{"id":591116,"date":"2026-05-18T19:29:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T19:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/591116\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T19:29:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T19:29:18","slug":"round-howe-wood-gets-picnic-tables-and-animal-sculptures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/591116\/","title":{"rendered":"Round Howe Wood gets picnic tables and animal sculptures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Picnic tables and wooden animal sculptures have been installed in a woodland in North Yorkshire. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The project at Round Howe Wood, by the River Swale, was led by Richmond Rotary Club to improve the area for visitors. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It included two oak picnic tables, wooden toadstools and sculptures of otters, badgers, an owl and a mole by chainsaw artist Sam Bowsher.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Funding was provided through a \u00a310,000 National Highways Community Legacy Fund grant, while work on the A66 Northern Trans-Pennine project takes place in the surrounding areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Picnic tables and wooden animal sculptures have been installed in a woodland in North Yorkshire. The project at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-591116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}