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Saplings from the felled Sycamore Gap tree are to be planted across the UK, including at a pit disaster site, a town still healing from the Troubles and a place which became an international symbol of peace, protest and feminism.

The National Trust said planting of 49 saplings, known as “trees of hope”, would begin on Saturday. It is hoped that the sycamore will live on in a positive, inspirational way.

The Sycamore Gap tree, on Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland, was one of the UK’s best-known and most loved trees. When it was criminally cut down for no apparent reason on a stormy night in September 2023 there was widespread anger.

Hilary McGrady, director general of the National Trust, said it was “the quick thinking of our conservationists in the aftermath of the felling that has allowed the Sycamore Gap to live on”.

Seeds from the tree were collected and have become 49 saplings, one to represent each foot in height of the tree, which was probably planted in the late 19th century.

Nearly 500 applications were received for one of the saplings, which are now between four and six feet tall.

The Trust said the first five saplings would be planted on Saturday, followed by many more in the days after, during National Tree Week. All will be in publicly accessible spaces.

One of the saplings will be planted next to a military control tower at Greenham Common in Berkshire.

As a base for US cruise missiles, in the 1980s the common became the site of women’s peace camps, which had a dramatic effect on public awareness of the dangers of storing the weapons there. At its height, more than 70,000 women were there and it became the biggest female-led protest since women’s suffrage.

Today the tower is used as a community centre and museum. Helen Beard, of the Greener Greenham Common Group, called the sapling “a powerful way to spread a message hope – for nature, our environment and for peace”.

“It will be seen by the many visitors using the control tower and we think they will be quite moved by it,” Beard said.

Another sapling is being planted on Saturday in Strabane in County Tyrone. On the border to the Republic of Ireland, Strabane suffered heavily during the Troubles but is today a place with a vibrant arts and music scene where much has been done to foster a sense of resilience and hope.

The tree is being planted as a symbol of the town’s “collective journey towards healing” and a tribute to John Gallagher, a beloved member of the Strabane community who died last year from motor neurone disease.

Three other plantings will take place on Saturday: at a site commemorating the Minnie Pit mining disaster in Staffordshire, at the Tree Sanctuary in Coventry where three teenage friends helped set up a project to rescue their city’s trees, and at Coton Orchard in Cambridgeshire for a grassroots project called Coton Loves Pollinators.

The Coton tree will be planted by Sir Partha Dasgupta, a professor of economics at the University of Cambridge, who is considered one of the world’s leading thinkers on nature’s value to people and place.

Later in the week, saplings will be planted at places including the Rob Burrow centre for motor neurone disease at Seacroft hospital in Leeds, at Hexham general hospital in Northumberland, and at a veterans’ charity, Veterans in Crisis, in Sunderland.

Andrew Poad, general manager for the National Trust’s Hadrian’s Wall properties, said: “It’s incredible to think that this weekend, the first ‘offspring’ of this very famous tree will be planted.

“Over the next couple of years, the saplings will really start to take shape, and because sycamores are so hardy, we’re confident they’ll be able to withstand a range of conditions.”

Mark Brown The Guardian 22/11/25

The National Trust News

The Hereford Times

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If you want to plant a light woodland perhaps underplanted with wild primroses and bluebells or are looking for a luminous specimen tree for the garden, consider a birch, advises Charles Quest-Ritson

Most of us can recognise a birch tree when we see one. The dainty leaves, catkins, drooping twigs and rugged white bark are distinctive enough, especially the colour of the bark. Betula Pendula is our native species and one of the most widely dispersed of all trees. It’s geographical range extends all through Europe – in Mediterranean countries only in the cooler mountain areas – but in Morroco and then right across central Asia and Siberia to Alaska and Canada. Yet B. Pendula is only one of more than a hundred species of birches, some of which have limited natural distribution.

Our silver birch is a pioneer species, rapidly colonising bare earth, for example after a fire. Conservationists know that birch seedlings are a threat to heathland if not properly grazed. Many of our birch woods date back to myxomatosis, when there were not enough rabbits to nibble the seedlings, but birches cannot compete against stronger species for access to light, so they tend to be short-lived denizens of woodland edges.

In 2018 the British champion birch at Ambleside in Cumbria was found to be 30.3m high, a few inches short of 100ft. In mixed woodland, alongside massive English oaks, 30ft-40ft is the more usual height for birches.

