Blackbank Wood

Blackbank Wood, purchased by The Woodland Trust during 1985, is long rectangular woodland located approximately three kilometres west of Longtown in north Cumbria, some two kilometres from the Scottish border. The woodland and surrounding land is extremely flat being part of the Solway plain and only 20m above sea level. Farming dominates most of the area though the Ministry of Defence owns much of the adjacent land to the south. The underlying soils are mostly deep peat and as a result there are a number of peat extraction companies in the locality.