Give 'em a chance, plus I ain't mature enough yet.;)

You'll get smacked for thread wandering in the morning.:D

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me, thread wander, never.


Mill race, mill pool, wier I've found so far .

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Mill race, mill pool, wier I've found so far .[/QUOTE]

Hatter, GIVE UP !! just not listed YET. Kipax has given you some lovely pics to show you what it is ... here is another ... the one at the back of my house,sorry photo a little dull, brother just showing me how to use his old digital, but surely by now you have got the idea. :D

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I have heard poeple stick needles into garinda dolls... does that count ?

:)

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Thanks Mick for lightning that one up .. makes the duck **** look much more acceptable :D

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Yes your right it does stand out now hehe

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Those dolls are collector's items now.

Keep yours safe.:D

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Ok who's gonna sell me a doll and a pin?

Kate, that there is a mill pond. I know what a mill pond is. It's just that I read that these lodges were concrete sided. sheer drop in to them. Perhaps I got wrong idea. We've got a couple here on the river anker. One had a mill race. wier and then a mill pond, I imagine the others the same, but I've never been and now they've rebuilt the mill as a house so can't get. The top one, used t still have the race, and wier working when I was a kid, but about 15 yrs ago, the wier or dam that diverted the water down the race gave way, the race dried up, and the wier stopped. The mill pond was fed from the other way, and grew up with reeds because the water had stopped flowing.