However, in colder places, such as the countryside around Moscow, it is the birches that have all the height and vigour, growing to 100ft, whereas the oaks remain as stunted in-fillers, seldom reaching 20ft high.

The silver birch is the national tree of Russia, where they say it represents the grace, tenderness and natural beauty of Russian women.

‘Most beautiful of forest trees, the Lady of the woods’ was Coleridge’s description of our native silver birch.

Several cultivars of B. Pendula are popular garden plants. ‘Tristis’ has a stout trunk, but weeping branchlets; ‘Dalecarlica’ also has weeping branches but with deeply cut leaves; ‘Youngii‘ has dense, twiggy, weeping growth with no central leader; ‘Fastigiata’ makes a slender upright column, good for small spaces and ‘Purpurea’ is extremely useful in colour designed gardens for its dark purple leaves.

Almost all birches are easy to grow in English conditions. They may have a preference for certain situations – the river birch, Betula Nigra, from New England, US, is said to prefer sites where its roots can run deep into water,but,in practice, they seem to flourish anywhere. B. Pendula as equally as happy in the poor, dry sandy soils and brackish lakes of Surrey’s commuter as in the stony uplands of central Scotland.

How are birches best used in a garden? They make very good light woodland, creating a mini habitat where many other plants can flourish alongside them. The wild species are best, especially B. Pendula. Almost everything will grow happily in a woodland of silver birch – camellias, azaleas, rhododendrons and hydrangeas flourish. Many bulbs and low herbaceous plants do too – wild primroses, bluebells, wood anemones and lily-of-the-valley.

Selected cultivars are more difficult to place, especially those with super white trunks that call out for admiration and are not good for sharing their beauty with other trees. Plant them as statements, in avenues, or individually, as focal points. Perfect trees of any sort are rare in the natural world and woodland gardens should not be unnaturally bright.

Their colourful trunks offer year round beauty, but early autumn brings another dimension when birch leaves turn yellow or brown. No species takes on the shades of orange and red that so many other trees and shrubs do and, in hot, dry summer birches start to colour up and drop their leaves in August – but the autumn colour of birches is nevertheless one of their qualities. Betula Utilise is one of the last to drop its leaves.

Taxonomists have enormous fun sorting out the genus. Their job is complicated by the fact that all birches depend on the wind to disperse their pollen and their seeds, which means that when two species meet in the wild they give rise to large numbers of natural hybrids. However, DNA testing is beginning to confirm the existence of micro species of great rarity.

Gardeners tend to distinguish the species and forms by the colour of their bark. Caféau-lait Betula Platyphylla from Alaska, but pink or buff for Betula Ermanii {the cultivar known as ‘Grayswood Hill‘ is especially fine}, whereas Betula Albo-Sinensis starts out as rich toffee-brown then fades to fawn. It is worth noting that almost all birches have bark with long horizontal stripes known as lenticels in it and larger trees often have dark, rugged patches that burst through the colourful bark. Look at the black scars on the trunk of a silver birch and ask yourself whether they improve or detract from its beauty.

The garden value of birches has led to the commercialisation of an ever growing range of cultivars, selected for their bark. Good cultivars are usually grafted on rootstock of B. Pendula, but most species can be propagated from cuttings with surprising ease.

To consider all the possibilities, you really need to visit a good arboretum. Plant Heritage lists several with National Collection status. all in well-established gardens with much more than birches to admire. An interesting modern one is the late Kenneth Ashburner’s fine collection of wild-sourced birches at Stone Lane Gardens near Chagford in Devon, which is now an RHS Partner Garden. The most comprehensive, however, is at Wakehurst Place in West Sussex, best known as the country cousin of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, which has nearly 350 hybrids, cultivars and species, more than half of them grown from wild-collected seed. These include several that, although considered very rare or endangered in the wild, are actually available from several nurseries in Britain and sometimes grown from wild seed. Buy the tongue-twisting Betula kweichowensis from China and B Chichibuensis from Japan to make your own contribution to conservation Botanically minded collectors love the very rare B. Megrelica, a multi-stem shrub from the Caucasus, because its ploidy is inexplicably duodecaploid (12n = 168). Yes, the botany of birches is complicated.

