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| *****SWAAG_ID***** | 668 |
| Date Entered | 01/01/2013 |
| Updated on | 01/01/2013 |
| Recorded by | Tim Laurie |
| Category | Tree Site Record |
| Record Type | Botanical HER |
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| Site Access | Public Footpath |
| Record Date | 26/12/2012 |
| Location | Teesdale. Cotherstone. Banks of the River Balder. |
| Civil Parish | Cotherstone |
| Brit. National Grid | NZ 999 202 |
| Altitude | 200m |
| Geology | Stream cut ravine through Namurian Sandstone strata. |
| Record Name | Upland oak woodland on the banks of the River Balder below Hury Reservoir. Winter. |
| Record Description | This record is a photographic portrait of woodland and individual trees representative of the twoodland composition on both banks of the River Balder from The Hury Reservoir Dam downstream to the Tees. In addition several trees which grow in the hedgerows and pastures in Baldersdale are depicted. |
| Dimensions | See photofile |
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| Tree Site ID | 0 |
| Associated Site SWAAG ID | 0 |
| Additional Notes | Brief notes are provided as captions to the photographs. |
| Image 1 ID | 3884 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 1 Description | Ruined building on the north bank of the Balder near Cotherstone. An old Mill perhaps, but no sign of a mill race or wheel. |  |
| Image 2 ID | 3885 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 2 Description | Very large and ancient Crab Apple tree on line of a recently replanted hedgerow. |  |
| Image 3 ID | 3886 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 3 Description | Crab Apple tree, detail. |  |
| Image 4 ID | 3887 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 4 Description | Ancient coppiced oak at top edge of the woodland. North Bank. Very few really old trees survive , most of the trees here are secondary woodland trees of no great age or dimensions. |  |
| Image 5 ID | 3888 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 5 Description | Ancient coppiced oak at top edge of the woodland. Detail. |  |
| Image 6 ID | 3889 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 6 Description | Oak coppice, view down to the Balder. |  |
| Image 7 ID | 3890 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 7 Description | A second large coppice oak. |  |
| Image 8 ID | 3891 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 8 Description | Top edge of the wood with ash, holly, rowan and oak. |  |
| Image 9 ID | 3892 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 9 Description | Viaduct which carried the railway from Barnard Castle to Middleton in Teesdale crossing the River Balder. For other viaducts on this line crossing the Tees and the line across Stainmore, See 'Teesdale in Old Photographs'. Collected by Dennis Coggins.1989. Sutton Publishing. |  |
| Image 10 ID | 3894 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 10 Description | Viaduct which carried the railway from Barnard Castle to Middleton in Teesdale crossing the River Balder. For other viaducts on this line crossing the Tees and the line across Stainmore, See 'Teesdale in Old Photographs'. Collected by Dennis Coggins.1989. Sutton Publishing. |  |
| Image 11 ID | 3896 |
| Image 11 Description | The Balder woodlands downstream from the Viaduct. |  |
| Image 12 ID | 3897 |
| Image 12 Description | The Balder woodlands upstream from the Viaduct. |  |
| Image 13 ID | 3898 |
| Image 13 Description | Woodland edge with oak, ash, holly and hazel. |  |
| Image 14 ID | 3899 |
| Image 14 Description | Round barrow in pasture on north side of the Balder. |  |
| Image 15 ID | 3900 |
| Image 15 Description | Oak woodland by the footbridge across the Balder. |  |
| Image 16 ID | 3901 |
| Image 16 Description | Common cow-wheat (Melampyrum pratense)an ancient woodland indicator plant. |  |
| Image 17 ID | 3902 |
| Image 17 Description | Early trackway through the Balder woodland. |  |
| Image 18 ID | 3903 |
| Image 18 Description | Oak with polyypody fern. |  |
| Image 19 ID | 3905 |
| Image 19 Description | |  |
| Image 20 ID | 3906 |
| Image 20 Description | Hard fern. (Blechnum spicant) |  |
| Image 21 ID | 3907 |
| Image 21 Description | River Balder, view upstream from the footbridge. |  |
| Image 22 ID | 3908 |
| Image 22 Description | ?Broad Buckler Fern. |  |
| Image 23 ID | 3909 |
| Image 23 Description | Downy birch. |  |
| Image 24 ID | 3910 |
| Image 24 Description | Large multi stemmed holly at top edge of the woodland. |  |
| Image 25 ID | 3911 |
| Image 25 Description | The same woodland seen across pasture from the road to Baldersdale from Cotherstone. |  |
