Key facts

site: Ladybeck Wood, Cumbria

size: 51 hectares

type: mixed broadleaf

species: wild cherry, sycamore, silver birch, sessile oak, crab apple, hawthorn, Scots pine, field maple, common alder, aspen, hazel, goat willow and native black poplar

date planted: December 2023

grants: Woodland Creation Planning Grant, England Woodland Creation Offer ( EWCO ), and Countryside Stewardship

main objective: to bolster existing farmer and timber enterprises with native woodland

Tree seedlings growing on Ladybeck Wood. Copyright Lowther Estate.

Ladybeck Wood in the Lake District is an inspiring landscape of seedlings and whips. In December 2023, around 51 hectares of new woodland was planted on Lowther Estate across 2 locations bordering the Eastern Lakes in Cumbria.

The newly planted

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