Hyde 900 - TrustNews March 10
Trout return to Nuns’ Stream
A community project in partnership between Hyde900, the Environment Agency, Winchester City Council, Hampshire Wildlife Trust and the Wild Trout Trust has enhanced the Nuns’ Stream where it runs alongside Saxon Road and the Abbey ruins, from Monk’s Road to King Alfred Terrace. The work has provided a better environment for chalkstream wildlife and made it a more interesting and attractive feature of daily life in Hyde. With the help of local volunteers a new natural bank has been created and gravel added to provide spawning grounds for fish. It seems that the changes have had a much more rapid effect than anyone expected! In December, just days after the work had been completed, wild brown trout were spotted spawning in the stream on the new gravel by Lawrence Talks, local resident of Hyde and officer with the Environment Agency that led the project. You can even see the trout on YouTube, search under ‘wild brown trout Nuns’ Stream’!
Treasures of Hyde Abbey Exhibition,
Winchester Discovery Centre,
6 March - 2 May
Founded for the burial of King Alfred the Great in 1110, Hyde Abbey grew to be one of the richest and most powerful monastic houses in the country. Treasures of Hyde Abbey is the first event in a year of celebrations exploring the legacy of the abbey and celebrating the people and heritage of this well-loved Winchester ‘suburb’ of today. The exhibition will be colourful and interactive, giving visitors the opportunity to discover the scale of the abbey and some of the people who lived in and around it. It will bring together in one place for the first time in five centuries a selection of late Saxon and medieval treasures from the abbey, loaned by national institutions including the British Library, the Bodleian Library and the V&A Museum. Treasures of Hyde Abbey is supported by grants from the Heritage Lottery Fund and WCC and is sponsored by Denplan, 3PB Barristers, Beachcroft solicitors and The Old Vine, Winchester. Admission is free
