INSTALLATION OF BIRD BOXES IN DECEMBER 2025 Volunteers installed 17 more bird boxes across the park to help encourage our growing bird population. On a crisp December morning the team mobilised in preparation for the coming Spring. LIVING/DEAD HEDGE CREATION Hawthorn, Blackthorn, Rowan and Spindle hedge creation in progress between Green Field and Tincombe Nature… Read more: Go Wild at Tincombe Park

Friday 10 April 1.30 – 3.30pm CHILDRENS EASTER EGG & BUG HUNT Saturday 9 May 8pm BAT WALK & PRESENTATION Saturday 13 June 1 – 3pm WILDWATCH with the Tincombe Park Team Tuesday 7 July All day BRUNEL SCHOOL educational field trips with the Tincombe Park Team Saturday 18 July 11am – 1pm CORNWALL BUTTERFLY… Read more: Events at Tincombe

This year the Tincombe Tea Party is on 31st August, 1pm till 5pm. We’ve lined-up some great entertainment, some super stalls selling handmade, preloved or homemade items and we have some fantastic cakes too. Many Thanks to Saltash Town Council who have for the 4th year running match funded this great Saltash event. Bring a… Read more: Tincombe Tea Party 2024

Cornwall Council’s pioneering Urban Green Shoots initiative is set to revolutionise public open spaces across the region, thanks to funding from the UK Government’s Shared Prosperity Fund (SPF). With a focus on increasing biodiversity, fostering community engagement, and promoting well-being, the project is a beacon of hope in the post-pandemic era, contributing to the levelling-up… Read more: Tincombe Park Transformation 2024

The Tincombe Tea Party in its 3rd year was another major success due to grant funding from Saltash Town Council. Local craft stalls lined the edge of Tincombe Green, while the Friends of Tincombe server tea and cakes. The Sunset Wing Band made their 3rd appearance at the Tea Party and as always were the… Read more: Tincombe Tea Party 2023

This new bench which can be found at Bramble Walk was designed and built by the Friends of Tincombe. Lots of donations and a lots of skills went into this. The bench was made open to the public on 17th August 2023.

The Tincombe Tea Party is back for a third year. Thanks once again to Saltash Town Council for grant funding the event. This year we have the Sunset Swing Band back to impress us with their musical amusement! We also have a Ukulele group playing and Peter Mancini who will sing some retro songs! Please… Read more: Tincombe Tea Party – 26th August 2023

Tincombe has its very first picnic bench– Thank you Tamar Landscapes Ltd  This magnificent addition to Tincombe Green has been made and most generously donated to Tincombe Park by Tamar Landscapes Ltd. Installed on Friday 24th March 2023. NOT ONLY DID TAMAR LANDSCAPES BUILD AND DONATE OUR FIRST PICNIC BENCH BUT THEY ALSO CAME OUT AND INSTALLED IT FOR US! I can only… Read more: Tamar Landsdcaping Ltd Donate Picnic Bench To Tincombe

Tincombe Park Now has a Hibernaculum. Hibernaculum is Latin for ‘tent for winter quarters’ In this case we are aiming at creating an amphibian hibernation habitat. DUG BELOW THE GROUND TO TRY AND GET BELOW THE FROST AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. THEN WE BUILT UP WITH PALLETS (JUST LIKE AN UNDERGROUND BUG HOTEL) AND STUFFED THEM… Read more: Tincombe’s Hibernaculum

The Friends of Tincombe Were invited to promote ourselves at Saltash CO-OP on Saturday 20th August 22. THIS ALLOWED US TO TALK TO SCORES OF PEOPLE WE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO REACH LETTING THEM KNOW WHAT WE ARE UP TO. We presented our work and vision to many interested shoppers – all of… Read more: Saltash CO-OP Meet the Public

This was the Friends of Tincombe’s second year hosting the Tincombe Tea Party at Tincombe Green, Saltash. This year the Tea Party took place on the 6th August. The Friends of Tincombe would like to send a big thank you to Cornwall Council and Saltash Town Council for funding the Tincombe Tea Party. The Tea Party had all the best local craft stalls that… Read more: Tincombe Tea Party – August 6th 2022

The Tincombe Bug Hotel was created by the Friends of Tincombe on 20th May 2022. This bug hotel was brought to you by: Bob Jones, Chris Haverson, Liz Lloyd & Daniel, Dan Jenkins (for building the chimney) Thanks to Cathy Parsons, Debbie, Jay Williams & CO, South West Surfacing for supplying the pallets and thank you to Cathy Parsons for… Read more: Tincombe Bug Hotel

6th March 2022 Tincombe Park has never been so clean!. What a great turnout we had. A massive thanks to all our litter pickers this morning who came from around Saltash. Thank you to Toni Grenville Slade, Bob Jones, Chris Haverson, Kimberley Dawn, Shojiro Frank, Gill Morris & Layla. Thanks to Jay Williams and the 3 little pickers, Adrian White, Jayden England and Audrey.Thank you to Jenene Williams for supplying the cake  and Kimberley for the coffee… Read more: Tincombe Spring Clean 2022

