This page is for the natural history of Colburn parish – back to the end of the last Ice Age! Colburn is an interesting semi rural, semi urban place, with farms in the north and south right next to the modern housing and development along Catterick road. We want to record the flora and fauna (plants and animals) found here; which are the oldest hedges, ancient woodland, the river Swale and the two becks (from which the place is named) and the much more recent lakes on the Batts. It would be good to produce a 21st century Domesday Book of the parish not just recording the natural world as it is now and as it used to be, but also the natural features the inhabitants of Colburn value most about the place, be it a tree, a wood, a ford, a hedge, a view or whatever.