BLUEBELL TIME
Welcome to the Blog of Cutler´s Wood, an Ancient Semi-Natural Woodland in the Kent North Downs AONB (Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty).

Cutler´s is 42 hectares (ca. 103 acres) of native broadleaf woodland managed primarily as wildlife and flora habitat but also to provide some timber from coppice rotation which is used for traditional fencing and woodfuel. Adjacent to Cutler´s Wood is Cutler´s Farm, made up of the farmyard with barns and 6 hectares (ca. 15 acres) of pasture land, which presently is used for sheep grazing.

Bordering onto the Forestry Commission´s Kings Wood to the south west, privately owned Stanner´s Wood to the north west, The Woodland Trust´s Park Wood to the north and the privately owned Ridge Wood and Felborough Wood to the east, this area makes up over 2000 acres of connected woodland and one of the largest woodlands in the South East of England. This whole area was once part of a royal hunting forest for deer and boar.








Edward Hasted´s map of Cutler´s area published 1798 but showing the area apparently around 1778. Cutler´s Farm seems not to have existed yet.

Sunday, 16 January 2011

Cutler´s Farm and Pasture Land

We have recently aquired Cutler´s Farmyard and a further 6 hectares (15 acres) of pasture land adjacent to Cutler´s Wood. At the moment the farmyard has two open sided barns, which we will use for storing and air drying timber from the woodland. The pasture land has not been grazed for several years and is, as such, slowly degenerating into scrub land. We hope, together with some farm neighbours, to return this land to semi-improved pasture for sheep grazing.
Posted by at

1 comment:

  1. Anonymous23 September 2014 at 18:16

    The Photos of ur woods look amazing, it's ashame public are not allowed to walk through them. Will that be changing n e time soon. £2 parking a day would b a reasonable price. Hint hint :)

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)