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  • Balsam Bashing Saturday 11 July from 9.30am
    Help needed please Brightling has increasing areas of a potentially invasive plant growing along our riverbanks and roadside verges. It spreads quickly, particularly along water courses where its seeds float downstream, and can outcompete native plants both by colonising large areas of ground, and by diverting pollinators away from other plants that flower at the … Continued
  • Road Closure – Rectory Hill, Friday 3 July
    Rectory Hill will be closed from 09:30 to 15:30 on Friday 3 July to enable work by Openreach. Diversion will be in operation.
  • Forest Walks Contact Details
    Doug Edworthy, Brightling and Dallington Tree Warden First walk, Sunday July 12th 2026 treewarden@dallington.org.uk 07711 090925
  • Forest Walks Resume
    Doug Edworthy, our Tree Warden had been “signed off” for a while due to a back problem, but has now been cleared to start taking his popular walks around Dallington Forest. The first one is Sunday July 12th. Contact Doug directly to book a place and he will, by return, let you now time and … Continued
  • WATER OUTAGE – UPDATE
    Saturday 14:54 Bottled water is now available for collection at the village hall

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