Entrance board to RSPB nature reseve - raised image giving a flavour of the wildlife found on the reserve can be seen and accessed by visitors with a range of abilities Cotswolds Water Park "Discovery Trail" post from which children can collect rubbings Memorial benches can be designed by the grandchildren. We can carve their pictures and words into "Granny's Bench" South West Water - Archaeology site marker posts on Dartmoor, each with a unique rubbing to collect The story teller's "Throne" placed in front of a gathering point in a country park in Sidmouth Information board showing maps and wildlife found in Kilminorth Woods in Cornwall Forest Enterprise - Bird of Prey View Point entrance marked with timber spires East Devon District Council - Combined orienteering course and Tree Seed Discovery Trail from which tree seed rubbings can be collected
"The Throne" part of a storytelling area in Sidmouth Part of an interpretation handrail in an RSPB reserve in Somerset. The rail has species identification and some local children's poetry carved into it All ability trail in Hampshire signed using animal tracks rather than coloured dots Chris Packham unveils the new all ability facilities at Ham Wall, RSPB Nature Reserve in Somerset All ability picnic bench suitable for rural and metropolitan sites Finger posts showing the three nature trails around Kilminorth Woods in Looe, Cornwall Timber housing for information board containing a combination of braille, raised text and images and traditional information panels Visitors touching as well as seeing the three dimensional graphics on an RSPB information board

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Visitors at an RSPB reserve reading children's poetry carved into the handrail as they walk around the site Facilities are designed to be accessible to people with a range of abilities A visitor finds their way on a timber map board by the River Colne

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 Visitors enjoying the view from the Bird of Prey View Point on Haldon Hill in Devon Visitors gossiping on a group of benches made from a single chestnut trunk On a viewing platform over looking the mudflats of the Otter Estuary bird tracks and the species which make them are identified. Visitors have to follow the tracks across the board to find the species that made them.
Dragonfly larve applied to boardwalk surface using recycled car tyre crumb and resin - non-slip interpretation

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Historical events carved into tree slice and labeled to the correct growth ring. Tree history
 Using stainless steel against a timber spire gives an attractive entrance sign Tale Valley Trust members beside a reserve entrance sign Timber jigsaw puzzle at Stover Country Park, Newton Abbot, Devon Delivering a carved throne to Stover Country Park in Devon
Large timber information boards explaining how farmers are helping to improve the local river.

The finger posts for trails marked with animal tracks before installation on a National Trust site in Devon.

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The lifecycle of the salmon is carved into this bench beside the River Okement, an important spawning tributary, in Devon.
 Carved handrail on Pig bridge in Okehampton, built recently to replace the bridge lost in flooding forty years earlier. Visitors in wheel chairs can make use of the board walks at Ham Wall in Somerset (RSPB). Children's poems etched on handrail surface.

Curvy Boardwalks at Emberton Country Park

Bird identifcation boards beside the River Otter. Visitors follow tracks across the board to identify local birds.

A timber boardwalk curves through a wetland site in Emberton Country Park. Steam-bent handrails complete the sinuous curves through this wetland.
 Way-marking posts before installation. Trails are marked with the tracks of local species rather than with coloured dots. Nature trails or way-marking with a difference. Detail from some carved timber bird identification boards in East Devon.
Three large duck prints on the wall beside Festival Pier in London. Each timber print is covered with the images of local wildlife found in and around the Thames. Visitors are attracted down steps to the Thames foreshore by three large duck prints, each with wildlife species carved into them.

Picnic seating for countryside or town settings made from cedar
 Part of the back rest of a memorial bench next to a river in Devon showing the carvings of salmon. Each of these five vertical boards has carvings of local tree species, their leaf and seed shapes and their mythological properties. The hand rail in an RSPB reserve helps less mobile visitors gain access to the reserve and doubles as an information source with carvings of local species and braille labels. Excellent interpretation for nature trails.

Zigzag picnic bench built into hillside in Lily Hill Country Park

The lifecycle of the otter is carved into the backrest of this bench beside the River Okement in Devon.

Picnic Seating in Totnes by the River

Visitors of all abilities enjoying facilities in an RSPB reserve in Somerset.

Zig-zag picnic seating, each level is a seat at one end and a table at the other. Lily Hill Park, Bracknell.

Entrance to aerial walkway with carved handrails
Information board with map and raised text for visitors with limited sight A dozen posts on a lake site - each has carvings of a bird shape, a beak and footprints. Visitors can collect rubbings of these carvings in a trail leaflet. Borough of Poole timber sign welcoming visitors to Haymoor Bottom Dog walkers stopping to chat on a group of seats made from a single chestnut trunk East Devon District Council - Gossiping Point in Sidmouth Poem about the legend of the Giant from East Cornwall carved into a timber information board Tale Valley Trust - Close up of the etched image on timber boards for river restoration site The local trees and their mythological properties are carved into these timber boards
Timber discs carved with a series of foodchains - part of an educational trail designed for a country park in East Devon The paths through Kilminorth Woods, Looe are carved onto this timber information board "The Acorn Walk" through a Devon Wildlife Trust nature reserve is marked with carved acorns Using raised images and braille text local species can be portrayed and identified for those with little or no sight An orienteering course in Devon which doubles as a nature trail from which visitors can collect rubbings of seeds carved into the posts Four adults can sit on "The Kissing Bench" each facing the opposite direction to their neighbours A young visitor interacts with the footprints carved into a bench seat One of a series of map boards beside the River Colne

Greenspace Designs Limited - We have been designing, manufacturing and installing unique
boardwalks, benches, sign boards and trails using local materials in a sustainable way for fifteen years.

We deliver projects on a range of scales from one-off garden benches to interactive, multi-use trails
incorporating furniture, signs, boardwalks, platforms and bridges.

Our work is community centred and designed to be accessible to as wide a range of
ages and abilities as practically possible.

We can carve timber on your site to create features or furniture or we can remove and season timber
and bring back furniture meade from your own wood.

On this website are some examples of our work - contact us to talk about your project.


Tel: 01837 861664 Fax: 01837 861646 Email: info@greenspace.co.uk

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Greenspace Designs Limited Reg. Company No. 4184246
Linnacombe, Sourton, Okehampton EX20 4HX
Tel: 44(0)1837 861664 Fax: 44(0)1837 861646 Email: info@greenspace.co.uk

A great company for making boardwalks, benches, signboards, interpretation materials, education packs, bridges, walkways, dipping platforms, jetties, disabled access structures, raised boardwalks, aerial walkways, handrails, carved information boards, carved benches, memorial benches, kissing benches, picnic benches, hillside benches, group seating features, gathering points, storytelling areas, poetry trails, nature trails, tree trails, bird identifcation, tree leaf and seed trails, interactive interpretation trails. Designed and created by Tom Hills, artwork by Mike Langman, making your ideas come to life in your greenspace. We use cedar, oak, sweet chestnut, larch, macrocarpa - always from British grown trees. We make use of windblown timber and can take the timber from your site to make furniture for your visitors. Although we develop one off projects we have a series of popular designs available on our products sheets. Greenspace Designs Ltd.