Fletcher's Water once ran through here, one of the longest sections of straightened 'drain' in the forest, it's restored course now meandering just out of frame on the right. I'd not walked this way for quite a while until recently, and wow, what a transformation. The stream now meanders quietly through growing diversity, itself transformed from sterile to fecund with increasing variety in aquatic and wetland flora. As I say, Fletcher's Water was the straightest of drains, but also its woodland environs were choked with willow and spiky thicket, that too has been improved. Cleared of a lot of the invasive willow and thicket, the woodland has been opened up, it feels more balanced and can now develop through natural agency. And it all looks good too.
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