Cally Boundaries Project
 
Work Gets Underway on Gatehouse Project

The Gatehouse Development Initiative has wasted no time in getting on with an ambitious project to restore important features of the historic Designed Landscape of Cally. Thanks to grants received from The Heritage Lottery Fund and Leader, volunteers are already hard at work clearing vegetation growing on and around the boundary dyke on the road into Gatehouse. Volunteers from Gatehouse have been joined by a group of young volunteers mostly from Stranraer, who work with the Galloway Forest Volunteers. Once the work to clear the dykes has been completed professional dykers will come in to repair sections of dyke.

Gatehouse Development Initiative Chairman David Steel said. “The volunteers are doing a great job. Just clearing away the vegetation which has grown up over the years has made a large improvement. The more work the volunteers do the better it will be for the dykers. However, this project is not just about repairing stretches of dyke it is also about offering training opportunities in dyke building and volunteer days for amateur dykers”

The Cally Boundaries project will last for two years. There will be projects both within the Cally Woods and to parts of the boundary dykes.

Cally Boundaries funding Award.