As a HWT City Branch member I'm always alert to wildlife and landscape interest in Hereford, accessible on foot or bicycle. I have enjoyed all aspects of the Ice Age Ponds Project, including the citizen science of mapping, surveying and sampling across western Herefordshire. I have been teaching for more than 40 years and it's great to be learning new knowledge, understanding and skills from others now.

Hereford Yazor Brooks Restoration Project volunteer Nicky Geeson discovered that in 2013 Historic England (English Heritage) compiled a list of "exceptional waterlogged heritage" that includes the Widemarsh floodplain area; they specifically mention the underlying prehistoric peat.

The Essex Arms Sports Ground (EASG) - site of a proposed urban wetland - is a hollow along the course of the City Brooks, on the Widemarsh floodplain; might it once have been an Ice Age Pond of some kind? An EASG pond would not fit the "classic" model of a kettle hole in hummocky moraine; it might have been a pond or marsh in the floodplain gravels of the pre-Devensian Wye or of the Yazor/Widemarsh/Eign Brook that took over this valley route after the Wye was diverted south into Breinton Gorge.