Clent Hills Bluebells Video

Adventure Films

27 Apr

It’s almost May, which means that it’s Clent Hills Bluebells time. An annual extravaganza of colour comes to my local hills and woodlands, and I get out with my video camera and sit in them while drinking a coffee. It’s a hard life, isn’t it?

Clent Hills Bluebells

This short film was shot in Uffmoor Woods, which sits in the shadow of the Clent Hills in Worcestershire. I don’t need to say any more than that. If it’s late April or early May, head there for a walk and you’ll find the bluebells. I don’t know what it is about the area, (maybe the soil?) but it can be pretty crazy some years, a real spectacle. Yes, this knuckle-dragging, deadlifting, rough, bearded, salty war veteran like bluebells. What can I say? And the Clent Hills has plenty of them.

Uffmoor Woods has a free car park, and is looked after by the Woodland Trust. It’s a great place to spend a few hours, wandering through the 200+ acre wood, looking out for those elusive Uffmoor deer as you go.

Technically, maybe it’s not the Clent Hills proper, but it’s good enough, and I’m pretty sure that rampant bluebell growth is something to do with the shade the hills offer, and the wet boggy ground from the River Strour that streams through. Take your wellies!

So to me, they’re Clent Hills Bluebells, whether they’re near the summit, or down in the woods.

Enjoy.