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A new "front door" to Rye Meadows.

A new "front door" to Rye Meadows.

July 24th 2026 One of the two entry points to Rye Meadows is via the Public Footpath 596 from Fairholme Crescent. In the past is has had a wooden stile, farm gate and fencing, then a wide pedestrian gate and fencin Read more

No BBQs or Fires please

No BBQs or Fires please

July 24th 2026 During this extended period of hot dry weather coupled with the Summer holidays people might be tempted to take a disposable BBQ into Rye Meadows or Ashtead Common. Please do NOT. With the grass so Read more

Allan Mornement

Allan Mornement

July 24th 2026 Allan passed away on 5th November 2025. Allan was an early volunteer for Rye Meadows and was for a long time Treasurer of the Friends of Ashtead Rye Meadows Wetlands. In 2016 when the commemoration Read more

Hedge Laying - a new skill for the volunteers

Hedge Laying - a new skill for the volunteers

April 12th 2026 This Spring, the volunteers set about laying an old hedge in Ashtead Woods Road that is the boundary with Tomletts and Seamers fields. Having laid a blackthorn hedge in 2024/2025 (see below) we Read more

Cutting the fields delayed another year

Cutting the fields delayed another year

November 12th 2025 The picture above is of the field Winter Meadow when it had been cut for haymaking in 2016. Since then it and the other fields of Rye Meadows have been cut annually until some three years ago when Read more

Daphne Burnett awarded Honorary Membership of Surrey Wildlife Trust

Daphne Burnett awarded Honorary Membership of Surrey Wildlife Trust

November 2nd 2025 Daphne Burnett has always been a dedicated supporter of protecting wildlife and encouraging biodiversity, Having bought the land in Ashtead from the estate of the late Lord Barnby she set about Read more

Surrey Wildlife Trust say "New land aquisition ensures future of wetland site"

Surrey Wildlife Trust say "New land aquisition ensures future of wetland site"

September 29th 2025 Surrey Wildlife Trust’s mission to improve and connect more habitats for wildlife in Surrey has received a boost thanks to the acquisition this autumn of 17 acres of land at Ashtead Rye Meadows Read more

Rocketspark

Rocketspark

August 4th 2025 Rye Meadows switched its web site from a Joomla! based application to Rocketspark some three years ago. Ably assisted by Les Huett who designed the present site we have continued to use the Read more

Volunteering despite the poor weather

Volunteering despite the poor weather

October 10th 2024 The last volunteering day was on 8th October and it was one of those days the weatherman says will be "showery". The picture above of a bucolic scene with the volunteers enjoying a coffee and a chat Read more

How to find Ashtead Rye Meadows (Google Maps)

Rye Meadows - printable map

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