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***SWAAG_ID***	428
Date Entered	12/01/2012
Updated on	15/01/2012
Recorded by	Tim Laurie
Category	Tree Site Record
Record Type	Botanical HER
Site Access	Private
Record Date	09/01/2012
Location	Holgate Beck Woods. Part One. East Bank, Hollins Wood. .
Civil Parish	New Forest
Brit. National Grid	NZ 0631 0426
Altitude	275m
Geology	Drift covered stream banks and lower dale slopes on faulted chert and sandstone strata below the Underset Limestone.
Record Name	Holgate Beck Woods and. Rispey Wood. Mixed deciduous woodland dominated by Upland Birch Wood and Alder Wood
Record Description	Species reduced woodland on the East Bank of Holgate Beck (Wych Elm very scarce and only at lower end by Goats Bridge) above Goats Bridge with old coppiced alder and birch locally dominant, but with ash, elders, blackthorn, hawthorn and hazel coppice also. This ancient wood has been protected by rabbit proof fencing and the regeneration of alder and birch has been remarkable, see photos. This demonstrates the sense of natural regeneration and the case against mass planting of established native woodland.
Dimensions	See photographs
Geographical area	Swaledale North Bank Catchment
Common / Notable Species	Downy birch, alder, ash, blackthorn, hazel coppice,hawthorn, elders,
Additional Notes	Woodland on the West Bank of Holgate Beck (Rispey Wood) will be recorded seperately as Part Two.
Image 1 ID	2054 Click image to enlarge
Image 1 Description	Holgate beck Wood and Rispey Wood from the North.
Image 2 ID	2055 Click image to enlarge
Image 2 Description	Holgate beck Wood and Rispey Wood from the South with planted fir by the stream
Image 3 ID	2056 Click image to enlarge
Image 3 Description	Alderwood at Upper edge of the woodland. Large alder pollard with blackthorn.
Image 4 ID	2062 Click image to enlarge
Image 4 Description	Alders, cloned ring? Top edge of Hollins wood.
Image 5 ID	2061 Click image to enlarge
Image 5 Description	Mature Alders with massed seedlings, just visible top right.
Image 6 ID	2060 Click image to enlarge
Image 6 Description	Alder and blackthorn.
Image 7 ID	2059 Click image to enlarge
Image 7 Description	Alder coppice at abandoned stream channel below Hollin Brow.
Image 8 ID	2058 Click image to enlarge
Image 8 Description	Alder coppice at abandoned stream channel below Hollin Brow.
Image 9 ID	2057 Click image to enlarge
Image 9 Description	Alder coppice at abandoned stream channel below Hollin Brow.
Image 11 ID	2070 Click image to enlarge
Image 11 Description
Image 12 ID	2071 Click image to enlarge
Image 12 Description	Old birch on line of old drystone wall.
Image 13 ID	2066 Click image to enlarge
Image 13 Description	Solitary ash in pasture above Rispey Wood. A survivor.
Image 14 ID	2067 Click image to enlarge
Image 14 Description	The same ash showing gale damage.
Image 15 ID	2068 Click image to enlarge
Image 15 Description	The loss of limb but still standing, but for how long- until the next gale perhaps.
Image 16 ID	2069 Click image to enlarge
Image 16 Description	Ash, birch, hawthorn, blackthorn and elder- relicts of earlier woodland once more extensive.
Image 17 ID	2064 Click image to enlarge
Image 17 Description	Ancient laid ash. A relict hedgerow tree. Hedgerows preceded the parliamentary enclosures in Swaledale.
Image 18 ID	2065 Click image to enlarge
Image 18 Description	ASh. Detail.
Image 19 ID	2075 Click image to enlarge
Image 19 Description	Silver fir, Abies alba, five planted trees for landscape effect near the Beck.
Image 20 ID	2077 Click image to enlarge
Image 20 Description	Silver fir, Abies alba, five planted trees for landscape effect near the Beck.
Image 21 ID	2078 Click image to enlarge
Image 21 Description	Silver fir, Abies alba, five planted trees for landscape effect near the Beck.
Image 23 ID	2080 Click image to enlarge
Image 23 Description	Silver fir, Abies alba, five planted trees for landscape effect near the Beck.
Image 24 ID	2081 Click image to enlarge
Image 24 Description	Silver fir, Abies alba, five planted trees for landscape effect near the Beck.
Image 25 ID	2082 Click image to enlarge
Image 25 Description	Cone. Abies alba, showing squirrel activity.