Hedge Hoardings

Hedge hoardings is a walk around Kings Hedges, following the ward’s ancient hedgerows, discovering plants and foraging. Led by artist Hermione Spriggs and local forager and historian Cab Davidson, this event explores hedges as ‘edible places’ that offer a bounty of wild food to humans and other animals. Our walk takes in the ward’s oldest remaining stretch of hedgerow, traces the path of ghost-hedges, and ends in the centre of Kings Hedges where a new work of public art is being developed.

For thousands of years, hedgerow has been planted and maintained as a human boundary-marker, demarcating parish boundaries, privately owned fields and common land. The area of North Cambridge, now known as Kings Hedges, took its name from a royal hunting ground where hedges were planted to guide the movement of wild animals, making them easier to catch. In contemporary Kings Hedges, ancient hedgerow provides a safe haven for the city’s wild animals, also hosting a rich biodiversity of edible plant species for the human forager.

For this historical foraging walk and to find out more about the foraging code and protecting plants and wildlife, come wearing comfortable footwear and clothing fit for the weather. This walk is not circular, so we advise using public transport to reach our meeting place. The Busway runs directly from Cambridge North Station to Orchard Park East.

This event is being held as part of Open Cambridge 2021, which will take place from 10 - 19 September 2021.

For further information on Open Cambridge events please visit www.opencambridge.cam.ac.uk

This walk will be run according to the government safety guidance in place at the time. Updated information about the walk will be posted on Eventbrite.

Currently: If in the last 10 days you, anyone in your household or support bubble have had any symptoms of coronavirus (a high temperature, a new, continuous cough or a loss or change to your sense of smell or taste), have tested positive for coronavirus or have been told by NHS Test and Trace that you have been in contact with a person with coronavirus please do not attend the walk. Simply let us know as soon as you can and we can allocate your space to another person.

We will be observing social distancing on the walk, each household/bubble must keep 2m apart, where this is not possible the 1m plus rule will be followed. Despite government guidelines allowing for groups of up to 30 people on events such as ours, we will be limiting the walk numbers to 15 participants or less to make it easier to socially distance.

We also ask that when the group is in close proximity discussing plants or mushrooms that masks are worn. These can be removed when walking or when the group is more dispersed.

Everyone on the walk will be required to wear a face mask, so we kindly ask that you bring your own.

Please arrive promptly. Upon arrival to the walk leader will need to confirm a name and contact phone number for each group, for the NHS track and trace system.

Campkin Road is part of Resonance-Cambridge, the public art programme commissioned by Cambridge Investment Partnership.

Further information about the creative programme can be found at www.resonance-cambridge.co.uk/developments/campkin-road/