Last weekend, Stone Town Councillors Robert Townsend, Jason Meters, Tom Kelt, Ian Fordham, and Philip Leason donned their wellies and gardening gloves to pick up litter on Crown Meadow.
Despite the ground being extremely soggy underfoot, the sun made an appearance, and the group had a very productive morning. The litter picking team squelched their way through the meadow to pick up litter as well as removing a range of flotsam and jetsam from the river, filling about 15 bags with a huge number of bottles and cans, a pile of carpet tiles and even a ball cock!
Councillor Robert Townsend, Chairman of the Council’s Environment Committee, told A Little Bit of Stone:
“Crown Meadows is a special natural environment owned and managed by Stone Town Council, which provides a beautiful green space for residents of Stone and visitors.
It is an important area of flood plain to the River Trent and it is home to a range of wildlife, trees and flora.”
“The litter picking is part of the Town Council’s overall plan for continual maintenance and improvements to the meadow, with other projects planned for the Spring and Summer.”
About Crown Meadow:
Stone Town Council owns and manages the Crown Meadow Nature Reserve between the River Trent, the Trent, Mersey Canal, and Scotch Brook.
In recent years, this area has greatly improved with the addition of a disabled-friendly access bridge, new footpaths, a small amphitheatre, and two wetland scrapes heavily planted with indigenous wildflowers.
There’s a small, free car park giving access to the meadow, and it can also easily be accessed via the canal towpath – just up from the Star.
From the town, if you walk alongside the former Crown Street garage and cross the bridge by Trentside Clinic, you can access the amphitheatre and then on to the meadow itself.
