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-Planting a new hedge.+_Planting a new hedge._
  
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-Gorgeous film about hedgegrow conservation in Wales, where there is 88,000km of hedges - enough to encircle the earth twice.+_Gorgeous film about hedgegrow conservation in Wales, where there is 88,000km of hedges - enough to encircle the earth twice._
  
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-A recently-laid hedge, Midland style – stems laid diagonally against vertical stakes.+_A recently-laid hedge, Midland style – stems laid diagonally against vertical stakes._
  
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-Typical English countryside with hedgerows.+_Typical English countryside with hedgerows._
  
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-Short film about hedging in Northamptonshire in 1942, made by the Ministry of Agriculture+_Short film about hedging in Northamptonshire in 1942, made by the Ministry of Agriculture_
  
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-Slasher and billhook.+_Slasher and billhook._
  
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-Stems are cut almost all the way through to lay them.+_Stems are cut almost all the way through to lay them._
  
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-Laying a neglected hedge that's been left to grow for 30-40 years. Much more difficult, needs a chainsaw as a well as a billhook.+_Laying a neglected hedge that's been left to grow for 30-40 years. Much more difficult, needs a chainsaw as a well as a billhook._
  
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-A stone-faced Devon hedge-bank. Pic: [Tom Hynes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stone_Faced_Hedge_Beaford.JPG) [CC BY-S 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)+_A stone-faced Devon hedge-bank. Pic: [Tom Hynes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stone_Faced_Hedge_Beaford.JPG) [CC BY-S 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)_
  
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 ## Further resources ## Further resources
  
 +- [National Hedgelaying Society](https://www.hedgelaying.org.uk/)
 +- [Hedgelink](https://hedgelink.org.uk/) - organisation set up to conserve the UK's hedgerow heritage
 +- [Cornish Hedges](https://www.cornishhedges.co.uk/) - huge resource on everything to do with Cornish hedges (which are different due to their stone face, earth-banks with trees and shrubs above)
 +- [Hedgerow Survey Handbook](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hedgerow-survey-handbook) 
 +- [Hedgerow Conervation](https://www.amull.co.uk/hedgecons.htm)
 +- [A Load of Old Billhooks](https://www.billhooks.co.uk/) - all about billhooks
 +- [Illustrated guide to hedgerow network restoration](https://www.farminguk.com/content/knowledge/TIN085.pdf)
 +- [Naturenet](https://naturenet.net/trees/hedgerow/) - attempt to interpret the hedgerows regulations
  
  
-## Specialist(s)+ 
 +## Specialist curators of this topic
  
  
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