HS2 Clearance Works At Grim's Ditch Aylesbury Vale

HS2 contractors use a JCB 535-95 telehandler to load a truck with wood chip from mature trees recently felled around Grim’s Ditch for the HS2 high-speed rail link on 24th November 2020 in Aylesbury Vale, United Kingdom. Grim’s Ditch is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, an earthwork believed to originate in the 1st millennium BC bordered by historically important hedgerows, and the HS2 project is expected to destroy around one-third of a 350-metre section of the ditch.

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HS2 contractors use a JCB 535-95 telehandler to load a truck with wood chip from mature trees recently felled around Grim’s Ditch for the HS2 high-speed rail link on 24th November 2020 in Aylesbury Vale, United Kingdom. Grim’s Ditch is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, an earthwork believed to originate in the 1st millennium BC bordered by historically important hedgerows, and the HS2 project is expected to destroy around one-third of a 350-metre section of the ditch.