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Hi Dave,
Temple Wood is off the A15 between Sleaford and Bourne. Itcan be accessed from two points but both have very limited car parking - 4 cars maximum.
Leave the A15 at Aslackby and drive through the village. Temple Wood entance is 500 metres before the end of the road at Folkingham airfield; now a scrap yard.
Alternatively turn west off the A15 at the Rippingale/ Kirkby Underwood crossroads. Proceed from cross roads for just over 2 miles through the village and park on the Callan's Lane car park on the left. From here you can either explore Callan's Lane Wood or walk up the hill for 200 meteres and then accross to Temple Wood on a footpath through ELS farmland.
Further down the road is over 100 acres of rough grassland locally known as Hawthorpe Set Aside which is adjacent to the wood. This area often attracts raptors including SE Owls and has a very healthy breeding population of Meadow pipits and skylarks. Last summer several pairs of Curlew and Lapwing also attempted to nest.
the whole area is also rich in mammals with a very large herd of fallow deer, muntjac, badgers and foxes etc.
If you go I hope you enjoy it.
Ian
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