Whitemill Common & Roughets Wood

Whitemill Common and Roughets Wood are situated near to the village of Mynydd Bach and surround the Whitemill Water Treatment Works. Mounton Brook flows through the site, separating Roughets Wood to the north from Whitemill Common to the south. Roughets Wood is included on the Ancient Woodland Inventory but was largely replanted with larch and poplar in the mid 20th Century. At the same time Whitemill Common, which probably supported open habitat at the time, was planted with spruce, larch and a lesser amount of beech.