Talk:Vincients Wood

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Sorry to have cut the final para to the bone, but it was just too "tourist-brochurey" to be true, and a long way from wikipedia's NPOV ideal! I also cut a couple of street names and de-wikilinked most of the others, apart from Moss Mead and Long Dragon Piece: I guess those two might get their own pages in due course, the others are much less likely. Apart from that, the article's fine, but it could do with a few more details/finishing touches, if anyone can help:

Do you have any photos of the wood? A good picture or two would be worth including (and worth 1,000 words of brochure-speak!). If not, perhaps you could get permission to upload the one from the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust website?
It looks as if Vincients qualifies as a Bluebell wood, so perhaps a link to/from that page might be relevant? It could be the start of a List of notable bluebell woods...
Does anyone know the derivation of the name "Vincients"? (It caught my eye first as a possible typo for "Vincent's")
OS Grid Reference? and/or external link to aerial photo/map?

SiGarb 13:19, 16 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Good call, I basically just reworded most of the text from the signs in the wood itself when I wrote the article. As for photos, I was going to get some last year when I made the article but this being England it started raining and hasn't stopped yet. Not long enough for me to be bothered to get out there and shoot some photos - I will as soon as I can though. Secondly, it probably is a bluebell wood, though I don't know what the qualifiers a wood needs to be declared bluebell! I checked around lots and everywhere that the wood is referred to, it is 'Vincients' as opposed to 'Vincient's'. I've never known it with an apostrophe anyway. All your suggestions are good, in all honesty. I'm gonna try to get some photos sometime this month. Dragonfly888 23:16, 17 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Don't take your pictures yet! I'd wait until (a) it stops raining and (b) it looks pretty! Large carpets of bluebells do a bluebell wood make, I reckon! The Wiltshire Wildlife trust pic shows lots, and I presume it must have been taken in this wood, or they wouldn't have used it on that page. So late April or early May will be the best time, I'd say. BTW, it wasn't just the apostrophe I was referring to, but the extra "i" in Vinc(i)ents. A local family, perhaps? SiGarb 00:21, 18 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have seen virtual bluebell rugs in there in summer! I had a look on the signs in the forest and they don't say anything about the derivation of the name. You're right, I should wait a while until I get some shots of the wood... Dragonfly888 21:31, 18 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]