Merry Lees
Selected Wild Place / Other Wild Places / Public Rights of Way / VC55 boundary
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This is a recent (1990’s) extension to Mossdale Meadows. This extension was given to the Town Council by the developers of the Meridian Leisure Complex having stripped the area of the top soil / overburden to reveal a large blue clay area. This has been excavated and used to seal the area of the Meridian Leisure complex which formally was a sewage treatment works built in the 1920’s.
All the land forming Mossdale Meadows and Merry Lees was mostly untouched apart from a few settlement tanks and was surrounded by a screen of poplar trees, a few of which still remain. Evidence of ridge and furrows indicate that it has been extensively farmed in the past. Post war use has only been for grazing cattle. Recently a “new” scheme of grass cutting has left several areas uncut which now produces a fine meadow.
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