Wakehurst’s National Collection is probably the largest in the world. The species are planted in groups in sparse mature oak woodland and visitors will notice that there is much variation among seedlings of the same species-scope for further selection. Some, including Betula Populifolia from eastern North America are naturallv multitrunked. whereas others exhibit much stouter growth than our own B. Pendula. The yellow birch, variously known as B. Alleghaniensis and B. Lutea, native to much of eastern Canada and south to the Appalachians, is one that makes a broad, strong tree with stout low branches. Use the RHS Plant Finder to check the ones that interest you and then go to a good nursery to make your choices.

Finally, a postscript. In spring, large quantities of sap rise up the trunks of deciduous trees. Birch sap contains abou 1% sugars and can be tapped in a similar way as sap from Canadian sugar-maples. Drink it fresh. boil it to concentrate it or ferment it. as the Russians do. It is said that birch beer contributes to the natural beauty of their womenfolk.

Reference Country Life UK 5th November 2025

Now in residency at Lichfield Cathedral. A spectacular 13 metre long ‘Table for the Nation’ was created from a section of the nation’s most significant tree, a gigantic 5000 year old Fenland Black Oak.

Y O U R   T A B L E   A W A I T S

You can experience ‘A Table for the Nation’ at Lichfield Cathedral, where it is in residency until May 2026. The table is accompanied by an insightful exhibition which details the history of the project, Black Oak and our ancient high forests.

Many of the craftspeople who made the table feel an affinity with the work ethic of the people who built Lichfield Cathedral. We believe this results in a similar aesthetic as both the Cathedral and the table, in their own ways, evoke a sense of wonder.

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The story begins 5000 years ago when an incredible ancient high forest of massive oak trees once stood deep within the Fenland Basin of East Anglia. Over time, and with a rise in sea levels, these spectacularly tall trees fell into the silt of the flooded forest floor. There they lay, unseen and undisturbed, preserved in the peat for five millennia. Until now…

During routine cultivations in the spring of 2012 on a farm in the Wissington Fens of south-west Norfolk, a 13.2 metre section of one of the greatest of these buried giants was unearthed.

This magnificent tree represented the greatest creative opportunity to give a unique insight into the scale and majesty of the ancient high forests growing 5000 years ago.

Against all odds, specialist craftspeople successfully milled and dried this remarkable discovery, preserving it at full length and in perpetuity.

Discovered in the year of Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee, it is now known as the ‘Jubilee Oak’. This is one of Britain’s most important oak trees—not just for its vast size and ancient provenance, but for the work of art now fashioned from it.

The planks from the Jubilee Oak have been used to create a unique artefact to form part of our national heritage—‘A Table for the Nation’.

An official inscription carved at one end of the Fenland Black Oak Table acknowledges the tree’s discovery in 2012, in commemoration of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee year. At the opposite end, a second inscription acknowledges the table’s completion in 2022, in commemoration of Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee year.

D I S C O V E R Y

During routine cultivations in the spring of 2012 on a farm in the Wissington Fens of south-west Norfolk, a 13.2 metre section of a 5,000 year old subfossilised Black Oak tree was unearthed.

“I have been processing Black Oaks for over 30 years but when I saw the Jubilee Oak it took my breath away.

It was not just its size but the degree of preservation; there was no evidence of insect infestation or fungal disease, and large areas of bark were still intact.

It was not until I was asked which end was the canopy and which end was the root ball that we began to fully appreciate what we were looking at. This branchless tree was so parallel that we realised it was only a small section of a much, much bigger tree.

This explained the very unusual degree of preservation; when it fell, this vast tree would have smashed and crushed everything in its way before burying itself deep into the peat—where it lay, undisturbed, for the next 5000 years.”

Hamish Low
Expert on the preservation of Black Oak and project leader

S A W M I L L I N G

With the aid of an excavator, two telehandlers (a type of telescopic forklift) and the longest sawmill in the country, some of the rarest planks in the world were milled from the Jubilee Oak. This posed several challenges.

They could not find a mobile sawmill in this country capable of milling such a huge tree, so a generous Canadian company via their UK agent loaned one. It proved easier to build the sawmill on site in the field rather than move the tree itself.

