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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.
