It's not until the wet season that you can make out the early 19th century meandering course of Red Rise Brook in one of its un-restored sections. Its truncated oxbows are always there, though they're just easily overlooked, the years have seen them silt up and become colonized by heathland flora, although when water filled you can easily follow the streams pre Victorian course, which meandered similarly to Mill Lawn Brook up stream. I don't know if they intend to restore this section of stream at any point. Though, it's just dawned on that the bog woodland restoration program may cease after brexit, as it's an EU initiative, and EU funded too, so there maybe no more restoration projects in the forest. Another story the landscape will tell.
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