Since the Jubilee Oak had been buried for over 5000 years it was impossible to predict what this tree might gift to them when ‘opened up’. Nothing could have prepared them for what this extraordinary tree yielded. Ten magnificent, breathtakingly beautiful, consecutive planks unlike anything ever seen before.

D R Y I N G

This was the most difficult challenge: Black Oak needs to be dried artificially and very slowly. Over a period of nine months, 1795 litres of water were extracted from the planks in a purpose-built dehumidifying kiln. The planks shrank to almost half their thickness, a quarter of their width and even 150 millimetres in length.

The drying process reduced the weight of the planks by a staggering 1.8 metric tonnes!

Once successfully dried out, the Jubilee Oak planks became even more precious and a charitable trust was established to protect them, the Fenland Black Oak CIO.

D E S I G N

A multi disciplined design team was assembled under the direction of a lead designer to decide how best to preserve this incredibly rare discovery. So why did they decide on a table?

With a table, the Jubilee Oak planks could be kept at their full length and at the perfect height to be seen and touched in all their glory. Their majesty can be seen, unimpeded, from any angle.

As well as existing as a sculptural object in its own right, a table has many practical functions, such as for dining, meetings and display. A table can also be of huge symbolic value at important summits, traditional ceremonies and state events. It is, in so many ways, a perfect gift to the nation.

The design team had to come up with innovative and creative solutions to meet the various challenges of the design brief—not least that the table should be able to fold-down to mitigate its huge size, and that it should satisfy all the conservation concerns relating to the historical buildings in which it is likely to be housed.

C R E A T I O N

The planks were retained at full length and many new techniques were developed to work on their unprecedented size. The ‘River Joint’, for example, was created to not only reflect an important Fenland feature, but by using the shape and character of each individual plank, the scale of this tree can be fully appreciated at a glance. The unique visual details of the top are inspired entirely by the tree itself.

U N D E R S T R U C T U R E

The table’s understructure is made from patinated phosphor bronze, (archaeologists refer to the centuries after 3000BC as transitional between Stone and Bronze ages). Aside from its strength and beauty, it also helps with the smooth dismantling and rebuilding of the table as it moves from location to location.

The bronze hinges allow the two outer planks to be folded down, reducing the width of the table to just 900 millimetres, and the entire structure can then be wheeled effortlessly and silently by just two people to the side of a room and used as a serving table or for display. The River Joints are stunning when exposed in this way.

Reference: https://www.thefenlandblackoakproject.co.uk/our-story

Dame Judi Dench brands Harrogate Water’s plans to chop down 500 trees to expand its factory ‘an act of environmental vandalism’

Dame Judi’s comments were read out at a meeting of North Yorkshire Council’s planning committee on October 28.

The star, who is originally from York, said: ‘To destroy Rotary Wood for corporate expansion would be an act of environmental vandalism – erasing a thriving habitat planted by children and nurtured by a community that believed in protecting our future.’

Green Party Councillor Arnold Warneken, who has been involved with the campaign for four years, shared the comments on behalf of Dame Judi.

He said the actress has strong local ties, including her late father working as a GP in the area, adding: ‘It helped draw attention to a wider audience, so it was very useful in that respect.’

Dame Judi has other links to Harrogate. She is a long-time patron of Harrogate Theatre, as well as a patron of the Woodland Trust, and has consistently used her platform to champion environmental issues. Last year, she joined forces with fellow actress Emma Thompson to call on the government to back nature recovery through Chris Packham’s Restore Nature Now campaign.

Richard Hall, the managing director of Harrogate Spring Water, told councillors the expansion plans would create 50 jobs.

He added: ‘The central matter of concern raised during the consultations was the loss of trees in Rotary Wood.

‘Our proposal will create a new area of publicly accessible woodland the same size as the area that would be lost.’

But Neil Hind, of the Save Rotary Wood campaign group, said: ‘The site forms part of the Pinewoods green corridor, a living woodland used daily for walking, education and wellbeing.

‘This is not just a spare piece of land. Its loss would be permanent and contrary to council policies.’

Councillor John Mann said more than 1,000 objections had been lodged – compared to just 11 expressions of support.

The committee ultimately voted to defer the decision until a future meeting when more information is available.

