Elmbridge Borough Council

Make room for mushrooms!0
- Environment, News
- 2nd November 2020
Does this look like a gathering of Coprinus comatus to you? Or do you know them by any of their other names – shaggy ink cap, lawyer’s wig or shaggy mane? They were spotted by one of our Good Life deliverers in a front garden in Woodstock Lane North, Long Ditton. The fungi, a gilled
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Grey heron goes fishing 0
- Environment, News
- 1st August 2020
This statuesque figure (see picture below) visited the good folk of Ditton Reach the other day. The grey heron, which was strutting its stuff along the riverbank in Long Ditton, was snapped by Good Life deliverer Irene Reece. “The heron lives in Home Park but we have no idea if they have nested as
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The Limping Fox in Long Ditton reopens with new guidelines 0
- Food, News
- 29th July 2020
The Limping Fox in Long Ditton is reopening today (Wednesday). The pub, in Rushett Road, known for its roast dinners, large garden and outdoor cinema nights, has been closed since March. There are new opening hours initially: Wednesday and Thursday, 4-11pm; Friday and Saturday, noon to 11.30pm; Sunday, noon to 10.30pm. The owners, Luke and
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All welcome to The Hogs first competitive game of the season 0
- News, Sport
- 23rd July 2020
The Hogs are holding their first competitive cricket fixture of the season on Saturday (July 25) and you and your chums are invited. A bar will be open at the Long Ditton Cricket Club ground off Betts Way, and everyone is welcome to bring their own picnics and sit around the outfield and enjoy watching
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Take part in Long Ditton’s fundraising scarecrow trail 0
- Arts, Environment, News
- 2nd July 2020
Scarecrows will be popping up all over Long Ditton in July as part of a fundraiser for two local schools. The Friends of Long Ditton Infants and Long Ditton St Mary’s Junior School is staging a scarecrow trail in and around the village with prizes to be won for the top three creations. It’s £5
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Harmful tree pest spotted in nature reserves 0
- Environment, News
- 20th June 2020
Nests of damaging oak processionary moths have been discovered in two local nature reserves. People have reported sightings in Berrylands Nature Reserve and Stokes Field nature reserve in Long Ditton. After a nest was spotted on a tree in the Berrylands reserve, further nests were found. Kingston Council will be conducting additional surveys of the
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