Ashfield Pond and Local Area
There are a number of ponds of various sizes in the surrounding area including Ashfield pond (53°51′30″N 3°01′43″W / 53.8582°N 3.0286°W / 53.8582; -3.0286), Dumfries Place pond (53°51′09″N 3°01′25″W / 53.8525°N 3.0236°W / 53.8525; -3.0236) and Kilmory Place pond (53°51′13″N 3°01′27″W / 53.8536°N 3.0241°W / 53.8536; -3.0241) as well as ponds on Robins Lane.
Ashfield pond, which is located to the north of Ashfield Road by Blackpool and The Fylde College Bispham campus. The Heritage Lottery Fund gave a grant of £22,800 to the Kincraig Pond Heritage Group and the Kincraig Neighbourhood Play Steering Group as part of a Community Heritage Project for the local area and Ashfield pond. The projects aim being to "restore the pond and surrounding area, research and record history of the local area, promote a greater awareness amongst local residents of the historical and environmental value of the local area." In 2006 the Kincraig Neighbourhood Play Steering Group received a £25,000 grant from the British Governments Living Spaces programme toward restoration work on Ashfield pond and the surrounding area as well as toward replanting to preserve the natural habitats for plants and animal species. Partly funded also by Blackpool Council and the local Residents Association, a new viewing platform was erected by Ashfield pond.
Dumfries Place pond iw part of an ecological area within 3-acre (12,000 m2) Kincraig Business Park which opened in summer 2008 and has an adjoining ecological area including the pond as well as 0.7 acres (2,800 m2) set aside purely for wildlife.
Read more about this topic: Kincraig Lake Ecological Reserve
Famous quotes containing the words pond, local and/or area:
“What if all ponds were shallow? Would it not react on the minds of men? I am thankful that this pond was made deep and pure for a symbol. While men believe in the infinite some ponds will be thought to be bottomless.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“While it may not heighten our sympathy, wit widens our horizons by its flashes, revealing remote hidden affiliations and drawing laughter from far afield; humor, in contrast, strikes up fellow feeling, and though it does not leap so much across time and space, enriches our insight into the universal in familiar things, lending it a local habitation and a name.”
—Marie Collins Swabey. Comic Laughter, ch. 5, Yale University Press (1961)
“I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids
Sprouting despondently at area gates.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)