LEI Country

Oaks in Charnwood

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We have for many years used a small area under this banner which is actually a scout camp with a strip of fairly complicated woodland running up hill to other areas which we hope to incorporate and use. Nearby is Charley Wood, 27 hectares owned by the Leicestershire & Rutland Trust since 1995 and now open to the public. On the same hill area are Gisborne's Gorse (not open to the public), Charnwood Lodge (the Rough), Timberwood Hill and Warren Hills also owned by the Trust with different degrees of access formalised under the CRoW Act legislation. We have used Warren Hills in the past.

Charley Wood is actually two distinct woods. Cat Hill Wood is documented back to 1260 and Burrow Wood certainly as far back as the 1500s.