Despite recent heavy rain and windy weather, volunteers from Butcher’s Wood have continued their coppicing work this winter to help improve the woodland ecology at the site. Butchers Wood is a small (7.12ha) ancient semi-natural woodland at the northern boundary of the South Downs National Park...
[caption id="attachment_16129" align="alignleft" width="225"] Simon and Tish with their farewell cakes[/caption] Volunteers from Langley Vale Wood bid farewell to site manager Simon Bateman-Brown on Thursday 20 February, as he leaves the Woodland Trust for pastures new at Kent Wildlife Trust. Simon has been with the Trust since...
Sainsbury’s Chief Executive Officer and senior directors were out in force at Langley Vale Wood last week coppicing in one of its areas of ancient woodland, Little Hurst Wood. We were pleased to showcase Langley Vale Wood – England’s First World War Centenary Wood - helping...
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...