WOODCRAFT Folk’s Biblins Youth Campsite have just planted its Sycamore Gap sapling after being nominated as one the recipients of the National Trust’s 49 ‘Trees of Hope’.

Woodcraft Folk was one of 500 applications for the 49 saplings – one to represent each foot in height that the tree was at the time of felling.

The location of the sapling was chosen by staff at Biblins Youth Campsite after which centre manager Cat Crimmins said: “The chosen site is in a publicly accessible space, close to the River Wye and in the background is our version of the gap, which made the original Sycamore tree so iconic.”

At Sunday’s ceremony, the digging of the hole and planting of the tree was given over to the young members from the local group of Woodcraft Folk Elfins.

Biblins is situated in mature anc

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