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  St Helens Council

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  Terry Deveney

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  01744 456122 
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Information about this open space

Clinkham Wood Community Woodland Local Nature Reserve, is a large urban clough woodland of 7.26 Ha located to the north of St. Helens. There are four adjoining large amenity grassland areas one with resident football / rugby teams on it with the woodland containing its own meadow, spring fed stream and glade areas, sculpture trail, sensory trail and bird hide within it.  Up to 1997, the woodland had become a no go area for the local community and through the development of a Management Plan, external grant funding, a regular Ranger presence and a committed and hard working Friends of Clinkham Wood, the woodland and surrounding amenity areas have been transformed into a site which is admired and positively used by the local community for informal and formal recreation activities and pursuits and is appreciated as a safe, clean and welcoming place to visit.  Gaining Local Nature Reserve status in 1999 and with a sustained approach taken by the Friends of Clinkham Wood has resulted in many community events being held annually and a successful Local Heritage Community grant of £23699 applied for and awarded to the Friends group has enabled the Friends and the local community throughout 2006 to identify, photograph, record and document the extent of the flora and fauna of the Local Nature Reserve and surrounding green spaces and also create a leaflet for the community woodland.