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5 acres, Wetherby, North Yorkshire, West Yorkshire
For Sale - Fixed Price £89,000

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Set in the north-eastern corner of West Woods Plantation, Bramham, Clifford Moor Copse is a very interesting and diverse broadleaf woodland. Trees of mixed ages and lots of ground flora ‘indicator’ plants give clues that this site has been wooded for a long time. It is classed as Replanted Ancient Woodland.

Up on the limestone ridge that sits above the Wharfe valley, the land in Clifford Moor Copse slopes very gently to the west. Good stone tracks lead to the ride-stop entrance surrounded by tall beech trees (one a copper beech), lots of coppiced hazel, oak, some hybrid poplar, birch, sycamore, the odd larch and a few Scots pine trees. There are also some ash trees which are in decline from ash die-back. These could potentially be harvested as a home firewood resource; ash makes brilliant firewood, or left as valuable standing deadwood habitat.

A path leads off to the right of the ride-stop, past birch and oak trees, and past a rustic bench situated with a view down a grass-filled glade. Following through this area, the way heads through the trees following deer trails, into an area of oak plantation, now around 30-40 years old. Alternatively keep to a route connecting the bright open spaces, until the band of trees towards the western edge of the wood is reached. Here, there’s a density of old coppiced hazel, overstood with oak and ash trees and the ground is carpeted with a rich tapestry of woodland flora including bluebells, wood anemone, dog’s mercury, wild garlic, native ferns, mosses, stitchwort and woodland grasses. Whilst higher up in the canopy wild rose and scented honeysuckle arch and scramble for sunlight in the shrub layer. In this area of the wood some old ponds are marked on the map. With the limestone soils being porous, these only hold water at the wettest times of the year when they will be a draw for wildlife.

At the western edge, where the wood meets farmland, a wide grassy ride runs south west to north east The ditch, the centre of which is the true boundary line, is flanked by characterful coppiced hedgerow trees such as hawthorn, field maple and hazels, with glimpses of the farmland beyond are framed by their trunks.

This is a lovely, secluded woodland, sheltered and private feeling.