Greendale Wood

The site was purchased in two stages. The first section was acquired by the Woodland Trust in May 2000. This occurred after a successful fundraising campaign, which was well supported and funded by local organisations and people, particularly the Lancashire Environmental Fund and Castle Cement. The wood was created as part of the Trust’s ‘Woods On Your Doorstep’ project, funded partly by the Millennium Commission to create 200 new woods throughout England & Wales to celebrate the millennium and provide new accessible woods for communities, with further funding from the Forestry Commission to aid the planting and maintenance. The second section was gifted to the Woodland Trust in April 2006.