Coed y Ciliau

Upland oakwood dominated by sessile oak growing on thin acidic soils on a very steep west facing slope. This wood occupies the central part of a north-south ridge which forms a prominent landscape feature overlooking the Dulas valley. It is the only substantial fragment of native woodland surviving on this ridge. Most of the wood is on dry freely draining soils with ground vegetation dominated by bilberry and wavy hair grass. Several large wet flushes are present (sub-cmpt 1B) with ash and alder together with plants indicative of wetter and more fertile soil.