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| *****SWAAG_ID***** | 931 | | Date Entered | 01/05/2016 | | Updated on | 06/06/2017 | | Recorded by | Tim Laurie | | Category | Tree Site Record | | Record Type | Botanical HER | | SWAAG Site | Low Whita | | Site Access | Private | | Record Date | 01/01/2005 | | Location | Low Whita | | Civil Parish | Grinton | | Brit. National Grid | SE 00700 97800 | | Geology | SE 400700 497800 centre | | Record Name | Horse Pasture Wood. A rare fragment of uncleared relict Dale Side woodland. | | Record Description | Horse Pasture Wood is a fragment of the mixed deciduous woodland which would certainly have once been widespread on the calcareous drift covered lower slopes of Swaledale, now fully deforested. Protected behind a shelter belt of scots pine, a community of mixed deciduous woodland has survived with alder, birch and ash predominant but with hazel, crab, bird cherry, hawthorn also. Several very large coppiced alders and birches are present. The field layer includes areas of bluebells, ramsons, and other indicators of ancient woodland. | | Dimensions | See photos |
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