Month: October 2025

Friends’ volunteers have been busy by the River Chor in the Park recently. Firstly, by sampling the river for invertebrate species indicative of river water quality under the Riverfly  [click here ] initiative, meaning this has now been fully started. Pictured below some of our members are carefully counting the range of species caught so a ‘score’ can be calculated and recorded on the national database.

Secondly, Friends’ volunteers have been busy staining the handrails of a footbridge that connects the Park with the Farthings housing estate. Pictured below is the work in progress and the finished result.

This means that over the last two years our members have stained or painted all 12 footbridges in the Park. The materials we used were kindly donated by Chorley Council.

The path between the Park Road Gates and the steps leading to the reedbed lookout has become muddy each winter in recent years.  First encroaching grass and overhanging vegetation needed to be cleared. Then a layer of fine black limestone was spread over the path surface.

The limestone was then compacted to complete the job – a good morning’s work for the combined team of Friends’ volunteers and Council staff.