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A Day at the Annual Hedge Laying Competition

A Day at the Annual Hedge Laying
Competition

This video explores the rural skills of hedge laying and coppicing, and comes to you from the Friends of the Lake District's annual hedging competition which took place in March, 2025.

Through the competition, training days and volunteer events, they are showing how important hedgerows are for nature, farming and the landscape.

Friends of the Lake District

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Friends of the Lake District

We are an independent charity and the only membership organisation dedicated to protecting and enhancing Cumbria's landscapes. We believe that the Lake District offers some of the most spectacular and precious landscapes in England. We take action to protect and enhance the natural beauty of these landscapes for the benefit of local communities, visitors, wildlife and habitats.