which is cut back every 5 to 8 years to create dense bushy growth for birds such as blackcaps. The dense thorny blackthorn coppice also gives protection to the South facing chalk bank behind it and the chalk pool just beyond.
>> Turn right. Then after a short distance, right again. This will take you to Stave Hill itself. Turn right and walk along the base of the hill.
<) Lime trees growing in the grass, and beyond them on the Stave Hill boundary a hedge layed in 2006.