Rhododendron Clearance - Grimsbury Castle, Hermitage
6th October 2010

Grimsbury Castle is the site of an iron age hill fort. What battles there may have been we shall never know but in recent times its banks and ditches have be overwhelmed by a new foreign invader - rhododendron.

Last year Pang Valley volunteers started clearing the site and CROW was to continue this process, cutting all the growth back to the stump which we hope will then be treated. Unfortunately no stumps were treated last year and there is a risk that in a few years we will have to repeat the whole process.

As we were not permitted to burn the cleared material on the site, it had to be stacked and left to decay. Judging by the current state of the material cut last year, this may be a long process.