Due to the great success of the first Tincombe Tea Party held in August 2021 we are glad to announce the Tincombe Tea Party is back and is scheduled to be held on 6th August 2022 at 2pm till 6pm. As last year the Sunset Swing Band will be playing and there will be tea… Read more: Tincombe Tea Party 2022

The Friends of Tincombe were overjoyed when the Saltash Scrapstore decided to donate Tincombe Park a modern recycled bench. On 6th February 2022 Peter Ryland and the Saltash Scrapstore committee officially opened this bench which has a view over Trematon Fort and St. Stephens Church. A massive team effort has gone into creating this restful… Read more: Saltash Scrapstore Bench Donation

14 apple trees and 2 cherry were planted on 15th January 2022 toward the Queen’s Jubilee Green Canopy. CORMAC and the Environment Agency have funded these fruit trees and the special thing about them is that they are all from the Tamar Valley. Some have some very interesting names such as pigs snout and lady’s fingers. The complete list will be available soon and each tree will… Read more: Queen’s Jubilee Green Canopy

In December 2021 we planted dozens of Woodland Trees which were donated to the Friends of Tincombe by the Woodland Trust. We have planted 5 Rowan trees along Bramble Walk, 15 Silver Birch at The Drains below Slate Island, a few Rowan and Wild Cherry at the top of Greenfield and some more Rowan at Oaklands Field.

Our second hand made sleeper bench was installed by volunteers on 16th October 2021. This bench sits between the two main parts of the Orchard and has a view of Greenfield down to Maybrook Bridge.

The 18th September 2021 was an historic day for Tincombe. The community gathered to install our very own bench! Thank you to David Weldon for making the very first bench for Tincombe and helping with the installation. It looks amazing! THANKS TO CHRIS HAVERSON FOR DIGGING THE HOLES AND TO JAY WILLIAMS FOR EMPTYING THE HOLES  Thanks also to Adrian White… Read more: Our first sleeper bench

To keep up with the news on Tincombe Tea Party 2022 Follow our page. The very first Tincombe Tea Party took place on 22nd August 2021 organised by the Friends of Tincombe. What a great event had by all. We had Thomas Tingcombe ( Blast from the Past ) attend our Tea Party, the Sunset… Read more: Tincombe Tea Party 2021

Deadline : Friday 9th July 2021 FRIENDS OF TINCOMBE NEED YOUR HELP AND CREATIVITY. WE WOULD LIKE A LOGO CREATED AND WE ARE ASKING THE PEOPLE OF SALTASH COMMUNITY TO DESIGN IT FOR US . The Great Spotted Woodpecker is well known for its sound and presence at Tincombe and so would like the Great… Read more: Friends of Tincombe – Logo Competition

Thank you to the COOP who have donated £200 toward a new bench here at Tincombe. Adam from the Saltash COOP came to Tincombe on the morning of 30th April 2021 to present the cheque. The donation was very gladly accepted by Karen Roberts on behalf of the Friends of Tincombe. The COOP have also… Read more: COOP Donation For Bench

A Massive Thank You to the small team that planted the Willow Dome here at Tincombe on 25th April 2021 and to everyone one who has helped make this happen. So many people have made this happen. Firstly Shojiro Frank for donating all the Willows from his own garden and to his daughter for all… Read more: Willow Dome Planting

The Friends of Tincombe very first event with Cornwall Wildlife Trust took place on the 17th April 2021. Our very determined volunteers took on the massive task of clearing the pond weed! It was purposefully a small volunteering event in which the Friends of Tincombe helped Stuart from CWT to remove invasive (and illegal to… Read more: Clearing the Nature Reserve Pond

What a glorious weekend to be out with a fantastic group of volunteers from the Friends of Tincombe planting wild flowers! Despite the current limitations, a great time was had by everyone. Just as importantly the flora of Tincombe Green and Oaklands Field has been extended to give wildlife a better chance. As is in… Read more: Easter 21 Wildflower Planting

Thanks to Cornwall County Councillor Hilary Frank, the friends of Tincombe have been donated he sum of £214.80 toward Tincombe Parks very first rustic bench. Hilary has been impressed with the way the Friends of Tincombe have rallied round to help make Tincombe a better place for wildlife and for people. The friends cannot thank… Read more: Donation from Cornwall Council

THOMAS TINGCOMBE. Sometime back in the late 17th century Samuel Skelton sold Boraton (Burraton) Estate in Saltash to John Tingcombe.The son of John Tingcombe was Thomas Tingcombe. Thomas was a Yeoman, lived at St.Stephens by Saltash and died in 1747.In his will, Thomas Tingcombe left Boraton estate to his wife Joan. Thomas also left Wharaton (Warraton) Estate in Saltash to his wife Joan… Read more: Thomas Tingcombe

The Friends of Tincombe undertook a project to enhance the wildlife of Tincombe as well as to help educate children about the nature that surrounds us. Local families and individuals built bird boxes, bat boxes and hedgehog homes to be placed around the park. Other members donated the wood, roofing-felt and another made squirrel protectors… Read more: Wildlife Home Project

Our very first competition was for members to post inspiring photographs of Tincombe and for other members to vote on them. The winner was awarded the very first ‘Friends of Tincombe Mug’. Liz Shaw was our winner. Other photos that were also very popular from various members.

