Written by Oonagh French, Water Guardians Project Officer
As I meander through urban streets of Chippenham trying to find where I had organised to meet Alex and Lily, I imagined the brook that we were about to walk along. I knew there was a park on its banks from the map but in this central urban location I hadn’t imagined much more than a well mowed grass bank rolling down to the stream with a few intervals of willows, reeds and possibly some plastic bottles for us to tut at! I knew that I had recruited some enthusiastic and diligent volunteers in Alex and Lily from our email exchanges but what I had not banked on was the little gem of a brook I was about to be shown.