Councillors had asked for a clear explanation on how exactly the lost trees would be replaced – as well as more details on plans for a new wet woodland near the bottling plant.

Sarah Gibbs, a Rotary Wood Campaigner stated on her faceback page ‘Save Rotary Wood – Again’

“I want to thank everyone who turned up today with banners, masks, an awesome bat costume: Extinction Rebellion Harrogate Red Rebels, Zero Carbon Harrogate, Long Lands Common, the brilliant brass band, our four-legged furry friends, everyone. You are all AMAZING!

Though this is not the outcome we wanted, it’s a opportunity to keep growing the community of resistance and continue to hold our Council to account.

Stay strong. Stay connected. Watch this space for possible future meetings to discuss next steps.

HISTORY

Over the past five years, the Harrogate and District Green Party have been working with local groups and the community to stop the development of community land by a plastic water bottling factory. It’s a campaign based on David and Goliath. The local community is trying to stop an international conglomerate from taking much used public land to the detriment of the environment and local ecosystem.

In 2017, Harrogate Sping Water (owned by Danone) was granted outline planning permission to extend their factory into Rotary Wood. Harrogate Borough Council owns this established woodland, an environmental and community asset. In 2019, they applied to extend this extension to cover two acres of the woods, which was rejected again in 2021 after a fight by the local community and TV presenter Julia Bradbury.

References: Daily Mail, Daily Express, The Green Party, Facebook Action Group.

What happens when a group of people sends daily love and appreciation to a tree?

A small group of 8 people did just that – spending 10 minutes each day for 6 days, sitting quietly near Sugar Gum Maple Tree #4 and directing their love and appreciation toward it.

The result? The tree appeared to respond! (Check out the graphic in the video and look at the black trace on the graph!) Tree #4 showed a noticeable increase in the amplitude of its circadian rhythm – suggesting a dynamic, living connection between human emotion and the natural world.

This is part of HeartMath Institute’s Tree Rhythms: A Citizen Science Project – exploring the energetic link between people, nature, and all living systems. Learn more at https://treerhythms.net.

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“The forest princely robes receives,
Inwrought with gold and crimson leaves,
With fairy tints and brilliant dyes
Like sunset’s glory-lighted skies.”
~ Phebe A. Holder

Artwork by Tarn Ellis Art

There’s a message on the Autumn breeze
It whispers softly through the trees
Of leaves that dance in shades of gold,
A tale of change, both bright and bold.

The birds are gathered, taking flight,
To warmer lands, away from sight,
They leave behind the chilly air,
In search of sunshine, warmth, and care.

The fields are ripe with harvest’s yield,
As nature offers up its shield,
The flowers bow, their colours fade,
In restful slumber, they’re remade.

The trees stand silent, bare and wise,
As sunsets paint the evening skies,
This season’s growth has run its course,
Each creature’s journey from its source.

So let us too take time to rest,
As nature has given up it’s best,
And now we adhere to Autumns flow,
Of understanding and letting go ..

C.E. Coombes.

Serendipity Corner

Glasgow’s “Argyle Street Ash” has been crowned Tree of the Year 2025 after being nominated by the public as this year’s wildcard entry.

The tree, which stands tall on one of the Scottish city’s busiest roads, was named the winner of the Woodland Trust’s competition on Thursday after several weeks of public voting.

Earlier this year, a panel of experts selected nine trees of differing ages and species for the shortlist, while the public were allowed to choose a 10th as a wildcard.

Those nominated included an oak that may have inspired Virginia Woolf and a lime representing peace in Northern Ireland, a nod to this year’s theme of “rooted in culture”.

But it was the Argyle Street Ash that pulled in the most votes after being put forward by David Treanor – an arborist from Glasgow who has been managing the tree in recent years.

Mr Treanor pointed to its reference in the 1951 book by journalist James Cowan, From Glasgow’s Treasure Chest, in which he describes the Argyle Street tree as “quite the most graceful ash I have seen”.

This quote hangs framed in the pub opposite the tree, which hosts Gaelic live music events.

As the winner of the competition, the ash will now progress to represent the UK in the European Tree of the Year finals in early 2026.

The Glasgow tree narrowly beat the “King of Limbs” oak that inspired a Radiohead album, and the photographic “Lonely Tree”, which sits on the edge of the Llyn Padarn lake in North Wales.

