2010

SU4616 : Itchen Country Park nature trail

taken 14 years ago, near to Southampton Airport, Hampshire, England

Itchen Country Park nature trail
Itchen Country Park nature trail
This woodland has been coppiced for centuries to supply the local community with firewood, building and craft materials. This form of management also creates excellent conditions for wildlife and so is continued today. Trees such as Ash, Hazel and Alder are cut to the ground in winter leaving a coppice stool from which new shoots sprout and grow into thin straight poles. Taller trees, known as standards, are left to grow to maturity providing larger timber. Today the wood is sold to make paper or charcoal.

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Category: Nature trail
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Woodland [4] · Local [2] · Trail [2] · Trees [2] ·
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SU4616, 15 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
dinglefoot   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Monday, 18 January, 2010   (more nearby)
Submitted
Tuesday, 19 January, 2010
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SU 468 165 [100m precision]
WGS84: 50:56.7840N 1:20.0608W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SU 469 165
View Direction
WEST (about 270 degrees)
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