Wild Watlington Book & Art Exhibition
We are lucky to have around Watlington beautiful natural habitats. From our precious chalk grasslands to our rare chalk streams, from the...
Watch out, watch out, there’s a hedgehog about!
Now that hibernation time has truly ended for our prickly friends, they will be out and about feverishly foraging for food to build up...
Launch screening of “The Chalgrove Brook – Rescuing A Chalk Stream”
Last Thursday was the long awaited launch screening of “The Chalgrove Brook – Rescuing A Chalk Stream” which was held at Icknield...
Cutting plastic cutlery
About 1.1 billion single-use plates and 4.25 billion items of cutlery, mostly plastic, are used annually in the UK, but only 10% are...
Watlington Nature Walk (Thursday 3rd June 2021)
With next to zero knowledge of birds and nature in general, I took a day off work for this walk. This turned out to be a very enriching...
Ghost Hedgehog Workshop
The Ghost Hedgehog workshop was the last event of the Nature Festival and was attended by several families despite wet and windy weather....
Viking Silver and Chiltern Chalk
On Saturday the 17th October, the chalk pits on Watlington Hill were transformed into a Viking camp. Upon entering the chalk pits,...
THE BIG SQUEEZE - Review
On Sunday 27th September the weather, the apples, the pears, the bottles, and the press all aligned like beautiful stars between 11 am...
The Big Squeeze
FULLY BOOKED Press your own apples Sunday 27th September 11am-3pm The Spire & Spoke Book your 20min slot watlingtonnaturefestival@gmail.c...
Watlington Nature Festival
Remember how good it felt to be allowed to take that first walk in the countryside when we went into lockdown? The abundance of...
Watlington Nature Festival
We are planning a Watlington Nature Festival 2020 for September/October (Covid-19 regulation compliant). We will celebrate our uniquely...