Hearsall Common Nature Reserve (1 Viewer)

Gazolba · Apr 2, 2019

Just came across this wonderful web page on Hearsall Common nature reserve and thought I would share it.
After digging deeper, it looks like most of the photos and the website were created 20 years ago.
Who knows if the people who created it are still alive. But I love stumbling on little gems like this on the internet.
Hearsall Common

Houchens Head · Apr 3, 2019

I take it this is going along the start of Broad Lane and then up along Guphill Ave?
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Nick · Apr 4, 2019

I go past there every day and didn't know if was there!

Otis · Apr 4, 2019

Same here.

I wonder where you can park. Would love to have a look at the place.

dutchman · Apr 4, 2019

Originally "Horsall Common". It took its name from the stream that runs through it. There was at one time a small hamlet between Broad Lane and Tile Hill Lane known as "Whorwell". It offered various amusements and was apparently extremely popular with young men on Sunday afternoons at one time. It was part of the Stoneleigh estate so was outside the jursidiction of Coventry City and its strict limitations on public amusements.

Beechwood Avenue was originally known as Whor Lane but for some reason the locals objected and had it changed along with all other references to Whorwell and Horsall.

Houchens Head · Apr 4, 2019

I used to venture into that wooded area as a kid (you felt safe back then!). Me and my mates used to play cowboys and Indians there, or maybe Robin Hood.

Houchens Head · Apr 4, 2019

Otis said:
Same here.

I wonder where you can park. Would love to have a look at the place.

Park along Guphill Avenue. There a parking bays opposite the houses. (Check on Google Earth.)

rob9872 · Apr 4, 2019

Houchens Head said:
I used to venture into that wooded area as a kid (you felt safe back then!). Me and my mates used to play cowboys and Indians there, or maybe Robin Hood.

We used to cycle to the woods and build dens - basically did the paedos prep work for them in hindsight as they didn't need to grab us and had somewhere to conceal what could have been going on! I'd be mortified if I thought the kids were doing that now, but equally a shame they miss out on such freedom and instead stare at a screen instead.

Malaka · Apr 4, 2019

As a freeman of this City am I still allowed to graze my sheep there?

rob9872 · Apr 4, 2019

Malaka said:
As a freeman of this City am I still allowed to graze my sheep there?

Go on you want us to ask so I will. How & why?

Malaka · Apr 4, 2019

If you served an apprenticeship in Coventry you became a freeman of the city of Coventry. And that gives you the right to graze your cattle/sheep on common ground (allegedly)

richnrg · Apr 4, 2019

Nick said:
I go past there every day and didn't know if was there!

i think that's the whole idea (of it being a 'reserve')

richnrg · Apr 4, 2019

Malaka said:
If you served an apprenticeship in Coventry you became a freeman of the city of Coventry. And that gives you the right to graze your cattle/sheep on common ground (allegedly)

Have they eaten all the grass in your back garden?

bezzer · Apr 4, 2019

Malaka said:
If you served an apprenticeship in Coventry you became a freeman of the city of Coventry. And that gives you the right to graze your cattle/sheep on common ground (allegedly)

Same here. GEC 1981 - 1985.

Houchens Head · Apr 4, 2019

Malaka said:
As a freeman of this City am I still allowed to graze my sheep there?

Do you do silly handshakes and wink at other Freemen? (or is that Freemasons? Same thing innit?)

clint van damme · Apr 4, 2019

used to go up there regularly, use the cycle track and make our own tracks in the woods.
The only 'wildlife' I can remember were the newts in the pond behind the church and the odd squirrel, not quite the Okovango delta.

bezzer · Apr 4, 2019

Houchens Head said:
Do you do silly handshakes and wink at other Freemen? (or is that Freemasons? Same thing innit?)

A Freemason isn't the same as a Freeman of the City.
Although you may well be both......

richnrg · Apr 4, 2019

clint van damme said:
used to go up there regularly, use the cycle track and make our own tracks in the woods.
The only 'wildlife' I can remember were the newts in the pond behind the church and the odd squirrel, not quite the Okovango delta.

what was wrong with the squirrel?

clint van damme · Apr 4, 2019

richnrg said:
what was wrong with the squirrel?

Westendlad · Apr 5, 2019

Spent many a days 'wagging' it there in the early 80's......

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