{"id":23553,"date":"2019-02-12T08:14:28","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T13:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=23553"},"modified":"2019-02-12T08:14:31","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T13:14:31","slug":"county-adds-80-acres-to-nottingham-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=23553","title":{"rendered":"County adds 80 acres to Nottingham Park"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chester County\u2019s Nottingham County Park has increased in size with the acquisition of 80 acres of preserved land donated by The Nature Conservancy.<\/p><\/div>\n

WEST CHESTER \u2014 The Chester County Commissioners announced Monday the acquisition of 80 acres of preserved land which are attached to Nottingham County Park, and will extend the size of the park by more than 10 percent. \u00a0The additional acres were conveyed at no cost to Chester County by The Nature Conservancy (TNC) which has owned the land for 20 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cNottingham Park was the first ever Chester County Park and it now welcomes around 155,000 visitors a year who use the park\u2019s fitness trail, pavilions and playgrounds,\u201d said Chester County Commissioners\u2019 Chair Michelle Kichline.\u00a0 \u201cThe park is also recognized as a National Natural Landmark because it contains one of the largest serpentine barrens on the east coast.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Nature Conservancy purchased the 80- acre tract of land in 1998 for $275,000, using conservancy, state and county funding for the original purchase.\u00a0 In reviewing its property portfolio, the Conservancy determined that transferring TNC land to the County would allow for integrated and improved management across the conservation area and ensure excellent management.<\/p>\n

\u201cChester County\u2019s focus on land preservation as part of its comprehensive plan has been in place for 30 years now, and is an appreciated asset by our citizens,\u201d said Chester County Commissioner Kathi Cozzone.\u00a0 \u201cOne of our specific Strategic Plan goals is the addition of three percent growth to our parks system across the county, and this acquisition will certainly help us to reach that goal.\u201d<\/p>\n

The addition of the 80 acres brings Nottingham County Park\u2019s total size to 731 acres.\u00a0 The park sits atop an outcropping of serpentine stone greater than one square mile in size and was once a site for mining.\u00a0 Serpentine, a geological outcrop of rare, light-green rock found only in three small geographic areas in all of North America, has soil so low in essential nutrients and so high in some metals that most ordinary plants will not grow. The barrens have their own community of plants, some of them globally-rare, with practically no species in common with the surrounding forests and fields.<\/p>\n

\u201cChester County has many rich resources,\u201d said County Commissioner Terence Farrell. \u201cThe acquisition of the additional acreage will help protect the serpentine barrens and will initially continue to be used as publicly accessible open space with continued agricultural use.<\/p>\n

\u201cFuture plans for the additional acres include an extension of Nottingham Park\u2019s Buck Trail, and the county Facilities & Parks Department will begin implementing management and stewardship practices to control invasive species,\u201d added Commissioner Farrell.<\/p>\n

Dedicated in September 1963, Nottingham Park, is located at 150 Park Road, in Nottingham.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WEST CHESTER \u2014 The Chester County Commissioners announced Monday the acquisition of 80 acres of preserved land which are attached to Nottingham County Park, and will extend the size of the park by more than 10 percent. \u00a0The additional acres were conveyed at no cost to Chester County by The Nature Conservancy (TNC) which has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[20,6876,1035],"class_list":["post-23553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chester-county","tag-nottingham-park","tag-open-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23554,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23553\/revisions\/23554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}