Winifred Heath (24 December 1892 – 22 August 1988) was a nurse and naturalist.
Biography
Heath was born in the Lickey Hills, Worcestershire. She became a student nurse in London before travelling to India as a missionary nurse. After returning to the UK she worked as a district nurse in Chesterton, Cambridge before moving to Nettleham.
Heath was a long-standing member of the Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union. She was an honorary life-member of the LNU and at the time of her death was its oldest member. She spent much of her retirement fundraising for the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust and in her honour a nature reserve, formerly Bratoft Meadows, was renamed Heath's Meadows. Heath's Meadows are a grassland meadow site near Burgh le Marsh covering 5.5 hectares (14 acres). She was a volunteer for the RSPCA, the Donkey Sanctuary and the Lincolnshire branch of the Council for the Protection of Rural England.
References
- ^ "Notable Lincolnshire women - Winifred Heath". Lincolnshire Life. August 2015. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
- ^ "Obituaries". Transactions of the Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union. 22 (2): 124. 1989.
- "Heath's Meadows - The Nurse Winifred Heath Memorial Reserve" (PDF). Lincolnshire Wildlife trust. Retrieved 30 December 2022.