The waymarked path leading from Peveril Drive, West Bridgford up the slope to Sharphill Wood, just glimpsed on the skyline, silhouetted against misty winter sunshine.

Our walking party head-off on the main path, along the western edge of the wood. This and other paths in the wood have been re-laid by work party volunteers.

After several days of persistent hard frosts, the wood presents a very bare, wintery scene! Although there was life about: we saw fieldfares and redwings feeding on fallen crab apples.

Looking back along the woodland margin from near the southern end of the wood. The Friends of Sharphill Wood hope to be able to reinstate the original mixed hedgerow (hawthorn, blackthorn and wild rose) along the wood’s boundary.

The new gate at the south end of Sharphill Wood LNR. The waymarked path from here leads down to the A52 and Landmere Lane.

View across the fields from the eastern side of the wood, towards Edwalton. The slope here will be preserved but the level fields beyond are designated for housing.

The path back up through the eastern side of the wood.

Natural tree intergrowth: a branch from the tree on the right grew across the trunk of the other tree, whose bark in turn grew to engulf it.

And so back to the Sharphill Wood LNR gate at the hill top, to regain the path to Peveril Drive.