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Students from the cartography department of Oxford Brookes University spent four days at Centenary Park starting on Easter Monday. They were surveying the land as part of a project which will result in maps being available to assist in the future layout of the land which was once the Hillberry Tip.

Since 1994, the Centenary Year of the Commissioners, work has taken place to slowly reclaim the area but it has been on a shoestring budget with the soil/spoil being brought to the site by developers free of charge and the various tree planting being undertaken under the auspices of the Small Woods scheme run by DAFF.

It will be some years before the park is open to the public but the mapping project should help to progress matters a little more quickly.

The photograph shows Commissioners' Chairman Terry Black presenting copies of "The Onchan Story" to the students during a visit to the site with project manager Peter Kelly (second from right). The students left the island on Friday 25th April and now have an eight week period to produce their project for the University tutors and the commissioners

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