The Green Corridor

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The Green Corridor Working together to turn Duesbery St-Stepney cycle path into a natural haven, eco-venue and urban sanctuary for cyclists, walkers and wildlife enthusiasts.

Proud supporters of Butterfly City. Join us! Early in 2020, a group of community organisations got together to discuss how we could make the footpath and cycleway a safer, better place for everyone using it and everything living there. More than that, we wanted to make it a valued space where the community can meet, an educational space where children can learn and play, and also to encourage those who do not currently use it to feel safer to walk, talk and enjoy the history and natural history all around them. The idea of a Green Corridor came about to honour the history of the path as part of the old Hull to Hessle railway line, as well as part of the national network of cycleways that is developing. We were also aware of the wildlife already using the area as a corridor - foxes, birds and bats all use the cycleway as a place to move through between areas they utilise - and wanted to enhance the habitat to make it more accessible to more species of wildlife. A Space for Everyone was born. The current project is funded by the Safer Hull Community Crime Reduction Fund, working with Avenues Action, Princes Avenue Community and Traders and Berkeley Street Neighbourhood Watch. We are also supporting the Hull Butterfly City initiative and have already planted alder buckthorn bushes to encourage more Brimstone butterflies. We are organising more events, offering volunteering opportunities and involving more local community groups as the project develops. Watch this space....

27/07/2026
Painted Lady butterflies have bred in the Green Corridor! Leaving areas to grow wild resulted in a large patch of thist...
27/07/2026

Painted Lady butterflies have bred in the Green Corridor! Leaving areas to grow wild resulted in a large patch of thistles in front of the mural. These butterflies lay their eggs on thistles, where the caterpillars spin a web around a leaf and feed inside, protected from hungry predators. Once large enough, the caterpillars pupate in the nearby vegetation to emerge in a few weeks as adult butterflies. These butterflies may breed here again or continue to fly north and produce one more generation which will then fly south to their homeland in North Africa - a remarkable journey, reproduced each year in varying numbers.

If you wonder why we let things grow, then here is why....Cinnabar moth caterpillars on ragwort.
28/06/2026

If you wonder why we let things grow, then here is why....
Cinnabar moth caterpillars on ragwort.

Lots of Orange-tip on the cycleway today 😃
04/05/2026

Lots of Orange-tip on the cycleway today 😃

Along the Green Corridor, our wild flower planting is slowly working....
03/05/2026

Along the Green Corridor, our wild flower planting is slowly working....

23/04/2026

Swarming honey bees in the Corridor today...

19/04/2026

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Fist Holly Blue in the Corridor, with plenty of wildflowers for nectar.
06/04/2026

Fist Holly Blue in the Corridor, with plenty of wildflowers for nectar.

A sunny, warm day at last. Two Brimstone and 3 Peacock along the Corridor....
18/03/2026

A sunny, warm day at last. Two Brimstone and 3 Peacock along the Corridor....

Spring is here! Peacock butterflies have been flying (we leave plenty of nettles for their caterpillars to eat) in the G...
04/03/2026

Spring is here! Peacock butterflies have been flying (we leave plenty of nettles for their caterpillars to eat) in the Green Corridor. All the birds too are in breeding plumage and singing their joy for life from the trees. What a difference some sunshine makes!

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Duesbery Street
Kingston Upon Hull
HU5

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+447968088482

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