AST WOOD, HEREFORDSHIRE

Ast Wood is is among the hundred largest of Herefordshire's remaining ancient broadleaved woods, and like most of them, is home to a rich variety of trees, shrubs, flowers & animals; including bluebells, herb paris, daffodils and dormice, which all thrive when sunlight regularly reaches into a wood as different parts of it are coppiced... Ast Wood has a long history of continuous coppice wood and timber production , but the late 20th century was a bad time for native English woodland; and like many others, this wood suffered neglect, the introduction of areas of planted non-native species, felling of about a third of it for agriculture in the 1970s, and use of the remainder for war games and four wheel driving practice... Products, history, wildlife, surveys, picture gallery and news about Ast Wood, Herefordshire

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