Hampshire: Winchester College nature reserve and Itchen Valley. Freshwater and land meeting.

We propose to work Winchester College’s Fallodon nature reserve and other freshwater and wetland sites along the River Itchen in Winchester. Vertigo moulinsiana occurs on the Itchen so any records will be useful. It is hoped that members of Winchester College Natural History Society will be able to join us – J R le B Tomlin made his conchological debut with a paper read to the Natural History Society when he was at the college.

 

Meet at St Catherine’s Park and Ride car park, grid ref. SU 487282, at 10:30 h. The current parking fee is £3.00 all day (coin machine). There are toilet facilities on-site. If travelling from North by car on A34 or M3, exit at junction 9 and follow extreme left-hand lane for Winchester/Southampton A33 for one mile to next roundabout. Follow Winchester A33 to next junction, take left for Winchester B3330, follow round for 0.5 mile under motorway, extreme left hand lane through two sets of traffic lights signed to St Cross, into Garnier Road, 50 yards turn right into St Catherine’s Park and Ride. From South on M3, take left slip road A31 at top of Twyford Down cutting, downhill left hand lane to traffic lights. Turn left for St Cross Garnier Road, in 50 yards turn right into St Catherine’s Park and Ride.

 

Winchester is well served by trains out of London Waterloo and also by cross-country services from the north via Oxford and Reading. From Winchester railway station, walk 100 yards down slope to your left and catch the Green Park and Ride bus to St Catherine’s Park and Ride, £2.70 return.

 

From the Park and Ride we will follow a footpath to the Itchen Navigation in Garnier Road, then up the footpath to Fallodon; more details later via the website.