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Projects of the year Land Trust Annual Review 2019

Fallen for the Fallen at
Countess of Chester Country Park

At the Land Trust we are incredibly proud of the The wood was used to create a walking trail
work our volunteers accomplish on our sites. of carved poppies beginning at the Upton War
They really go the extra mile and nowhere is this Memorial and finishing at a beautiful carved
more evident than our site at Countess of Chester bench in the Countess of Chester Country Park. “ Fallen for the Fallen
Country Park, where the site’s passionate Friends Andy Scargill, from The Friends of Countess grew out of a simple wish
Of Group marked the centenary of the end of of Chester, said: “Fallen for the Fallen grew out
World War One with their Fallen for the Fallen trail. of a simple wish to somehow remember the to somehow remember
The three kilometre trail that runs through the 27 servicemen on the war memorial at Upton, the 27 servicemen on the
streets of Upton-by-Chester, is designed to spark who died in what can only be described as
memories, not only of those who died during the the unimaginable horror of the killing fields of war memorial at Upton...”
Great War, and whose names are on the Upton France, 100 years ago.
War memorial, but also of those who came back, “The journey began with a tree being felled in a
often physically or mentally scarred. suburban road in Upton and it has ended with a
The project used a cedar tree from the Upton permanent memory and a fitting tribute to those
area, planted about the time of the Great War, which who fell, for us, 100 years ago.”
had come to the end of its life and had to be felled.

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