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Crossfields, BOLTON, BL7 9NH

Taken on Grange Road at the south western end of Jumbles Reservoir, near Bolton, Lancashire, I am looking across the green and the railway line to Hillside Avenue. The sharp-eyed may be able to spot the host of fieldfares on this section of green (there were also lots of redwings further up towards Horrobin).

Ousel Nest Meadows lie within the Jumbles Country Park, to the south of the reservoir. The following is taken from an information board at the site. “Ousel is the old English word for the Blackbird, although it is possible that its cousin the Ring Ousel may have nested close to Bradshaw Brook in the past. Grazing or mowing has not taken place at the site for several years allowing young Oak and Birch trees to start regenerating. This has been helped along by the planting of 4000 young native broadleaves by Bolton Metro and local interest groups during the winter of 1996-7”

Leaving Bromley Cross.

The fields here alongside Bradshaw Brook were previously cleared for grazing but are now being allowed to return to woodland and marshland, with the help of some broadleaf tree planting by the Local Authority.

Ousel Nest Meadows lie within the Jumbles Country Park, to the south of the reservoir. The following is taken from an information board at the site. “Ousel is the old English word for the Blackbird, although it is possible that its cousin the Ring Ousel may have nested close to Bradshaw Brook in the past. Grazing or mowing has not taken place at the site for several years allowing young Oak and Birch trees to start regenerating. This has been helped along by the planting of 4000 young native broadleaves by Bolton Metro and local interest groups during the winter of 1996-7”

Taken on Grange Road at the south western end of Jumbles Reservoir, Bolton, Lancashire.

Ousel Nest Meadows lie within the Jumbles Country Park, to the south of the reservoir. The following is taken from an information board at the site. “Ousel is the old English word for the Blackbird, although it is possible that its cousin the Ring Ousel may have nested close to Bradshaw Brook in the past. Grazing or mowing has not taken place at the site for several years allowing young Oak and Birch trees to start regenerating. This has been helped along by the planting of 4000 young native broadleaves by Bolton Metro and local interest groups during the winter of 1996-7.”

The Jumbles is now a nature park dominated by a reservoir. Before the reservoir was built in the 1960s this path then led down to the "Old Jumbles" - a wooded valley through which Bradshaw Brook flowed. Now the path brings you to the reservoir dam.