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North West

Listed below are some individual ancient trees of interest, together with sites where there are concentrations of ancient and other veteran trees. We have only included sites which we believe are open to the public but recommend that you check before visiting


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Beeston Castle, Cheshire

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Borrowdale

The whole landscape is littered with many hundreds of ancient ash pollards which the National Trust have been continuing to pollard from the last couple decades.  Ash historically provided valuable winter fodder for the upland sheep so were re-pollarded on a short rotation.

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Dunham Massey, Cheshire

Dunham Massey is a stunning parkland full of ancient and veteran trees, avenues and lots of fallow deer, all of which makes for a delightful visit, especially for keen photographers.  The deadwood habitat is particularly rich, with many standing and fallen dead and decaying trees giving life to countless species. 

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Glencoyne, Cumbria

Wood pasture site with excellent oak, alder, ash and hawthorn.

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Great Mell Fell

The National Trust’s Mell Fell is an excellent example of ancient wood pasture, for which the Lake District is much famed. There are excellent examples of lapsed pollards, ancient maiden trees as well as walking trees.

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Langdale

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Tatton

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Thorneythwaite

Thorneythwaite, is an excellent example of a lapsed upland wood pasture within the National Trust's greater Borrowdale estate. The ATF have been in consultation with the National Trust regarding using Thorneythwaite as an exemplar property highlighting modern methods of rejuvenating the wood pasture and lapsed pollards.

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Troutbeck

The Lake District is one of the top locations in all of Europe for the extensive landscape scale wood pastures full of ancient pollard trees and Troutbeck forms a valuable part of this mosaic.

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Ullswater

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