WORK is due to start on improvements at Mouldon Hill Country Park which are being funded by Network Rail’s Greater Western Programme. This effort forms part of the Swindon Forest Meadow project, a partnership project between Swindon Borough Council and Wiltshire Wildlife Trust running over three years. The programme will fund work to improve the habitats on the tree mound within Mouldon Hill Country Park planted in 1990, since when only a small amount of management has taken place. The planned work includes managing scrub areas on the tree mound, thinning ash tree plantations, widening rides to create new wildlife habitats and more space for visitors to walk, creating 30 metres of glades, placing bird and bat boxes, and planting woodland wildflower like bluebells and hedge woundwort.