Wychwood Forest Fair has been revived!

[Gerrard Winstanley]

Wychwood Forest Fair has been revived!
http://www.wychwoodproject.org/archive/forestupdate_20.pdf

You may remember that back in September 1997 The Land Is Ours organised a mass trespass on Newhill Plain in the heart of Lord Rotherwick's allegedly lawfully owned land. The trespass was to mark the very popular old forest fairs which were extinguished by the Churchill family in the 1800's.
see  http://www.tlio.org.uk/news/news11.html

Well, local people have taken up the baton and Wychwood Forest fairs are now happening annually at the time of the old Forest Fair - the third weekend in September 

The Wychwood Project works within the area that was once the Royal Hunting Forest of Wychwood.
http://www.wychwoodproject.org/archive/forestupdate_20.pdf
Our Goals: The Wychwood Project aims to raise awareness of the history and heritage of the Royal Hunting Forest of Wychwood, and to
encourage local people to take part in and benefit from restoration, conservation and enhancement of the rich mosaic of landscapes and habitats within the Forest boundaries.

Friends of Wychwood Forest can be contacted here
http://www.wychwoodproject.org/templates/friends.asp
Stuart Fox
Treasurer Friends of Wychwood
27 London Lane
Ascott under Wychwood
Oxon
OX7 6AN
And they run an email list too -  

One thing that seems to be missing, however, from their aims and objectives is public access to the Forest - the exceptional exclusion from which was why we originally organised the trespass!

Tony Gosling
www.tlio.org.uk