I moved in November and the house we're at now has about 20ft of garden behind the current fencing that is ours. It does slope down after about 10ft, but we wanted to reclaim it all and then fence it off at a safe point. It backs onto Warrens Hall Reserve in Netherton.
Spent the weekend cutting trees, hacking brambles and digging up tree stumps. It was so overgrown and so much stuff had been dumped over the fence. Made a clear path now to the bottom of the slope so all the branches and stuff are being chucked over the back as it will all comp down over time and the brambles will be burned in our makeshift barrel fire pit. Once it's all clear the plan is to make the slope safe and fence it off as we don't want the slope to make it's way further down the garden. Hopefully some deep concrete posts and stuff will support the soil so it doesn't fall away.
Busy bee. Tiring work.