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Legacy woods in central England

Gifts in wills have been instrumental in rescuing threatened woods and creating new areas of native woodland across the UK.

This section highlights examples of woods in central England which have benefited from the foresight of those who kindly left a gift in their will to the Woodland Trust.

Banovallum Carr

Size: 20.73 acres (8.39 ha) Near: Horncastle, Lincolnshire

Big Round Green

Size: 1.14 acres (0.46 ha) Near: Trapps Lane, Chesham, Buckinghamshire

Bow Wood

Size: 26.76 acres (10.83 ha) Near: Lea Bridge, Derbyshire

Bunkers Hill

Size: 102.50 acres (41.48 ha) Near: Nr Stourbridge, Staffordshire

Burroughs Wood

Size: 90.44 acres (36.6 ha) Near: Ratby, Leicestershire

Castle Camps Millennium Wood

Size: 12.73 acres (5.15 ha) Near: Castle Camps, Haverhill, Cambridgeshire

Coton Wood

Size: 81.52 acres (32.99 ha) Near: Coton in the elms, Derbyshire

Danson's Wood

Size: 12.45 acres (5 ha) Near: Whitchurch, Shropshire

Duddas Wood

Size: 23.62 acres (9.56 ha) Near: Derrington, Staffordshire

Earl's Lane Wood

Size: 4.37 acres (1.77 ha) Near: Cleeve Prior, Worcestershire

Eoves Wood

Size: 18.78 Acres (7.6 ha) Near: Hampton, Worcestershire

Everdon Stubbs

Size: 71.39 acres (28.89 ha) Near: Daventry, Northamptonshire

Felicity's Wood

Size: 21.67 acres (8.77 ha) Near: Woodhouse Eaves, Leicestershire

George Henry Wood

Size: 80.31 acres (32.5 ha) Near: Stretton, Rutland

Gorse Field, Harris Grove & Ball's Meadow

Size: 33.85 acres (13.7 ha) Near: Oakham, Rutland

Harnser Wood

Size: 10.92 acres (4.42 ha) Near: Elsing, Norfol

Heartwood Forest

Size: 857.65 acres (347.08 ha) Near: Sandridge, Hertfordshire

Highbury Fields

Size: 58.02 acres (23.48 ha) Near: Redbrook, Gloucestershire

Lineover Wood

Size: 123.58 acres (50.01 ha) Near: Dowdeswell, Gloucestershire

Little Doward Woods

Little Doward Woods Size: 203.07 acres (82.18 ha) Near: Wyastone Leys, Nr Whitchurch, Herefordshire

Londonthorpe Wood

Size: 154.47 acres (62.51 ha) Near: Grantham, Lincolnshire

Moccas Hill Wood

Size: 109.69 acres (44.39 ha) Near: Dorstone, Herefordshire

Nant Mill Wood

Size: 21.94 acres (8.88 ha) Near: Coedpoeth Nr Wrexham

Northfield Wood

Size: 81.92 acres (33.15 ha) Near: Onehouse, Suffolk

Old Wood

Size: 230.28 acres (93.19 ha) Near: Skellingthorpe, Lincolnshire

Pepper Wood

Size: 132.99 acres (53.82 ha) Near: Fairfield, near Bromsgrove; Worcestershire

Priestley Wood

Size: 58.05 acres (23.49 ha) Near: Barking, Needham Market, Suffolk

Reynolds

Size: 242.06 acres (97.96 ha) Near: Brogborough, Bedfordshire

Shillbrook Wood

Size: 8.99 acres (3.64 ha) Near: Bampton, Witney, Oxfordshire

Springdale Wood

Size: 3.48 acres (1.41 ha) Near: East Bridgford, Nottinghamshire

Springfield Copse

Size: 6.13 acres (1.41 ha) Near: Strines, Marple, Greater Manchester

Tattershall Carrs

Size: 71.46 acres (28.92 ha) Near:Tattershall, Lincolnshire

The Dingle

Size: 7.68 acres (3.11 ha) Near: Middleton Scriven, Shropshire

Top Ardles Wood

Size: 11.91 acres (4.82 ha) Near: Ravensthorpe, Northamptonshire

Uffmoor Wood

Size: 209.64 acres (84.84 ha) Near: Halesowen, Worcestershire

Willesley Wood

Size: 140.21 acres (56.74 ha) Near: Ashbe De La Zouch, Leicestershire

Wragby

Size: 234.92 acres (95.07 ha) Near: Wragby, Lincolnshire

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