Hedge of tomorrow

HEDGELAYING COMPETITION RETURNS AS SKILLS ON SHOW

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TRADITIONAL countryside management skills were on show once again at an annual competition.

Denbighshire Countryside Service's hedgelaying competition returned this year to take place on the Clwydian range above Clicain.

Forty participants, including volunteers, took on the challenge of hedgelaying on land with permission of the landowner, just below the hill line.

As well as volunteers taking part there was also a staff category that included entries from Keep Wales Tidy, Flintshire Countryside Service, North Wales Wildlife Trust, Wirral Countryside Volunteers, Smithy Farm and Bodfari Environmental and teams from Denbighshire’s various countryside areas, together laying a total of 140 metres of hedgerow.