Geograph - photograph every grid square

In 2006 the National Trust acquired land at Tilhill, including the area shown as Foxbury Plantation on the 1:50,000 map. The previous owners retained the rights to extract the commercial timber, after which the NT will restore a New Forest open heathland environment. The plantation area within this square has seen some of the first clearances, with the conifers removed and only a few deciduous trees (mainly silver birch) left standing in spring 2008. Some dramatic changes to the landscape will unfold as new geographs are added to this and the neighbouring squares.