Bridgewood

Bridgewood is a 20 acre woodland in North Shropshire between Manchester and Birmingham owned by Tanos. The FAQ list answers the most common questions about the wood.

In more detail, the description page talks about the various locations within the wood, and the equipment already installed there. Since 2009, I've been organising small-scale event days, and the wood is ideal for open-air BDSM, pony play, hard labour and many other uses. The Byelaws set out a shared D/s structure and some sensible groundrules. Along with the BDSM objectives are parallel sets of forestry and wildlife aims.

I'm also collecting Open Air BDSM links, which all include some aspects of land devoted to BDSM, such as the DV8 woodland venue in Kent and the former De Ferre pony farm in Devon.

Bridgewood Blog

The blog records the evolution of the wood and also includes other Open Air BDSM topics.

I made a few changes to the Bridgewood Blog last night, to include older posts about Open Air BDSM as well as Bridgewood itself and to put more of the posts on the main page of the site. I'm planning to continue with more OAB posts as well as the Bridgewood updates to make it more of an open air news site. You can also follow the blog via ukBridgewood on Twitter.

In this end of year podcast, mia and I talk about some new BDSM events of 2011, and Open Air BDSM including Bridgewood and The Warehouse. [more...]

I've updated the Open Air BDSM events list with the Bridgewood dates for 2012. Next year we're going to be on the third Saturday of the month. This is usually the day before the BBB in Birmingham.

Thank you so much, every one who came and made The Warehouse such a great event! We had 60 people through the door plus about half a dozen more who were helping to run the event and also participated. I counted 12 pony carts, and so this was one of the biggest pony play events ever in the UK. [more...]

First cart rebuilt. Second cart built. Handouts printed. Signs made. Gear packed. Box of stuff filled. Suitcase packed. Memos sent. Lots of people coming tomorrow!

With the Open Air season coming to a close, I've been doing some forestry work at Bridgewood. The first thing has been to start opening up the south ride (trackway) more. This route has been marked out since 2008 and I've been mowing it during the summer for the last couple of years. However it's still a lot narrower in places than the Middle and North Rides: some ducking under branches and stepping through gaps between bushes is necessary. [more...]

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Bridgewood weather (or BBC 5 days or TWC 10 days or Accu 15 days)
Saturday: sunny Max Temp: 5°C (41°F) Min Temp: -2°C (28°F) Sunrise: 07:59GMT Sunset: 16:47GMT	Sunday: white cloud Max Temp: 6°C (43°F) Min Temp: -1°C (30°F) Sunrise: 07:57GMT Sunset: 16:49GMT	Monday: light snow Max Temp: 4°C (39°F) Min Temp: -1°C (30°F) Sunrise: 07:56GMT Sunset: 16:51GMT