Lamarsh Hill Wood

The woodland was planted in 1966 with oak, beech and Scots pine. The latter acted as a nurse crop to the hardwood trees, but most of the conifers have now been felled. In their place are several hundred broadleaved trees suitable for coppicing (e.g. hazel, ash, sweet chestnut and maple). The aim is ultimately to create conditions of ancient woodland through coppicing of the understorey by rotation while the oak and ash form a canopy.

Foxes, badgers and many smaller mammals have been recorded in this area and a wide variety of fungi can be seen especially in the autumn.

Soil conditions vary considerably in the wood and for much of the year the differences in ground vegetation at the top and bottom of the slope are apparent.