The Hampshire Hedge

The Hampshire Hedge is an ambitious new initiative to connect the two National Parks in Hampshire, the South Downs National Park and the New Forest National Park, with a nature recovery corridor of hedgerow. It will wind its way through the central heart of Hampshire parishes and link woodlands, meadows, local nature reserves and Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs).

Hedgerows play an enormously important role in boosting biodiversity, capturing carbon, improving food production and enhancing our rural economy.

CPRE Hampshire has already worked for several years on restoration of hedgerows across the Hampshire countryside, educating and working with local communities, schools, landowners and farmers. The Hampshire Hedge will build on that work.

The hedge itself will start from Copythorne in the New Forest and finish at Compton, on the edge of the South Downs, near Winchester. It will provide an important link between fragmented green spaces and offer a beautiful landscape feature in one of the areas of Hampshire under most pressure from development.

If you would like know more about The Hampshire Hedge project  please contact either Alison Talbot at opsmanager@cprehampshire.org.uk or Ellie Banks at  ellie.banks@cprehampshire.org.uk.