This area was open field until sometime after the 1930s. The wood is a plantation mainly of ash and the dog's mercury (Mercurialis perennis) shows a marked preference for the lower part of the slope towards the stream. There is little other ground flora in this area.
Uploaded to Geograph by Patrick Roper on 12 April 2008
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