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Ogden Water Country Park & Nature Reserve HX2 8YA
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Ogden Water Country Park offers a superb opportunity to escape from the stresses and strains of everyday life. Over 250,000 people visit Ogden Water every year for picnics, walking, family outings and nature activities Why not enjoy a picnic at one of our picnic tables, whilst taking in the stunning views. View location on Streetmap

Friends of Ogden Water

The AGM and an SGM of the Friends of Ogden Water was held on 22nd March 2012

It was resolved to dissolve the Friends and distribute the funds to the Watch Group and to a project to create a flagged picnic area at Ogden.

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1st March. Chris Sutcliffe our Ranger reports:

A car pulled the two sets of gates off in a bid to get from the Withens Old Road and out across Ogden dam. In the process 2 of the gates remained intact, 2 suffered light damage and 2 have been smashed in half. If you have any information about this vandalism, please let the police know via 101.

Thanks to the guys from E Feather Ltd and the Countryside Work Team we now have some gates back on.

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Feathers have been up and fabricated some new swivel pins and managed to weld the 2 gates with light damage. This means that both ends of the dam have 2 gates on for the main vehicle access but there are no pedestrian gates.

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Chris Kiddle walked up the stream between Great Scar and White Wall End, Ogden after the rain. He took several photographs of valley, working up from the wood to the bridge over the dam wall on the moor.

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Crucial Friends meeting January 19th

'Friends' held a meeting on the 19th January to consider either winding up the Friends, carrying on, or putting in abeyance for a period of time.
All Friends were invited to attend this important meeting, and one did. The only feedback we had was the 'hope that Friends continued'.
Seven committee members were present and decided that it will be proposed that the Friends should be dissolved at the AGM, to be held on the 22nd March in the schoolroom at Ogden, 7pm. Only three of the committee indicated that they might possibly volunteer to serve on a new committee, but only one in some official capacity.
In the probable event that there is no concerted support from the floor to form a new committee at the AGM, it will proposed to formally dissolve the Friends according to the constitution.
We have had a good innings, enjoyed it immensely and done lots of great things for Ogden Water in the past few years.
It is the intention that in the event that Friends is dissolved, then the present funds will still be used for Ogden Water projects.
Maybe in a few years, the time might be right for a new team to have go…..
The Committee.

6th December, a few hardy souls did a 1½ hour walk up to the windmills, led by Moy Cash from Calderdale Countryside. Afterwards all had mulled wine and mince pies! Very enjoyable!

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Click here to see much bigger photos!

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Download the Calderdale Wildside Booklet to find out what's going on in Calderdale!

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Should we be feeding the Ogden Ducks? White bread is not really good for them. See this website:

http://www.liveducks.com/bread.html

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Do you have any anecdotes, pictures, or short stories of trips to Ogden in the past, ie. donkeys years ago! If you have, please get in touch with Ranger Ted.

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If you are planning to bring a party of people on a visit to Ogden Water, you could contact the Ranger to make sure the facilities will be available when you come.

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The Visitor Centre is now open weekends and school holidays only.

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Also see Whats On

Mini Beast Hotel Mini Beast Hotel Mini Beast Hotel

A Mini Beast Hotel!

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Twitter, 06/08/10
The strange apparatus on the Promenade over the past few weeks has been a drilling rig. The drill has been taking cores of the substrate right into the heart of the dam (upto a depth of 30metres). These cores will help determine the exact nature of the dam embankment and more importantly, after laboratory tests, its stability. Interestingly, at the eastern end they managed to happily drill down to 28metres, but on the western side, they could only drill to 15m before hitting what appeared to be bedrock. These works could be the harbinger of extensive and expensive modifications to the embankment at Ogden.
Robin D

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Have a look at the 1965 Yorkshire Film Archive film, a 20 min film about Isaac Button, Soil Hill Pottery.

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The Permanent Orienteering Course maps are available at the Visitor Centre. £1.50 each. They are proving very popular, particularly with school groups.

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There are also some free leaflets about orienteering in the Visitor Centre.

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