The Heronsbridge School Artful Bodger’s Garden
Inspired by the beautiful local forests around the school, this woodland garden demonstrates the ancient craft of bodging, where the bodger would buy a stand of trees from the landowner and cut them down to make chair legs and other forestry products. The bodger would build a bodger’s hovel where he could shelter from the worst of the weather with the tools of his trade around him, including a pole lathe for turning the chair legs.
You can walk through the garden along a woodland path and pass by the bodger’s hovel to see it at close quarters. The garden includes seasonal woodland planting with primroses, ferns, and other local plants such as garlic chives that grow profusely in the region.