In the deer park at Dunham Massey, near the stables restarant there is a line of octagonal posts, with chains along the top. There is a theory that they date from arround the time that the National Trust took over the maintainance of the park.
Children play on the chains and over time a number of the posts have begun to lean in odd dirrections. So the task for today was to correct as far as possible these posts, without making too much of a mess.Seven volunteers turned out, took the turf off arround the posts, dug down 18-24 inches, straightened the posts - and in some cases moved them back into line, and then back filled the holes firming the soil in layers. We are told that there is evidence to suggest that this boundary was at some stage marked by wrought iron "parkland" fence, looking at the layout on the ground we suspected that this would have been curved.
The weather was in general favourable, though we ducked into the mill at lunch time to avoid a heavy slow moving shower.
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