Merry Hill

Merry Hill is a superb 76ha woodland creation site located between Harrow and Watford on the outskirts of London. Despite being only 15 miles from central London and surrounded by the outlying suburbs of Bushey, Oxhey and Carpenders Park, Merry Hill fits snugly into a surprisingly rural and wooded landscape. It was formerly an arable farm, acquired by the Trust in 1996. Subsequently over a third of the site was planted with native broadleaf trees between 1997 and 2000. Lying within Watling Chase Community Forest, over 62,000 trees and 3 miles of hedgerows were planted, part of which was under the Woodland Trust's 'Woods on Your Doorstep' millennium project.