Garth Wood
| Garth Wood, gifted to The Woodland Trust in 1988 is a small square woodland located in an urban setting on the eastern outskirts of Keswick and extends to 0.43ha. To the east and west houses and gardens bound the woodland, to the north Eleven Trees Road and to the south, unimproved grassland. A squeeze style providing pedestrian access form Eleven Trees Road and a welcome sign are located centrally on the northern boundary. The woodland is used predominantly by local residents and neighbours.
The woodland can be split into two distinct areas by a diagonal line running from the north west corner to the south east corner. Above this line (to the north east) the woodland is made up of mature and semi mature broadleaves thought to be planted circa 1870 the species being sessile oak, beech, sycamore, small leaved lime, wild cherry, silver birch, sweet chestnut, red oak and holly. The shrub layer below the mature trees is made up of strong natural regeneration of holly, beech and where light allows ash, wild cherry and oak. Sycamore, rowan and hawthorn were also noted to be present though in fewer numbers, along with one elderberry and one yew. The herb layer, though sparse beneath the heavy beech canopy is fairly diverse and includes ivy, bramble, wild raspberry, pignut, lesser celandine, common dock, greater plantain, nipplewort, rose-bay willowherb and ramsons as well as some small groups of bluebells, cultivated daffodils near the northern boundary and a number of grasses. The remaining area of land to the south west, originally unimproved pasture land, was planted in 1988. The trees are now well established and consist of ash, sessile oak, wild cherry, silver birch, holly, horse chestnut, bird cherry and rowan with hazel and hawthorn particularly along the southern boundary. Natural regeneration consisting mainly of ash and oak with some beech and rowan is strong along the peripheries of the mature trees and where canopy shading naturally reduces grass competition. Grasses including common couch, sheep’s fescue, annual meadow grass, Yorkshire fog and tufted hair grass dominate the herb layer though bramble, wild raspberry, rose-bay willow herb, plantains and lesser celandine were also evident. A small stone monument, erected in memory of the donor, is located beside the main track where it enters the younger trees.
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