Home Built Village Pond Whole village worked for a year to restore its pond. In 1997, the World Wide Fund for Nature set up a national pilot scheme to re-establish lost village ponds and Mayford was chosen as one of the first ten villages to take part, of which, only Mayford's pond had totally disappeared from the map. It took 50 volunteers a year to restore it ready to replant and it's still there, in good shape, in 2021. This was a feature about it being filled at last in 1998 Villager and conservator Susie Punch wades into the newly dug Mayford village pond , redug and planted by loca
Home Built Village Pond Whole village worked for a year to restore its pond. In 1997, the World Wide Fund for Nature set up a national pilot scheme to re-establish lost village ponds and Mayford was chosen as one of the first ten villages to take part, of which, only Mayford's pond had totally disappeared from the map. It took 50 volunteers a year to restore it ready to replant and it's still there, in good shape, in 2021. This was a feature about it being filled at last in 1998 Villager and conservator Susie Punch wades into the newly dug Mayford village pond , redug and planted by local people Mayford in near Woking in Surrey 17 December 1998 Picture by Roger Bamber
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