LEI Country

Old Dry Hills and Harry's Park

Location plan for Old Dry Hills and Harry's Park car park - SP947863 - view in Multimap or Streetmap format.
Location plan for Fermyn car park - SP952850 - view in Multimap or Streetmap format.

This is a large block of largely typical Northamptonshire plantation woodland. It is probably approaching 200 hectares in size. The south east end where we normally start any events is actually Old Dry Hills and is of a different nature to Harry's Park which makes up the rest of the area. Harry's Park is a fairly tangled and very boggy plantation with a myriad of ditch systems. Whilst we have used it for larger events it is not very attractive woodland and logistically it is difficult as we normally have to walk people in from the nearby Fermyn Woods.

It is all owned by the Forestry Commission and at one time we approached C N Spencer Ltd (Sawmills) of Brigstock to add their adjoining Laundimer Woods as this would give us a link through to Stanion Woods but they were not receptive. We have also approached Fermyn Hall for a link in the opposite direction to Fermyn Wood CP but again without success.

Without links into other woodlands this site of only modest interest and we are unlikely to expend much money, time or effort in updating the map.