The ancient “Lady Jane Grey Oak” in Leicester’s Bradgate Park, and a majestic cedar with low-sweeping boughs where The Beatles were photographed at London’s Chiswick House, completed the top five in the rankings.

The Woodland Trust said the “rooted in culture” theme was chosen to celebrate how trees shape the cultural landscape in literature, music, poetry and art.

Adam Cormack, head of campaigning at the charity, said: “Trees really matter to people, and this is clear from the response we’ve seen to the Argyle Street Ash.

“Trees inspire us to write stories and create art, whilst connecting us to cultural legacies and a sense of place.

“We encourage people to notice and enjoy the trees around them, and learn more about how they benefit us – from boosting biodiversity and wellbeing, to mitigating the effects of climate change.”

Laura Chow, head of charities at People’s Postcode Lottery, which supported the competition, said, These trees, rooted in culture, show how valued they are by their communities, and the significant importance they have in our wider cultural history.

“What a worthy winner the Argyle Street Ash is.”

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Historic West Midlands woodlands walk opened for the first time in nearly 1,000 years with 190,000 new trees.

A new woodland walk granting access to previously private woodlands has been opened by Bradford Estates as part of work to make the estates more accessible to the public.

The ‘Bradford Walk’ was officially unveiled by Sir William Worsley, chair of the Forestry Commission, on Wednesday September 24th.

The estates, bordering Shropshire and Staffordshire, are home to historic woodlands which cover almost 10 per cent of the land and for nearly 1,000 years access has been private.

The new walk, however, now offers public access – combining 10 miles of newly-created permissive paths with existing paths to enhance connectivity.

Alexander Newport, managing director of Bradford Estates, said: “We want to open up our beautiful estates in a sensitive way and create connectivity for both native wildlife and the local community as well as visitors to the area.

“In these times, when people are calling for more green space, access to nature has never been more important.

“As an organisation, we are also acutely aware of the Climate Emergency and believe this scheme will contribute towards the nation’s net zero targets.”

The new walk is part of Bradford Estates’ 100-Year Plan, championed by custodians Alexander and Eliza Newport, and the project integrates historic woodland with newly planted areas.

More than 190,000 new trees have been planted to create connectivity through the landscape for people and wildlife – with the planting and access funded through the English Woodland Creation Offer (EWCO), administered by the Forestry Commission.

The project supports Bradford Estates’ aim to increase woodland cover on its landholding to 20 per cent over the next 15 years to help capture carbon dioxide as a contribution towards the UK’s net zero targets.

The planting of the trees was completed by the end of the 2025 planting season with the trails construction completed subsequently along with wayfinding, gates and other infrastructure.

In an innovative approach, the planting has been entirely plastic-free. Bradford Estates invested nearly double the usual costs to use eco-friendly tree guards made from cotton and pine resin to help eliminate plastic from the environment and reduce the CO2 generated through manufacturing and transportation.

‘The Bradford Walk’ – which according to the Forestry Commission has become the longest public path funded via the England Woodland Creation Offer (EWCO) scheme – also aims to address the current fragmentation of public rights of way in the area, creating a cohesive network linking pleasure grounds, carriageways and heritage assets such as Weston Park, Boscobel House and Tong village.

Eliza Newport, of Bradford Estates and trustee of The Tree Council, said: “During Covid, we walked the forests and lakes on the estates and were inspired to find a way to open up these beautiful natural spaces for the community to enjoy. We wanted to reverse the trend of declining tree planting, maintain the lush forests and restore woodland habitats for today and for future generations to enjoy.

“It has taken almost five years, but we are proud to see this vision come to life.”

Keith Jones, area director at the Forestry Commission, said: “It’s fantastic to see the new woodland being planted at Bradford Estates. This project is an example of how landowners can play a key role in helping to achieve the national target for woodland cover in England and net zero target.

“The expansion of timber-producing woodlands, alongside improvements in water quality, nature recovery, and river ecosystems, is incredibly positive, as is offering the local community easier access to the woodlands and surrounding countryside.”

Future plans for the permissive trails include parking facilities, art installations and possibly a playground, establishing a community facility that will enable Bradford Estates to hold events and other activities.

Anyone wanting to find out more about the project can email enquiries@bradford-estates.co.uk