On Saturday 21st March we are running an ancient tree recording day at Tring Park. Come along and learn how to identify ancient and veteran trees, discover the key features, what needs to be recorded and equipment needed. Our aim is to record ancient and veteran...
Guy Kent joined the estate team in January to help provide on-site management support to Langley Vale Wood, the largest of the Trust’s Centenary Woods in Epsom, and other sites in Surrey. 2020 will be a busy year for the First World War Centenary Wood...
We bought the Hucking Estate in 1997 and began our ground-breaking restoration project. Twenty years later the people of Kent and beyond rallied in their thousands to donate to our urgent appeal to bring a slice of disused farmland next to Hucking safely into our...
Volunteers at Hucking Estate found this interesting spectacle in the site community orchard last week - we believe it could be Trentepohlia sp. (an algae rather than lichen, but has a symbiotic relationship with lichen) which is more commonplace on ash bark and other trees. ...
[caption id="attachment_15189" align="alignright" width="440"] Wassail procession at Langley Vale Wood. Photo credit: Tish Johnson[/caption] On Sunday 12 January volunteers from Langley Vale Wood picked up their pots and pans, embellished their stakes and wooden pegs and went wassailing to scare away evil spirits and wake the...
Marden Park is set on the narrow plateau and slopes of the North Downs in East Surrey, close to the village of Woldingham. The 67.8 hectare site is a mix of ancient and secondary wood with pockets of chalk grassland. Ash dominates the canopy in...
Last month we said our temporary goodbyes to Alissa Wilson who is our Site Manager for Surrey and West Kent as she went on maternity leave. We wish Alissa all the very best for her pending new arrival. The team is delighted to announce that...
On 3 and 4 December, 70 Fever-Tree staff worked hard to plant 1,500 trees in the South Downs. The landowner, also the co-founder of Fever-Tree, recently purchased a large farming estate in the heart of the South Downs National Park, which is in our Treescape area. The South...
As we approach the end of the year, Langley Vale Wood site manager, Simon Bateman-Brown, talks us through the latest news and updates from the wood. Planning We’ve now submitted a range of conditions to the relevant local authorities to hopefully be discharged. These include archaeological works,...
Despite being densely populated, the South East region remains highly wooded and rich in ancient woodland. Each year we work with volunteers to deliver high standards of woodland management for people and wildlife across 115 Woodland Trust sites covering approximately 3,300 hectares of woodland. [caption id="attachment_14527"...