A Little Rough Guide around the Hedges, is packed with useful information including a handy pull-out centrespread with easy to use colour photographs that identify many of the plants that are common in English hedgerows. We hope it will encourage many people to get out and about in their countryside during the late summer and early autumn.
A Little Rough Guide around the Hedges (6.3MB PDF)
If you would like a printed copy please contact CPRE Publications, tel: 020 7981 2870 or email: publications@cpre.org.uk.
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Get to know hedgerows Gallery
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Hedgerow facts
- The oldest known surviving hedgerow in England is ‘Judith’s Hedge’ in Cambridgeshire, which is over 900 years old
- Over 125 of our most threatened wildlife species are associated with hedges.
- More than 80% of farmland birds rely on hedges for protection and food, and many threatened mammals feed on their fruits and seeds;
- Hawthorn – the commonest hedgerow shrub – gave us the original wedding confetti, with the white flowers being showered on newly-weds at traditional spring weddings.
