Woodland for sale

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An attractive birch wood with good access and a sizeable hardstanding area at its heart, ideal for a motorhome.

Anson Wood lies in a larger gated broadleaf woodland in the lowlands of the Northumberland countryside. The bustling market town of Morpeth with its wide range of facilities is three miles to the northeast and the A1 is ten minutes away giving easy access from north and south.

The woodland and access to it overlies part of the former Tranwell Airfield. Known as RAF Morpeth in WW2, it housed the No. 4 Air Gunnery School, with trainees flying to nearby Druridge Bay to practice live fire. Nature has convincingly reclaimed the area in the intervening years and apart from the taxiway there is little evidence of its former use.

Anson Wood is dominated by elegant silver birch stems within which a number of other broadleaves species are scattered including oak and rowan, plus some willow on the woodland fringe. We also noted a variety of regenerating saplings along with a few sub-canopy woody shrubs. The woodland floor is a mix of grasses, blackberry and fern along with some seasonal fungi.

The wood is served by a well-found concrete track, this being the taxiway for the former airfield. This leads to a substantial area of hardstanding (some of which is overgrown with grass) near the centre of the wood, offering an outstanding location for overnighting in a caravan or motorhome. It also offers a handy location for processing forest produce.

The wider woodland is host to a variety of birds. On our visit we noted kestrels, buzzards, sparrowhawks and tawny owls along with a range of woodland songsters in the tree canopy.

With excellent access and generous hardstanding, Anson has many appealing characteristics for the amenity and recreational woodlander.

Our Forester'sThoughts

Alastair says...

"My first job would be to clean off the full extent of the hardstanding. A little landscaping adjacent would then make this a most attractive overnight locus for caravan or camper (with cheap fuel and LPG available close by in Morpeth).

A light thin of the birch would provide plenty of wood fuel for the campfire. At the same time, I would want to control the brambles with a view to encouraging the ground flora and improving pedestrian access across the wood."

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