In 2010 Tincombe became the first place to host a community orchard for the Saltash Apple Project (SAP) organised by Saltash Environmental Action (AKA  Saltash in Transition) for the ‘Making Saltash Greener’ Transition Festival. Historically, much of Tincombe was an Orchard and so this project helped restore some of Tincombe back to it’s origins. There… Read more: Saltash Apple Project

The Saltash Voters List from the 1850’s states that Henry Batten from Burraton Coombe was an occupier of land including “Part of Tingombe’s farm, Daw’s ground, and Rundle’s, near the Village of Burraton Coombe”. As in the screenshot below. Often spellings cannot be trusted with names from the past and the only similar name locally I… Read more: Tinkham Farm

The document below is for a farm tenancy tender from 1912. It seems to correlate to Church Town Farm in Saltash. If you any information on the history of Tincombe itself, please contact us. Bewes AND TINCOMBES TENEMENTS, otherwise HOBBS and CROSS FARM, St. Stephens-by-Saltash, Cornwall__To be LET by TENDER for 132 years from June… Read more: Bewes and Tincombes Tenements

INCOMPLETE – Please report what you find! thanks. Hexagonia hydnoides Hexagonia hydnoides is so common it does not have a common name. It is a bracket fungus and loves to grow on damp dying trees. King Alfred’s Cake Daldinia concentrica This fungi grows predominantly on dead Ash, Beech and Sycamore. Mature specimens are useful as tinder for… Read more: Fungi at Tincombe

In 2019 the first trees were planted which contributed to a new initiative by Cornwall County Council to increase the tree cover in Cornwall by 2%. The ‘Forest for Cornwall‘ aims to add 8000 hectares of new trees across Cornwall by 2030. Tincombe Park was chosen as the first location and over 100 trees were… Read more: Forest for Cornwall

Incomplete! so please contact us with your list. Thanks. White Clover Dandelion Timothy Grass Ribwort Plantain Common Knapweed Spear Thistle Creeping Thistle Scarlet Pimpernel Smooth Sow Thistle Perennial Sow Thistle Lesser Hawksbit Creeping Buttercup Bindweed Prickly Sow Thistle Meadowsweet Corn Marigold Field Poppy Corncockle Borage Smooth Sow Thistle Catmint Corn Camomile Corn Flower Comfrey Dyers… Read more: Flowers at Tincombe

The Friends very first management event took place today (11/12/20) and was a fantastic success. We had an absolutely brilliant first get together today planting daffodil bulbs. We have put a few dozen around a couple of trees at Tincombe Green, at the Community Orchard and at Oaklands Field. It was a great turnout which… Read more: Daffodil Planting

In 1921 Dr Grenfell built a golf course on farm fields in the west of Saltash which included part of Tincombe, including Tincombe Green and what is now, Tincombe Nature Reserve. The marsh at that time was drained to create obstacles and bunkers. You can see the golf course in the 1938 map. The golf… Read more: Saltash Golf Course

If you spot a dragonfly at Tincombe not listed on this page then please contact us to have this page updated. Emperor Dragonfly Flying season: late May – early September Common Darter  Typically on the wing from July to October, but can appear as early as May and still be around in December if its mild… Read more: Dragonflies at Tincombe

The old quarry at Tincombe which was quarried for Blue Elvan stone, turns out to be an area of historical and archaeological interest. According to Cornwall Council the area is post medieval. It seems that in 1888 the Quarry at Tincombe was probably being used as shown on the map. Notice the pond that was… Read more: Tincombe Quarry

Amphibians are regularly seen at the Tincombe Nature Reserve and include Toads, Frogs and Newts. Amphibians don’t hibernate as such, they lie dormant, and may take advantage of milder patches of weather to come out and forage. Frog Frog spawn appears from January onwards. By March you should be able to spot tadpoles in the nature reserve. Frogs lie dormant during… Read more: Amphibians at Tincombe

If you see a butterfly not on this list, please let us know by using the contact page.  Brimstone This single-brooded butterfly can be found in most months of the year, although peak flight times are in April and May as the hibernating adults emerge, and again in August when their offspring reach adulthood. Comma This butterfly can… Read more: Butterflies at Tincombe

Tincombe valley is part of the Forest for Cornwall project which aims to plant 8000 Hectares of trees across Cornwall by 2030. Tincombe was chosen as the first area to start planting and in 2019 105 trees were added to the valley. Tincombe now also has a community orchard. The Saltash Town Council tree Warden… Read more: Trees at Tincombe

This list of birds that have been seen within the Tincombe area. The list is non-exhaustive but will give a good idea on what to expect. All Year Birds Blackbird Blackcap Black-headed Gull Blue Tit Bullfinch Buzzard Chaffinch Coal Tit Collared Dove Carrion Crow Dunnock Goldcrest Goldfinch Great Spotted Woodpecker Great Tit Greenfinch Green Woodpecker… Read more: Birds at Tincombe