Ancient trees and sites to visit
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.
view detailsDunham 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.
view detailsFraternal Four, Borrowdale
The Fraternal Four were made famous by William Wordsworth in his poem ‘Yew-Trees’, written in 1803.
view detailsGlencoyne, Cumbria
Wood pasture site with excellent oak, alder, ash and hawthorn.
view detailsGreat 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.
view detailsThorneythwaite
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.
view detailsTroutbeck
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.
view detailsWaterloo Beech at Lowther
The Lowther Estate has a long and proud association with trees and woodlands which dates at least as far back as the first granting of Free Warren by Edward I in 1283, shortly followed by the emparking of two hundred acres of what must have been superlative pasture woodland to create the first Lowther Deer Park.
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