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The Woodlands Farm Trust is a registered charity that administers the 89-acre Woodlands urban farm in the Royal Borough of Greenwich, in southeast London. This city farm is located on the east side of Shooter's Hill, around 2km south of Plumstead and 1.5km west of Welling. A watercourse, the Wogebourne, flows northward through the farmland and ...
Budget. £82.5 million [1] Website. www .woodlandtrust .org .uk. The Woodland Trust is the largest woodland conservation charity in the United Kingdom and is concerned with the creation, protection, and restoration of native woodland heritage. It has planted over 50 million trees since 1972. [4]
Trees for Cities is a UK charity which aims to plant urban trees and create greener cities. [1] Since 1993, the organisation has reported that 125,000 volunteers have planted over 1,200,000 urban trees in parks, streets, woodlands, schools, hospitals and housing estates. The charity also runs the Edible Playgrounds programme, [2] which aims to ...
Green belt (United Kingdom) In British town planning, the green belt is a policy for controlling urban growth. The term, coined by Octavia Hill in 1875, [1] [2] refers to a ring of countryside where urbanisation will be resisted for the foreseeable future, maintaining an area where local food growing, forestry and outdoor leisure can be ...
Forestry is the science and craft of creating, managing, planting, using, conserving and repairing forests and woodlands for associated resources for human and environmental benefits. [1] Forestry is practiced in plantations and natural stands. [2] The science of forestry has elements that belong to the biological, physical, social, political ...
The Gherkin, formally 30 St Mary Axe and previously known as the Swiss Re Building, is a commercial skyscraper in London 's primary financial district, the City of London. It was completed in December 2003 and opened in April 2004. [10] With 41 floors, it is 180 metres (591 ft) tall [3] and stands on the sites of the former Baltic Exchange and ...
Vigo Village / ˈ v aɪ ɡ oʊ / is a village and (as simply Vigo) a civil parish in the Gravesham district in Kent, England.It takes its name from a 15th-century public house, which was renamed in the 18th century after the Battle of Vigo Bay.
The medieval English saw their economy as comprising three groups – the clergy, who prayed; the knights, who fought; and the peasants, who worked the land and towns involved in international trade. [1] Over the five centuries of the Middle Ages, the English economy would at first grow and then suffer an acute crisis, resulting in significant ...