Project

Great Avon Wood

“Finding land is the biggest challenge to increasing tree cover. Owning this land gives the new woodland permanence”.

Alex Stone, CEO Forest of Avon

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Year of first planting

2023

Year planting began

Project Area

45

Project Area (Ha)

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Organisation and Partners

Avon Needs Trees

Forest of Avon

Woodland Trust and West of England Combined Authority

National Lottery Heritage Fund

Funding Source

DEFRA Trees for Climate, Woodland Trust, WECA, ANT

Local Authority

Bath and North East Somerset

Location (Nearest Village)

Pensford, Somerset

Public Access

Yes

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Forest of Avon and Avon Needs Trees have jointly purchased this site. Since February 2022, volunteers have been helping to plant and care for up to 40,000 trees supplied by the Woodland Trust. The new woodlands will help to connect the Limestone-Link and the Dundry Downs providing new habitat corridors through a mixed landscape including new woodland creation, natural regenerating woodland and open grassland. Great Avon Wood will create habitat and food sources for wildlife such as Chiff Chaffs, Barn Owls, Kites, and Kestrels, and will also care for existing, species rich grassland, where butterflies and wildflowers can thrive. The new woodland will help reduce flood risk in the area by reducing and slowing the rainwater runoff from the land.

Primary Aim

Growing the Forest

Project Type

Health and Wellbeing New Hedgerows Recreation Street Trees

Benefits & Purposes

Carbon Sequestration Flood Mitigation Nature Recovery Wildlife Corridor

Volunteering for this project

With over 100 acres of land, this is one of the largest forest creation projects in England. And we need your help! In the coming years, we'll be planting and taking care of 40,000 trees and we need hundreds of volunteers to make it happen. Interested? Volunteer at Great Avon Wood here.

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