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.

Walkers are frames that allow horses to exercise by themselves in a circle. For horse owners, they reduce the amount of supervision required, and like a lot of equestrian equipment the idea can be adapted to BDSM. Horses spend their whole lives in some form of bondage or captivity if you think about it You do see horse walkers appear in pony play contexts now and then: there was one at the old Deferre woodland in Devon, and a couple of Insex scenes had them made out of some of PD's scaffolding. So it's something I'd had at the back of my mind for a while when at the end of last year @mia had [more...]

I came across this striking series of pony girl photos by Razoomovsky tonight. Rather than just go for the glossy latex look or take raw pictures of actual pony play, he's used the post processing to create narrative images of world with working pony girls.

I've now put online a first version of my pony play history page. This deals with some of the myths (like Aristotle - that one is just a medieval story) and then the 20th Century transition from 1930s pony play fiction through to the real-life pony play scene that has now emerged.

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.

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Bridgewood weather (or BBC 5 days or TWC 10 days or Accu 15 days)
Sunday: sunny intervals Max Temp: 7°C (45°F) Min Temp: 2°C (36°F) Sunrise: 07:46GMT Sunset: 17:03GMT	Monday: grey cloud Max Temp: 7°C (45°F) Min Temp: 0°C (32°F) Sunrise: 07:44GMT Sunset: 17:04GMT	Tuesday: white cloud Max Temp: 5°C (41°F) Min Temp: -7°C (19°F) Sunrise: 07:42GMT Sunset: 17:06GMT