31/07/2026
It’s - so we are celebrating our own rangers who work 365 days a year to conserve and care for more than 1,000 acres of diverse habitats: from woodland, heathland, grassland, ponds, streams and bogs, including SSSI and SAC designated ancient heathland and acid grassland, which are all home to a diversity of wildlife.
Their duties include:
Estates Team. Building seasonal ponds and bare ground scrapes
Tree safety work for public safety, tree health and enhance biodiversity, from pruning, pollarding to deadwood management
Path and horse rides maintenance: installing benches and fences; water management and ditching; maintaining historic buildings and of course the vehicles and equipment.
Litter picking, emptying bines, clearing fly tips – at a cost of more than £150,000 a year.
Conservation. Leading practical land management volunteer sessions from scrub bashing to clearing Beverley Brook, and guided walks and talks .
Monitoring camera trap footage and completing wildlife surveys to identify trends year-on-year which can then be used to influence land management practices and support grant applications.
Regular habitat surveys which will see them out and about completing a botany or insect survey on one of the Commons’ 15 grassland sites.
Woodland thinning, clearing invasive vegetation
Commons Security Our team of six, all ex-military, mounted keepers patrol the Commons all year round between dawn and dusk – relying on four-legged horsepower for the past 70 years, as efficient way to cover the varied terrain.
Keepers deal with searches for missing children, medical emergencies – they are all first-aid trained – to dealing with off-piste cyclists, fly tips and, more seriously, fires.
Playing fields. Some 40 acres adjacent to the A3 are used for a variety of sports – football, rugby, cricket, are home to local teams and are host to the Rosslyn Park National School (Rugby) 7s.
The playing fields team keeps pitches in tip-top condition, by mowing, line-marking, general maintenance.
